2004 Croft LBV
Posted: 23:02 Fri 27 Feb 2015
The last bottle in Northern Ireland apparently (I think I tried 7 branches of Tesco (possessive avoided for the sake of the anal retentives)).
Great big fruit nose, violets and very ripe plums, cinnamon sticks, marzipan, fruit cake.
Lovely entry, very silky, some sourness as of kirsch cherries or those plums the Austrians make tarts with. Then a great surge of acid, and some powdery tannins, and a long finish of the acid and black fruits, blackberries, very ripe, very lovely. Really wonderful.
Great big fruit nose, violets and very ripe plums, cinnamon sticks, marzipan, fruit cake.
Lovely entry, very silky, some sourness as of kirsch cherries or those plums the Austrians make tarts with. Then a great surge of acid, and some powdery tannins, and a long finish of the acid and black fruits, blackberries, very ripe, very lovely. Really wonderful.