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Wine Name
Taylor's Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port

Wine Producer
Taylor's

Score
92

Wine Style
Fortified Wine

Grape Type
Touriga Nacional
Touriga Franca
Tinta Barroca
Tempranillo
Tinta Cão
Tinta Amarela

Country
Portugal

Vintage
1995

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Overview

Michael Schuster: Dark red, narrow-rimmed; barely any maturity at 12 years; dense and relatively closed to smell, but with an emerging blackberry and black-cherry fruit and a subtle complexity, promising a fine bouquet. Rich, fairly concentrated, yet typically elegant middleweight, still with a firm tannin but no asperity; long, concentrated, even, with a noticeable mid-palate complexity and tenacity; a lovely sweetness of licorice fruit, a gentle pepperiness, and a clear subtlety of flavor, too, followed by excellent aromatic and fruit length. A very fine, gently muscular Vargellas, just starting to drink nicely but clearly with decades to go, and a finer bouquet and silkier texture to come. Now to 2025+ (July 2007). 17.5