Taylor's Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) Port 2020
Taylor Fladgate (Vila Nova de Gaia / Douro, Portugal)
The Ready-to-Drink Vintage Experience
Striking, deep purple-black color to the rim. The nose is highly concentrated and intense, bursting with aromas of dark chocolate, wild blackberries, cassis, and black cherry, underlaid by a subtle hint of fresh mint and cedar wood. Full-bodied, rich, and velvety on the palate with firm but well-integrated tannins and a long, warming, jammy black-fruit finish.
⭐⭐⭐ (It sits at a solid 20% ABV with plenty of luscious residual sweetness. Treat it as an elegant end-of-evening sipper rather than a casual patio drink).
Rich, pungent blue cheeses (like Stilton or Roquefort), dark chocolate lava cake, berry tarts, or traditional walnut cakes.
This is the ultimate cheat code if you want the depth of a vintage port without dealing with sediment or having to wait twenty years for it to mature. Because it spent years softening up in massive oak casks, it’s remarkably smooth on the palate but retains this massive, intense wave of dark chocolate and jammy blackberry fruit. It’s dense, velvety, and sweet—the perfect dessert bottle to split with travel companions when you've wrapped up a long day of walking.