Decanter World Wine AwardsTaylor's releases £2,500 Port
- Thursday 21 October 2010
Taylor’s Scion, which has been maturing in the Douro since 1855, was bought in cask by the company earlier this year, but would normally have been used in its 30- or 40-year-old tawny blends.
‘That seemed a shame,’ said Adrian Bridge, CEO of The Fladgate Partnership, owner of Taylor’s. ‘There is a very strong argument from a wine point of view why this should not be blended.
‘Very often these wines are so intense in their aging that they end up almost too cloying, too intense. This wine still has some nice acidity, which gives some bite to the wine and gives something that is just quite extraordinary.’
About 1,400 bottles of Scion will be released, packaged in a specially designed decanter and wooden box based on a 19th century instrument case.
Bridge said he believed there was a market for a port at such an elevated price, but confessed: ‘I have no idea of what the world response will be, absolutely no idea – because no-one’s ever done this before.’
Have your say!
Thomas Worner
December 24 09:48
You are joking!
The Wine Broker
October 23 10:09
I was one of the privileged few to taste Scion in London on Monday.
It is exquisite.
Chocolate brown in colour, with tinges of olive green.
Still lively, intense, with good acidity.
James Flattery
October 22 14:57
Absolutely a market, how many have seen let alone drunk a pre-phylloxera beverage. How many of the 1400 will actually be drunk?
CA Kogler
October 22 00:50
You're a brave man... and I believe there's a market for this! New Ideas... Are you crazy? Yes! Yes! As you said, this hasn't been tried before - that means you are 1st to market. BRAVO!
CA Kogler