Taylors Vintage Port 2007

Sweetness: Dry

Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz

Grape info: Highly prized for it intense aromatics, Touriga Nacional forms the basis of most vintage ports, conferring colour, tannin and age-worthy potential. Touriga Franca adds a perfumed elegance while Tinta Roriz provides firmness, length and finesse.

About: Founded in 1692, Taylor’s is one of the oldest of the Port houses. It is dedicated entirely to the production of Port wine and in particular to its finest styles. 2007’s warm and dry conditions brought the crop to perfect maturity, advancing the production of sugar and phenolics while retaining the excellent natural acidity resulting from the relatively cool summer. As a result, the harvest produced perfectly balanced musts which have produced stylish and elegant Vintage Port, full of vitality, with a superb fresh concentrated fruit character.

Tasting note: Characteristically stylish and racy, with a nose of dense blackcurrant and woodland fruit overlaid with discreet herbal nuances and scents of violet and rose petals. On the palate it displays the lean, sinewy and tightly knit tannins which are so much a feature of the Taylor style and the vibrant and clearly delineated fruit flavours which are the hallmark of the 2007 vintage.

Character: Blackcurrant, violet, dried herbs