NV Kopke Porto 10 Year Old Tawny
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Dark foxy red. Rose-petal-steeped marmelo jam, guava, candied blood-orange peel, kirsch. Chunky, deeply tangy, tea-steeped and bittersweet pitanga-fruit raw. Gorgeous wine that doesn’t give you a chance to resist it. Thickly succulent peach-jam layers through marmalade, through orange peel. Spherical and languidly laced in long, wide, slow ribbons of flavour and texture and tang. But I love the modern-architectural squares of structure built into the slow-toffee-swirls of sweetness. A wine that mesmerises you into thinking it’s languid when it’s actually dancing a fiery tango behind that door you didn’t push open. (TC)
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Tim Jackson MW, jancisrobinson.com
Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com
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Pale-mid tawny with some amber glints. Fudgy tones that are very well integrated into vanilla, dried-strawberry fruit and some chocolate. Really attractive nose without so much spirit. Touch of dried-herb complexity. Sweet attack, with nice balancing acidity, toffee and hazelnut complexity with pain d’épices and dried red fruit. Nice integration through the medium-long finish. Good example of the style. (TJ)
The NV 10 Year Old Tawny Port was bottled in 2016 with a bar top cork and 111 grams per liter of residual sugar. This is a pleasing tawny with a bit of spice, but only modest concentration. It is, of course, a 10 Year Old. What a 10 typically does well is be fresh and easy, with good balance. That is nicely done. It has only modest structure and an average finish to go with the average concentration, but it certainly tastes great.