Provenance - the first of two bottles purchased from the Bordeaux Index broking list in August 2021. Bottles look absolutely fine apart from missing their front labels.
Graham 1994, a bottle which had lost its front label but whose identity was confirmed by both the back label and the cork. Deep red in colour with a medium rim. Big on the nose, showing fruit salad chews and canned cherry; big, green and herbaceous overtones lying above the fruit. Fragrant and sweet on the nose and palate with the fruit being ripe and full of fine tannins on the palate, a wine which is truly delicious with its dark chocolate and black cherry. Youthful but with some added complexity from its years in the bottle which add to the fruit to give a complexity that yields a delicious mouthful of wine. Yum! 93/100. Opened and decanted at 13.30, returned to the bottle at 16.30, poured at 17.00 and tasted at 19.55.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
G94. Medium dark garnet. Nicely complex nose combining red and purple fruits with hints of green that isn't quite mint but comes from that direction. Big, fruity palate full of ripe purple berries and some black cherry. Possibly a hint of chocolate. Only just barely starting to enter maturity at 30 years old! 95 points.