Moderately deep, orange-brown colour with some depth and
light tawny hues on the edge. The nose
is soft and deeply concentrated with packed aromas of dark, savoury plum fruit
with caramel and toffee elements, nutty oak and suggestions of complexing
rancio elements. Sweet to taste and
full-bodied, the palate has flavours of savoury dark plums, caramel and toffee,
nutty oak and rancio detail. The
flavours are up-front, and driven by fine, firm, clean spirit with a touch of
fire. The palate carries along a
fine-textured phenolic line, with balanced acidity, leading to a light, dry
finish of nuts and caramel. This is an
up-front port more in the tawny style, with plum, caramel, toffee and nutty
flavours with good clean spirit and a light, dry finish. Serve with nuts, dried fruits and blue
cheese. This will remain in this stable
state for many years. This is a concentrated
port wine with plum, caramel and nutty oak flavours more akin to Tawny in
style. Syrah fruit from
the 2012 vintage fermented with distilled spirit from ‘Kings Liquor’ added to
reach 18.0% alc. and 55 g/L RS, the wine aged 6 years in seasoned oak until
bottling in March 2018. (500 ml) 16.5+/20
Nov 2017 RRP $49.99