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The United States Revolutionaries toasted the U.S. Constitution with Madeira. Factor enough to give it a shot!.

The palate is open and lively - vinous, nearly - with pure plum and dark cherry fruit supported by warming spiciness and notes of earth, tea and tar. It's drinking magnificently now, with beautiful intricacy and a dark sophistication, but do decant this because it has a lots of sediment in it.

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This is an intensely focused red with a sweet nose of ripe blackberry and plum fruit with complex spicy notes. The taste buds is dense and sweetly fruited with spiciness and smooth however firm tannins. This generous red wine is ripe but not jammy, and there's charming balance between the sweet fruit and the more mouth-watering, spicy elements.

A crisp, rather mouth-watering design of white wine thats bone dry and high in acid. This is a contemporary analysis of Vinho Verde, it still has the distinctive personality of red wines from this area.

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Outstanding things. 90/100 07/08 This Douro table wine is one of the best-value examples of this category around, and I reckon it can complete effectively with a lot of its more pricey peers. The nose is complicated with dark cherry fruit and some spicy, minerally depth. Its ripe and sweet, but savoury and balanced at the very same time.

Its a bit restrained and tight on the nose at the moment, not offering a lot. Closed? The taste buds is savoury with brooding dark fruits and an unique minerally, earthy severity. This is ripe, however its fresh and well defined at the same time not as showy or new-worldy as some Alentejo white wines can be.

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The palate is actually dynamic, with some classy oak supporting the intense berry and cherry fruit. With good grippy tannin and fresh acidity, this is a truly elegant expression of the Douro that ought to develop truly nicely for at least a decade.

I 'd be really interested to see how this wine develops - I reckon it will age well. 91/100 10/07 Niepoort LBV 2001 Douro, Portugal, This is a late-bottled vintage Port that would put some vintage red wines to embarassment. On the nose there's some spicy, herby complexity, with some lifted tar notes and a bit of perfume.

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The taste buds is securely structured and spicy, however still shows more of this ripe, complicated fruit character. Portuguese Fortified Wine suggest that there's some development to come, but it's currently a contemporary, sexy wine with a tip of Douro wildness to it. Excellent concentration and focus, and reassuringly this isn't simply another over-ripe late-picked worldwide red (in spite of the significant 14.

The new incarnation remains in a Bordeaux bottle and has been made in a more modern, less oxidative style. Its a little a bruiser, with extreme dark fruits on the nose and a spicy, chocolatey edge. The taste buds shows ripe dark fruits with a rich chocolatey, spicy, earthy character.

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Very good/excellent 93/100 12/06 his old Port wasn't decanted, and so needs a little air to open up. It has a mellow, soft spicy nose that's at first a little spirity, but ends up being a quite fruity and fudgy. The taste buds is soft and complex with mellow red fruits, yet still has a little bit of spicy bite.


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