Description

Ce tawny est l'exemple parfait de l'équilibre entre la fraîcheur du fruit et l'élégance du bois. Un assemblage de vins élevés pendant une décennie en fûts de chêne qui se distingue par sa belle couleur brique et un profil aromatique intense où dominent les fruits rouges mûrs, les pruneaux et les notes de figue. À la dégustation, sa structure est douce et veloutée, révélant une délicieuse complexité de chocolat et de caramel qui se fond dans une finale persistante et équilibrée. Un porto incontournable, qui accompagne à merveille les desserts au chocolat noir ou les fromages bleus.

Fiche technique

Le domaine
Taylor's Port
Type de vin
Porto
Alcool
20.0% vol.
Cépage
Tinta barroca, Tinta roriz, Tinto cão, Touriga nacional, Touriga franca.
Origine
Porto

L'avis des experts

James Suckling:

Aromas of dried fruit, almonds and chocolate follow through to medium body. Medium sweet with light chocolate and dried plums. Drink now.

The Wine Advocate:

The NV 10 Year Old Tawny Port was bottled in 2014 with 105.23 grams per liter of residual sugar. Easily the 10 with the most weight in the Fladgate group's lineup this issue, it is a rather powerful 10 year old Tawny with plenty of pop, the biggest and baddest of the trio (Fonseca, Croft and this). There is very fine concentration of flavor for a 10 year old Tawny. If I had a quibble, the alcohol shows at times, especially early on and rather notably when drunk a little too warm. (Around 60 degrees Fahrenheit is a lot better than room temperature most of the time, to be sure, not just here.) Overall, the weight, complexity, mouth feel and grip on the finish still make this my favorite of the group of 10s submitted by Taylor Fladgate this issue, although it's close and there are some pros and cons. This comes with a bar top cork, i.e., not intended to be aged (although it most certainly can hold a couple of decades barring cork failures).