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Late Bottled Vintage
Item number: 000 623
Name: Late Bottled Vintage - half bottle
Production area: Portugal - Douro DOC
Producer: Taylor's Port
Grape varieties: Tinta Cao, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barocca, Touriga Francesa, Touriga Nacional
Color: red
Maturity: enjoy
Description: Color: deep ruby with black reflections Bouquet: aromatic-scented bouquet with plenty of dark berry fruit flavors of black cherries and plums, beautifully clear and clean, pure taste: on the palate balanced, smooth and rounded, with a wealth of juicy aromas of berries (blueberries, raspberries), a hint of licorice and elegant, tightly woven tannins that give the wine a great structure, in the final fine sweetness is beautifully felt, gorgeous long, extremely delicious, a port in the best Taylor's style
Serving suggestion: in the bulbous wine glass (so can enjoy the bouquet at its best!), As a fine dessert wine at the end of a menu, with some cheese, preferably blue places like Stilton or Roquefort, but also to chocolate desserts and fruit salad (cherries, plums, berries )
Serving temperature: 16.00 ° C
Analytical Data: Alcohol content: 20.00%
Residual Sugar: 93.00 g / l
Acid: 4.36 g / l
Will drink well now
Wine processing: When Taylor's read all the grapes by hand and gently in the winery immediately processed. First, start the butler to keep the two-to three-day fermentation at a maximum of 30 ° C, the aromatic fruit as complete as possible. Then, when about half of the sugar is fermented, is stopped by the addition of high-proof alcohol of the fermentation process, so get the required fine, natural sweetness remains. The young wine is aged now in the traditional 630-liter barrels. Unlike the vintage port that is already one year maturity barrel filled to then slow to finish on the bottle of Late Bottled Vintage matures about four years in cask and is bottled at the ready for consumption. At its completion, the final blend are some of the best and richest body of reserve wines added, produced the Taylor's on his Quintas in Cima Corgo and Douro Superior.
Awards: Decanter WWA Oct. 2007: Bronze
Bottle size: 0,375 l
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