TAYLOR
1970
| Origin | Portugal, Port |
| District | Vintage Port |
| ABV | 22% |
The 1970 Taylor's Vintage Port has a tight nose, youthful with notes of liquorice, raisin, boot-polish and lemongrass. It is well defined and displays a little more intensity than the 1963. The palate is full-bodied with firm tannins, very cohesive with superb ripeness: wild strawberry, lemongrass, smoke and dates with an incredibly persistent finish. There is an effortlessness to this Port. It has such weight on the finish that it will cruise past another two decades in bottle. Tasted in the Factory House in Porto for Taylor's - The Story of a Classic Port House book. Drinking range: 2018 - 2030 Rating: 98 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jun 2018)
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Light brickish ruby. Sweet, mellow, gentle nose. Lovely haunting, fully mature wine with more lusciousness than most 1970s and a really rich undertow of round fruit. Impossible not to like this wine, although it may not be as long-lived as some other 1970s. A very neat finish. Rating: 18.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Sept 2011)
Bricky garnet. Slighly darker fruit and some leather too, more savoury and slightly less freshness and not as lifted as the Graham’s. More raisin and Christmas cake sweetness and spice with a velvety texture. Luscious but still quite a bit of fimness. Full of fruit density still and tremendous length. 1990-2020 Rating: 18 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Sept 2011)
The 1970 fabulous, a broodingly dense-colored, backward port that has all the signs of future greatness, provided one is willing to cellar it Rating: 96 Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, www.RobertParker.com (Sept 2011)
Taylor
Taylor, Fladgate and Yeatman is one of the oldest and largest port houses, and owns the renowned brands Fonseca, Fonseca-Guimaraens, Croft and Taylor. Based in Oporto and the Douro Valley, it is an independent company which is still family-owned and managed. Widely renowned for its vintage ports, which are blended from the finest wines from its three iconic 'quintas', Taylors is also credited with being the originator of the Late Bottled Vintage style of port.
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