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Cockburn's Vintage Port

The 2021 Cockburn's Vintage Port has earned its place in The World of Fine Wine’s handpicked collection of tasting notes, featuring insights from the world’s foremost wine authorities. Explore in-depth commentary from wine experts Andrew Jefford, Richard Mayson and Simon Field on Cockburn's Vintage Port - an internationally acclaimed fortified wine from Douro Valley.
Cockburn's Vintage Port
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Wine Name
Cockburn's Vintage Port

Wine Producer
Cockburn's

Score
94

Wine Style
Fortified Wine

Grape Type
Touriga Nacional
Touriga Franca

Country
Portugal

Vintage
2017

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Simon Field | Squid-ink color, a nose of gum cistus, blackberry leaf, and Parma violets. There is a power to the mid-palate, informed by the spirit, of course, the sheer weight of fruit, too; a luxuriant mouth-coating richness, poised thereafter, nether acidity nor tannins overwhelming in what is a composed and poised piece of work, waiting to pounce like a very black jaguar. Lovely, resolved sweetness, beguiling ab initio ad infinitum. | 93

Andrew Jefford | Very exciting saturated black core out to a purple rim and lots of lazy, languid legs on the side of the glass. Lifted, pure-milled, and fine-grained aromas that gather spice, creamy blackcurrant fruits, vanilla, tobacco, and citrus peels alluringly together—a very exciting prospect. The palate doesn’t disappoint; this is hugely concentrated and close-textured, with depth-charge levels of fruit cloaked in fine tannins and lingering, provocative extract. This is wonderfully powerful yet poised Vintage Port. Very pure, too—not a single aromatic false note here. It rolls on and on in the finish. Astonishing depth and concentration here. | 96

Richard Mayson | Demure and tight-knit on the nose, with underlying depth and density opening up to reveal ripe berry fruit; firm and well defined, with structural tannins supporting some lovely naturally sweet berry fruit with bitter-chocolate intensity and a long, sinewy, tannic finish, where the freshness reemerges. Not the biggest wine here but wonderful poise. | 94

Details

Wine expert Andrew Jefford
Richard Mayson
Simon Field
Tastings year 2021
Region Douro Valley
% Alcohol By Volume20
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