2016 Dow Porto Late Bottled Vintage port
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Score 89/100 · Drink 2022-2031, Mark Squires, Aug 2022
The 2016 Late Bottled Vintage Port is a field blend bottled in 2022 with a bar-top cork and 110 grams of residual sugar after some six years in oak. Showing pure power, this is still intense after six years in wood. It's got very ripe fruit, perhaps a bit more than ripe, but it is the balance between power and fruit that is the bigger issue here. Most people don't age filtered LBVs, and they may be in for a surprise. It certainly does a lot right.
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