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2011 Taylor's - 12x37.5cl
21B1TAYLH12 _ 2011 - Taylor's - 12x37.5cl
  • Colour Port_Sweet
  • Producer Taylor Fladgate
  • Region Port
  • Drinking 2022 - 2043
  • Case size 12x37.5cl
  • Available Now

2011 - Taylor's - 12x37.5cl

  • Colour Port Sweet
  • Producer Taylor Fladgate
  • Region Port
  • Drinking 2022 - 2043
  • Case size 12x37.5cl
  • Available Now
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Case price: £327.70 Duty Paid inc VAT
Equivalent Bottle Price: £27.30 Duty Paid inc VAT
Case price: £250.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis, May 2013

    Founded in 1692 as Taylor Fladgate and Yeatman, this family owned shipper is renowned for making some of the Douro’s finest wines, with great power and longevity. Wine lovers lucky enough to have inherited some of the famous Taylor’s 1927 or 1963 in their cellars still talk of the wine’s remarkable freshness and they remain today beautiful drinking ports. The fine fruit qualities provided by their three principal Quintas: Vargellas, Terra Feita and Junco, very much make this a wine that will provide pleasure for more than one generation! A classic meaty masculine style this is a very fine 2011, with great ripeness of dark berry fruits. This is a textured and concentrated wine, with hints of liquorice and spice. A little reserved on the finish but there is excellent density and weight and this wine has huge potential in the classic Taylor’s mould.

  • Goedhuis, May 2013

    Founded in 1692 as Taylor Fladgate and Yeatman, this family owned shipper is renowned for making some of the Douro’s finest wines, with great power and longevity. Wine lovers lucky enough to have inherited some of the famous Taylor’s 1927 or 1963 in their cellars still talk of the wine’s remarkable freshness and they remain today beautiful drinking ports. The fine fruit qualities provided by their three principal Quintas: Vargellas, Terra Feita and Junco, very much make this a wine that will provide pleasure for more than one generation! A classic meaty masculine style this is a very fine 2011, with great ripeness of dark berry fruits. This is a textured and concentrated wine, with hints of liquorice and spice. A little reserved on the finish but there is excellent density and weight and this wine has huge potential in the classic Taylor’s mould.

  • Neal Martin, Jun 2013, Score: 96-98

    The 2011 Taylor’s Vintage 2011 has a multifaceted, Pandora’s Box of a nose that is mercurial in the glass: cassis at first before blackberry and raspberry politely ask it to move aside, followed by wilted rose petals and Dorset plum. Returning after one 45 minutes that nose has shut up shop. The palate is sweet and sensual on the entry, plush and opulent, with copious black cherries, boysenberry and cassis fruit, curiously more reminiscent of Fonseca! It just glides across the palate with a mouth-coating, glycerine-tinged finish that has a wonderful lightness of touch, demonstrating how Vintage Port is so much more accessible in its youth nowadays. But don’t let that fool you into dismissing the seriousness or magnitude of this outstanding Taylor’s. 96-98/100

  • Jancis Robinson, May 2013, Score: 19.5

    This wine was placed immediately after the super-opulent Fonseca in the BFT tasting which may have been a mistake. This is restrained. well mannered, discreet, keeps its powder very dry. But on the palate it opens out in the most superb, burgundian peacock's tail sort of way. Another wonderful wine from The Fladgate Partnership. Utterly different from the Fonseca. Upright and straight backed. But irreproachable. My gums are virtually impervious to sugar and acid but this wine set them vibrating a bit. Dried prunes ground up with rocks. Drink 2040 - 2080.

Producer

Taylor Fladgate

Taylor's is now over 300 years old. It remains a family firm, completely independent, owned still by relations of the original partners. Taylor is accepted by most wine authorities to be the greatest of all port shippers, famous especially for its sublime and long-lived Vintage ports. The finest Port is produced from grapes grown on the steep and rocky slopes of the Upper Douro and its tributaries. Vines have been grown on ...Read more

Taylor's is now over 300 years old. It remains a family firm, completely independent, owned still by relations of the original partners. Taylor is accepted by most wine authorities to be the greatest of all port shippers, famous especially for its sublime and long-lived Vintage ports. The finest Port is produced from grapes grown on the steep and rocky slopes of the Upper Douro and its tributaries. Vines have been grown on these remote hillsides since pre-Roman times. In the 17th Century, British traders, cut off from their supplies of Bordeaux by frequent wars with France, took a liking to the full-flavoured, robust wines of Portugal. Under the Methuen Treaty of 1703, England granted lower duties to Portuguese wines than to those of France and Germany, becoming for over a century the principal market for the wines of the Douro Valley. But these wines did not travel well, so the traders added brandy to fortify them against the rigours of their Atlantic sea voyage. Before long pure grape spirit was added during fermentation and Port, as we drink it today, was created. Now in its fourth century, the company is still thriving, with wine quality remaining the firm's only consideration. Taylor's Port was, is, and will continue to be, one of the world's greatest wines.Read less

Region

Port

Port is made in the Cima Corgo, Baixo Corgo and Douro Superior districts of the Douro Valley in the north of Portugal. The summers are hot and dry and the climate becomes more continental as you move further east towards the upper Douro Valley. Here temperatures often exceed 40 degrees. The Douro Valley has steep hillsides with terraces, which is not only aesthetically pleasing but is also extremely useful for making quality wine. The schist soils aid in drainage and have become very important to port production, so much so that much of the Douro table wines have been relegated to granite soils. The six main grape varieties used for port production are Touriga Nacional, Tinta Cão, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo), Tinta Barroca, Touriga Francesa and Tinta Amarela. There are another 42 grape varieties that are permitted but these six are considered to be the noblest ones, each adding something different to the blend. After the harvest the grapes are trodden, often by foot but more often by machines, in giant lagars (troughs). Port is a fortified wine so during fermentation ‘brandy' (not actually brandy but a grape-distilled spirit) is added to increase thealcoholic strength to around 17-19 % abv. This leaves a sweet, red fortified wine with lots of vibrant fruit. There are many different types of Port from the Basic Ruby Ports, through to Tawny Ports and LBVs, to probably the most famous of all Vintage Port that can take 20 years to reach its peak. When mature, Vintage Port is a unique tasting experience with warm, concentrated spicy-fruit flavours and a superb length that just goes on and on.

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