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NEW RELEASE: Taylor's 1967 Very Old Single Harvest Port

Taylors 1967
Taylor's holds one of the most extensive reserves of very old cask aged Port of any producer.  Extended ageing in seasoned oak gives these tawny ports from a single year an aged character that is quite different from vintage ports, with rich mellow flavours (walnuts, figs, caramel), and incredible aromatic complexity.  The archetypal Port house, it is easy to see why Robert Parker once described Taylor's as "the Latour of Portugal".

This 50 year old wine in perfect condition is a great collectors' item and the perfect gift for a 50th birthday or a landmark anniversary.  Although considered perfect to drink on release the 1967 has many immensely pleasurable years ahead - life really does begin at 50!
 
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1967 TAYLOR'S VERY OLD SINGLE HARVEST PORT
 
"This draws you in, with aromas of warm halva and toasted pistachio giving way to a wide range of buckwheat, toasted sesame, walnut husk, menthol and licorice root notes that refuse to break down in the mouth. Exhibits remarkable length, with ample viscosity matched by steely tension, putting this in rarefied air. Drink now. 580 cases made."
98pts James Molesworth, Wine Spectator, January 2017
 
"The 1967 Very Old Single Harvest Port is Taylor's new release in its ongoing 50-year Colheita program (or, as they prefer to say, "single harvest tawny port").  It is a typical Douro blend, coming in with 163 grams per liter of residual sugar and 20.7% alcohol. Taylor's series of 50-year single-harvest tawnies are impressive and always on the mark. This year is no exception. This molasses-flavored beauty emphasizes its complexity, seeming elegant in the mid-palate, but remarkably concentrated in flavor. Despite that concentration of flavor, this never seems even a little jammy. It is also wonderfully persistent on the finish. The most notable features here, though, are the smooth, unctuous texture and the complexity--the mature flavors, not only molasses, but a bit of seared caramel. It was interesting revisiting this a few days later, by the way. Some say these long-aged tawnies never change. I never believed that was true and this is a good example. On opening, there was a touch of a hard edge and it was sometimes just a little harsh on the finish. A couple of days later that was literally gone and after a week or more, this seemed remarkably graceful and impeccably balanced. It eventually seemed even a touch understated. This was bottled in 2016 with a bar-top cork. As noted on occasion, wines aged this long in barrel can in theory last indefinitely, assuming no cork failures, but it is ready and the bar-top cork means it is meant to drink now."
95pts Mark Squire, Wine Advocate, December 2016

 
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