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A Late Bottled Vintage Port wine, bottled in 2008 and aged 17 years old (tasted in Jan2021).
It's a very good example that an LBV Port can age very well in bottle for several years, the perfect example that some LBV's Port wines have a good ageing potential and gain complexity in bottle, especially those traditional style LBV's that are not filtered prior to bottling.
It was bottled with a worthy solid cork stopper, a "full" or "driven" cork, as opposed to "bar top" cork stoppers that characterize the filtered modern style LBV Port wines.
What's left, the tasting notes and impressions...
It was tasted at a "cellar temperature", i.e., slightly cooled at about 15 to 16ºC.
And, yes, certainly it should have been decanted... but it was not, it was served with the necessary care and slow movements, until, at the end, the wine natural sediments began to appear and flow.
It still kept an intense ruby color but with brown and brick colored tints on the brim. A good LBV Port wine in a good evolution phase (at its best stage?), the years in bottle refined it. It had a pleasant aromatic exuberance with predominante red fruit notes. With a good structure and harmonious, soft tannins, fine, flavor with notes of cherry, cherry jam, cranberry dried fruit, dried hibiscus, nice peppery. Delicate and with a good aromatic final intensity.
Quinta de la Rosa LBV Port 2004. Le vin à la boche!
©Hugo Sousa Machado
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