1970 Taylor’s Vintage Port 1x75cl

Wine Advocate 98

A deep garnet core with a faded brick rim. The nose is still tight, youthful with notes of liquorices, raisin, boot-polish and a little lemongrass. Again, very well defined and a little more intensity than the -63. The palate is full-bodied with firm tannins, very cohesive with superb ripeness: wild strawberry, lemongrass, smoke and dates with an incredibly long, persistent finish. There is an effortless nature to this port and having encountered this several times, this is undoubtedly the best bottle I have had. It has such weight on the finish that it will cruise past another 20-25 years in bottle. It just has the edge over the great -77. Tasted November 2007. [Neal Martin, 01/11/2007]

JancisRobinson.com 16.5–

Second bottle opened. Pale-mid tawny. Dusty, spirity and leathery, with dried fruit and spice. Quite chewy tannins but without quite the depth of flavour for them. Fiery finish. (TJ) [08/09/2020]

Anticipated maturity: 1990-2015