Opened it up by means of my port tongs, decanted and served directly, at slightly below cellar temp (about 10,5 Celcius).
Colour: golden amber, tawny. With a great glow/shine to it.
Did not take notes yesterday, so partly from memory and partly from the last glass of it that I am sipping on now (12-15)
Nose:
lots of dried fruits (apricot, orangepeel, some plums), a little cinnamon maybe and lovely darker tones in the second phase.
Palate:
again a mouthfull of round intense dried fruits (apricot, peach, pear maybe), a little heat (from the time in de decanter? don't recall this from yesterday. Further, a hint of leather and chocolate following.
Finish:
Full, warm and long (over a minute now)
. Apart from the bottle and maybe the colour, I would think this comes close to an old regular (red) Colheita with a lot of years in the barrel. Please set me straight if I am guessing wrong here, this is my first white Colheita, and I don't have any experience with (real) old Colheitas yet, so I am just guessing here.
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Anyway a very very lovely experience (and if this is typical for white colheitas I will have to try to find me some more)