2000 Cockburn Porto Vintage, Portugal, Duoro, Wine Review

This is in a great place right now. Mature but still fresh with good fruit. Purple/ruby in color. The nose has chocolate, cherries, raisins and slight alcohol. On the palate, the chocolate covered cherries predominate but some raisin and a but underneath char. slight heat but just barely. Sweet but not a lot. Long finish. No hurry on this, it has a while but at a very pretty stage. Great on its own, it will work with cheese, or chocolate desserts.

Grade:

A-

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Vintage:

2000

Current Price:

$65.00USD

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1994 Cockburn Porto Vintage, Portugal, Douro, Wine Review

Vintage:

2018

Score:

Grade:

A-

Pop and pour, this may have benefited from a decant. From a 375ml. Purple in color. The nose has black cherries, some dust and a bit of chocolate. On the palate, the black cherries and chocolate carry thru. Nice texture. Finishes a bit hot but that was saved by serving it with vegan salted caramel pecan ice cream and a brownie. Over all this is very good if not at the top level of vintage ports.

Bartholomew Broadbent on Port, Madeira, and Great Quirky Wines from across the Globe

He's been named as one of the “fifty most influential people in the wine world" by Decanter Magazine . Bartholomew Broadbent The company he founded was nominated "Importer of the Year for 2005" by Wine Enthusiast . Prior to launching his own firm, he worked for a "Who's Who" list of the world's elite wine establishments with names like Harrod’s, Harvey’s Fine Wine Merchants, and Christie’s in London, the Rothbury Estate and Yalumba Winery in Australia, Hennessy and L’Academie du Vin in France, and Schenley in Canada, gracing his resumé. His work in Canada even resulted in the Canadian press labeling him the "Wayne Gretzky of Wine". He's widely considered to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on Port and Madeira. He's also credited for the growth of North American Port consumption during the mid 1980’s and was responsible for the re-introduction of Madeira to North America in 1989.

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1991 Graham's Porto Vintage, Portugal, Douro, Wine Review

Vintage:

1991

Score:

Grade:

A-

Current Price:

$80.00USD

From a 375ml bottle. A bit of Port at the end of a nice dinner with a bit of chocolate is a lovely treat. Since I didn't plan ahead, this was pop and pour and really deserved better, but so it goes. Purple in color, ruby at the rim. Even from this format, this bottle was not showing much age at 28 years from vintage. The nose has cherries, milk chocolate covered raisins and slight dried cranberry notes. On the palate, this is sweet, but not as much as expected given the producer. Lively acidity. Nice cherry fruit. Some heat on the finish (air will help this). Probably at its peak

Aging Wine Part III: Case Closed

Any regular readers of this column know that my wife, Emily, is pregnant with our first child. Upon hearing this news in June, I promptly began preparing to lay down a case of wine to enjoy with my unborn son 25 years down the road. Two months ago , I wrote about the process of aging wine – how to select it, where to store it, when to drink it, and so forth. Last month I delved into the all-important question of which wines are worth aging by cataloguing five of the wine categories that made their way into the mixed case I put together. This column finishes that project by reporting on the four remaining categories of wine I’ve chosen for my son’s case. In so doing, hopefully I’ll lend some help to others who are searching for wines to put away for a special occasion.

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2003 Graham Vintage Porto, Portugal, Wine Review

Vintage:

2018

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Grahams is one of the top Port Houses. Stylistically, it is usually one of the sweeter Ports of those top houses. 2003 was a very hot year in Europe. Oddly enough, that meant many of the wines either got too ripe or they vines shut down and the resulting wines did not have enough stuffing. This wine is in the former category. How that plays out depends on your personal tastes. Deep purple in color. The nose is jammy with black raspberries and black raspberry candy. On the palate, the jammy candied quality continues. Lots of black raspberry fruit. Not a ton of depth but some. Some

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