In Bond Fine Wine. 2003 Dow, Port, Douro, Portugal. Other vintage port in 12x75cl. Top critic score: 96/100 (NM). Drinking window: 2025–2045. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
Wine Advocate (WA) — 94/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com · Drink 2025-2045
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, blac…
Neal Martin (NM) — 96/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 2009-07-31 · Drink 2020 - 2050+
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…