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Dow's Vintage Port 1980

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Dow's Vintage Port (1980)

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Starting at: $95.38 USD
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Winery:
Dow's
Varietal:
Blend
Region:
Portugal > Douro > Porto
Type:
Dessert/Fortified
Color:
Red
Drink Dates:
Drink Now - 2037
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User Tags:  character, allspice, bramble fruits, spices, finish - long, easy drinking, raspberry, clear, consommés, stock 


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Port wine is one of the great dessert wines of the world. Based on a blend that usually features Touriga Nacional, vintage Port is a rich red wine witch is fortified with grape spirits. It combines the chewy, tannic bite of red wine with a sweetness that helps buffer the added alcohol and supports the spicy plum and dark berry fruits. Vintage Port is capable of aging and improving for decades. Other types of Port include Ruby Port, which is enjoyed in its youth for it fresh fruit, Tawny Port, which has been aged in wood for years giving it its tawny color and progressively nuttier flavors as the wine increases in age, and Colheita port, which is a Tawny Port from a single vintage.

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This Vintage is beginning to show some of the wonderful characteristics of bottle-matured wine. It can be drunk now but will repay a few more years in your cellar. Drinking extremely well now, and is a very good buy, as it fetches modest prices yet is much better than other more expensive years.


 

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Rating: 91/100 - As reviewed by Wine Spectator on 12/31/99


 

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Rating: 88/100 - As reviewed in Buying Guide, 2nd Edition # B4 on Jan-89


 

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