1863 Taylor Colheita

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henrygjeffreys
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1863 Taylor Colheita

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I was fortunate enough to try this wine recently. Here are my thoughts:
Thick brown colour with yellow rim
Smells of alcohol and varnish initially
Very powerful nose, like a solvent. I ended up wafting it towards my nose like a 15 year old studying chemistry then there I got lots of malt and caramel
Thick texture, lots of sweetness initially
and then lots of acidity, well-balanced, not at all cloying.
Tastes of molasses and then nuts, walnuts
layers and layers of nuts. Some tannin. Very very long
Just goes on and on. Like concentrated essence of port. You could put a drop of this in a glass of ordinary tawny and it would transform it.
A great privilege to try this
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