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Graham, Graham's Port 2017

RegionPort
Subregion Portugal > Port
ColourRed
TypeFortified

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Tasting Notes

Wow! Amazing aromas of crushed blackberry and blueberry, stems and rose petal. Entrancing. Full-bodied, very tight and powerful with ultra-fine tannins. Intense richness of crushed berries, chocolate, hazelnut and coffee. 5,250 cases. Try after 2026.

97
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, May 2019

Lush and inviting, with waves of cassis, melted red licorice, plum preserves and boysenberry reduction coursing through, carried by a velvety structure that lets this flow wonderfully. Flashes of apple wood and tar score the finish, which ends with authoritative cut. This is serious. Best from 2035 through 2055. 5,250 cases made, 937 cases imported. — JM

97
James Molesworth, WineSpectator.com, May 2019

The 2017 Vintage Port is a blend of 35% Touriga Nacional, 47% Touriga Franca and various others, including a blend from old vines. It comes in with 113 grams of residual sugar. It was bottled about a month before this tasting, but the just-bottled sample was not really ready. This is a pre-bottling sample instead. 2027 - 2070

95/97
Mark Squires, Wine Advocate (July 2019 ), July 2019

Deep saturated purple in colour. The nose is heady, rich and powerful in black fruit but also nuanced with hifh toned bloog orange and dried flowers. Succulent, rich and round on the palate, this is layered and powerful with christmas cake, cinnamon, damson and blackberry. This is robust but very refined, the sweetness rounding the palate rather than dominating the fruit through to a very long finish.

97
Farr Vintners, Farr Tasting, June 2019

Based on Touriga Franca from south facing slopes at Quinta dos Malvedos with Touriga Nacional from quintas Vila Velha and Vale de Mealhadas (both predominantly north facing) topped out with fruit from old vines at Quinta da Tua and 10% Sousão: very deep blue-black colour: super ripe on the nose, plum, mint and bergamot spring from the glass; rich, velvety and voluptuous in typical Graham’s style (3.9 Baumé), the initial richness makes the tannins which show up on the long, ripe broad, fresh, mouthwatering finish. 5,250 cases declared.

18+
Richard Mayson, richardmayson.com, May 2019
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