2017 Pocas

Tasting notes for individual Ports, with an index sorted by vintage and alphabetically.
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Alex Bridgeman
Graham’s 1948
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A gentle purple colour, one of the few wines to be purple in tone. Closed on the nose, revealing a little bruised fruit. Gentle tannins on the palate give a dry core to the fruit at first, but suddenly explode within the fruit to grab attention and make sure they aren’t missed. Parma violets and a lovely green tannic finish. An odd showing, very different from the other wines tasted alongside this one. A Port I’d like to try again. 85-87/100.
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jdaw1
Cockburn 1851
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Pç17: soft palate, some Tayloresque grit. Light weight, with pineapple fruit. Not a giant for the ages, instead fine drinking for now.
Constandia
Taylor’s LBV
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Deep purple with ripe red cherry, blackberry and tobacco. Big but smooth tannins and with very nicely concentrated fruit and a good long finish with very intresting mid palate. I'd like to try this in the future. 18/20
NickA
Fonseca Bin 27
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D6: A dense, reserved, slight spicy fruity nose. Slight prickle of VA. A bright floral deliciousness to the sweetly red fruited palate. Balanced with good freshness through its good acidic cut. Another where spitting was not the preferred option!
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rich_n
Warre’s Otima 10 year old Tawny
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I was (extremely) fortunate to be offered this as part of a tasting at Pocas in their home base. An impressive wine with smooth dark fruits in the nose. The palate shows overwhelming fruit; black cherries and plum overlaid with strawberries and redcurrants with superb spice layers. There's a wonderful drying tannic structure underlying and holding it all together, wonderful stuff!
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