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Good things come to those who wait.  The last two pipes (casks) of a wine set aside 125 years ago were bottled earlier this year. The 1896 vintage was a watershed for the Port trade as it was much the best harvest since phylloxera had ravaged the Douro valley in the 1870s. The wine came to Taylors through Wiese & Krohn, latterly a small Portuguese-owned company that was bought by the Fladgate Partnership in 2013. Deep mahogany centre with a thin olive- green rim; distinctly and very beautifully lifted on the nose, a touch balsamic or in Portuguese terms, vinagrinho, with a touch of cask dissipating to reveal a wonderful perfume of quince and a hint of roast coffee; richly concentrated with wonderfully mellifluous texture and a fresh streak of acidity which stops it from cloying, there’s a hint of molasses, butterscotch and leather on the finish which, as you might expect, goes on and on and on. The essence of Port: glorious and the last of its kind.

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Taylor's, Single Harvest, Port, Douro Valley, Portugal, 1896

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Good things come to those who wait.  The last two pipes (casks) of a wine set aside 125 years ago were bottled earlier this year

Taylor's, Single Harvest, Port, Douro Valley, Portugal, 1896

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