Graham's Vintage Port 2017 Rated 97WE

Wine Enthusiast Review
Rated 97
The wine is packed with glorious black fruits that have immense backing tannins. It has a succulent edge of juicy acidity that sears the tannins and promises a great future. Drink from 2031.

Wine Spectator Review
Rated 97
Lush and inviting, with waves of cassis, melted red licorice, plum preserves and boysenberry reduction coursing through, carried by a velvety structure that lets this flow wonderfully. Flashes of apple wood and tar score the finish, which ends with authoritative cut. This is serious. Best from 2035 through 2055.

Wine Advocate Review
Rated 95-97
The 2017 Vintage Port is a blend of 35% Touriga Nacional, 47% Touriga Franca and various others, including a blend from old vines. It comes in with 113 grams of residual sugar. It was bottled about a month before this tasting, but the just-bottled sample was not really ready. This is a pre-bottling sample instead. Drink 2027-2070.

Wine & Spirits Review
Rated 93
This has the plump sweetness of a Graham's vintage, teeming with black fruit and saturated with tannins as chewy as the thick black skins of blueberries. Underneath the smoky oak tannins, there's a gentle rose scent that hints at the wine's development ahead. Malvedos, the vineyard central to the rich fruit style at Graham's, benefitted from its north-facing exposition, especially in the sectors of old vines that Charles Symington features in the Stone Terraces bottling.

Wine Tasting Notes
The wine is a truly outstanding example of the best that the Douro is capable of producing. Deep purple in color and with a viscosity that signals a huge concentration, the aromas of blackberry, plum and bergamot leap out of the glass. On the palate there are layers of black fruit with fresh apricot highlights, and an amazingly long and persistent finish.

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