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Tasting Notes

Offers a hedonistic experience, with notes of coffee can bread, ganache and sweet tobacco, plus steeped plum, blackberry and açaí berry fruit. Supported by a tarry swath, the finish has an old-school echo, thanks to a warm accent. Solid. Best from 2025 through 2043.

Score: 95

James Molesworth, Wine Spectator Maturity: 2025-2043 11 December 2023

A magnificent Dow. A deep opaque purple/black colour. Very youthful in appearance. The nose is very pure and as primal as its appearance: blackberry, liquorice, black olive and an engaging sense of minerality. But it is very tight and unwilling to express itself at this stage. The palate is very well balanced with ripe blackberry, olive and spice flavours on the entry, good acidity and focus with a fine tannic structure towards the finish. Leaves the most fresh and vibrant. More depth than the Croft, this is a superb Dow.

Score: 96

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2020 - 2050 31 July 2009

The complex aromatics of the opaque, black-colored 2003 Dow Vintage Port display chocolate, dried oak, black cherries, blackberries, copious spices, and a myriad flowers. This fresh, backward wine offers a medium to full-bodied, deeply concentrated core of spice-laced dark fruits. Softly-textured and seductive in the mid-palate, it boasts abundant layers of candied Damson plums, blueberries, black cherries, molasses, and hints of chocolate before revealing its firm structure. Extremely youthful and primary, this exceptional effort demands patience.

Score: 94

Pierre Rovani, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2025 - 2045+ 31 October 2005