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Jag tar över stafettpinnen för december och bestämmer att vi denna julmånad provar 2017 Taylor’s Vintage Port! 
Herregud, det är ju alldeles för ungt tänker ni alla nu säkert. Ja det tyckte jag också först, men enligt @Jos så är “Ung Taylor magi” och när jag googlade lite och fick träff på denna text från Decanter så kände jag att det här kan bli spännande:
"....That’s not what I want to tell you, though. What I want to say is this: ignore anyone telling you not to taste and drink vintage Port in extreme youth. You should. There’s no other wine pleasure quite like this.
By all means store it until “full maturity” if you wish, and appreciate it in a state of subtle, graceful and polite refinement, unwrinkled by time. That’s a pleasure, too.
But you won’t fully understand it unless you have tasted it young, in its ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ stage, when it comes hurtling out of the glass and puts the screamers on you. Yes, it can be challenging – but remember, too, that this young wine is the product of a company or a farm’s very finest vineyards, carefully selected, from great schist soils, from long-proven terroir, and often made with a blend of largely indigenous grape varieties. Even young, there is a complexity, a refinement and an intrinsic subtlety engraved into a wine of this sort, and those qualities are perfectly capable of youthful expression, just as they are of mature expression. If you don’t take a look young, you’re missing out.” (Andrew Jefford)
Vinet finns på systemet. Det har utgått online men finns i ett antal butiker (Nr 92777). Finns säkert även att få tag på ute i Europa.
Lite data:
A blend of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinto Cão, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca from Quinta de Vargellas (the ‘backbone’) as well as from Terra Feita and Junco. Picking commencing at Vargellas on September 1, the earliest since 1945. TA 4.52 g/l, RS 100 g/l, pH 3.86. 11,500 cases.
Årgången:
"It’s the first back-to-back declaration in decades for most houses; some have gone even longer without declaring two years in a row.
The consecutive declaration inevitably means that the 2017s will be compared to 2016s. Quite rightly, those that splashed out on 2016 will want to know why they should open their wallets again. Well, the answer is clear when you taste them: whereas the leitmotifs of 2016 are elegance and finesse, 2017 is more about structure and intensity. The 2017s are more hedonistic than their 2016 counterparts and yet the startling aspect of these Ports is their freshness. Theoretically the heat of summer ought to have sapped the wines of their brightness and acidity, yet it is clearly locked in and there is plenty of tension. The result is a number of very intense though not exotic Ports, in that they avoid hedonism and there is no loss in typicity. At times they verge on overwhelming the senses, though of course I am sinfully approaching them decades before their prime. Conjecturing what the 2017s will become, the mind boggles. The quality of the vintage is such that all Port houses saw fit to release special labels, and there is good reason for this. The dry conditions meant that the oldest vines with the greatest spatial root systems performed exceptionally well.”
Hoppas vi blir några fler denna gång.
Herregud, det är ju alldeles för ungt tänker ni alla nu säkert. Ja det tyckte jag också först, men enligt @Jos så är “Ung Taylor magi” och när jag googlade lite och fick träff på denna text från Decanter så kände jag att det här kan bli spännande:
"....That’s not what I want to tell you, though. What I want to say is this: ignore anyone telling you not to taste and drink vintage Port in extreme youth. You should. There’s no other wine pleasure quite like this.
By all means store it until “full maturity” if you wish, and appreciate it in a state of subtle, graceful and polite refinement, unwrinkled by time. That’s a pleasure, too.
But you won’t fully understand it unless you have tasted it young, in its ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ stage, when it comes hurtling out of the glass and puts the screamers on you. Yes, it can be challenging – but remember, too, that this young wine is the product of a company or a farm’s very finest vineyards, carefully selected, from great schist soils, from long-proven terroir, and often made with a blend of largely indigenous grape varieties. Even young, there is a complexity, a refinement and an intrinsic subtlety engraved into a wine of this sort, and those qualities are perfectly capable of youthful expression, just as they are of mature expression. If you don’t take a look young, you’re missing out.” (Andrew Jefford)
Vinet finns på systemet. Det har utgått online men finns i ett antal butiker (Nr 92777). Finns säkert även att få tag på ute i Europa.
Lite data:
A blend of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinto Cão, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca from Quinta de Vargellas (the ‘backbone’) as well as from Terra Feita and Junco. Picking commencing at Vargellas on September 1, the earliest since 1945. TA 4.52 g/l, RS 100 g/l, pH 3.86. 11,500 cases.
Årgången:
"It’s the first back-to-back declaration in decades for most houses; some have gone even longer without declaring two years in a row.
The consecutive declaration inevitably means that the 2017s will be compared to 2016s. Quite rightly, those that splashed out on 2016 will want to know why they should open their wallets again. Well, the answer is clear when you taste them: whereas the leitmotifs of 2016 are elegance and finesse, 2017 is more about structure and intensity. The 2017s are more hedonistic than their 2016 counterparts and yet the startling aspect of these Ports is their freshness. Theoretically the heat of summer ought to have sapped the wines of their brightness and acidity, yet it is clearly locked in and there is plenty of tension. The result is a number of very intense though not exotic Ports, in that they avoid hedonism and there is no loss in typicity. At times they verge on overwhelming the senses, though of course I am sinfully approaching them decades before their prime. Conjecturing what the 2017s will become, the mind boggles. The quality of the vintage is such that all Port houses saw fit to release special labels, and there is good reason for this. The dry conditions meant that the oldest vines with the greatest spatial root systems performed exceptionally well.”
Hoppas vi blir några fler denna gång
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