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The event - Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - held 16th May 2024

Tasting notes:

• Taylor 50YO Golden Age (bt 2022)
• Taylor Single Harvest 1961
• Taylor Single Harvest 1964
• Taylor Single Harvest 1965
• Taylor Single Harvest 1966
• Taylor Single Harvest 1967
• Taylor Single Harvest 1968
• Taylor Single Harvest 1969
• Taylor Single Harvest 1970
• Taylor Single Harvest 1971
• Taylor VVO Platinum Jubilee Edition (bt 2022)
• Taylor VVO Coronation Edition (bt 2023)

Bottled 2020. Warm marmalade on the nose, with btter-sweet citrus fruit. A delightful intensity of flavour on the palate. A rich set of flavours backed by generous lemon acidity. There is considerable sugar on the palate, but this is nicely balanced by the acidity. The wine delivers a long lemon finish. This is a big and powerful wine, very persistent and very impressive. 92/100. Tasted 16-May-2024.

1970 TSHT. Med dark tawny, mahogany, some brown. Nose is primarily dried citrus fruits and vinagrinho. Round and mouth-filling, with a somewhat dry finish. Intense due to the simultaneous high levels of sugar and acidity. Superb overall, with a persistent, long finish. 96 points. (Tied for 2nd on the night for me with the VVO Coronation Port, and behind the 1961 TSHT.)

I really liked the intensity of this. A big powerful wine with very good marmalade notes.

50% opacity, dark brown, yellow rim. Macademia and walnut nose. Huge saliva-inducing citrus burst on entry, walnuts.