“This ripe, generous wine offers soft tannins and black fruits. The wine's spirit and pepper touch emphasize its sweetness, conveying black raisins. Acidity cuts a satisfying swathe at the end.” 

“A soft, aged tawny Port, this has sweet fruitiness that contrasts with the developing wood-aged flavors. The balance is just right, a young aged tawny still bursting with fruit.” 

A bigger and more powerful wine than the regular 2016 (although that had two years more in the bottle), this is fairly intense and less evolved. It maintains many of the other themes, including reasonable mid-palate finesse (although the 2016 wins there), good structure and perhaps a high-toned hint, although not really an issue here. (I'm wondering if perhaps there is something in the grape blend producing that.) Overall, this is very well crafted with a refined feel.

Much along the same lines of the 2020 release I saw last year, this is a gentle 20-Year with a hit of sugar and a very youthful feel. The extra year in bottle has tamed the sugar just a bit, so this does seem a little better balanced now. That extra year doesn't change the rest of the picture, though. This remains very gentle and understated, perhaps even more so. There's not a lot of power, but it has enough depth to balance the fruit and sugar.

More obviously tawny in colour than the 10 Year Old. More complex aromas too. Dried fruits and candied peel but also a more nutty quality with caramelised fruit. Rich, deep and beautifully fresh on the palate with an intense flavour of caramelised orange and orange peel. Excellent integration of the spirit here, mouth-filling but finishes fresh even with all that sweetness. Very long. Impressive.

Very dark like the skins of black cherries. Complex aroma of black fruit, dried cherry, the beginning of a leathery aroma. Smooth and dense on the palate, the tannins thick and smooth. Still very youthful, and at the tipping point between fresh fruit and bottle-aged flavours. Chewy, generous, rich.

Still lots of red in the colour here, just some tawny colour at the rim. The spirit is so well integrated that you don't notice it on the nose and the rich aroma of dried fruits and dried citrus peel are to the fore, and still some notes of red fruits. Smells remarkably young and fruity for a 10-year-old tawny. Sweet and smooth with a marked caramel and caramelised-orange flavour on the palate. Zingy, generous and harmonious. A really good 10-year-old packed with fruit and incipient complexity. Fresh and persistent.

Juicy and plump in feel, with toasted raisin bread, cinnamon, bergamot, mulled cherry and fruitcake notes streaming through nicely.

Elegant and focused, with a mature bent to its mix of cinnamon, tea, sandalwood, date and caramel notes. Stylish finish has a twinge of walnut husk keeping it grounded.

With a mature edge to a mix of warm plum cake and steeped blackberry fruit mixed with bittersweet cocoa and bramble accents. Nice singed alder hint frames the finish.

Even sweeter than the 10 Years Tawny, this happily adds some concentration to soak up a little of the sugar. It is still in the same style—dominated by its sugar, rather fresh, not particularly intense and with the typical complexity of a mature Tawny relegated to the background. This does add a little complexity, though, and its extra concentration is very welcome. On the whole, this lush and sexy Tawny drinks well, tastes great and is a lot of fun. 

Always a perfect stage for a tawny Port, this wine is sumptuous while also having some dryness and elegant old gold character.

Powerful and intense, this opens up with concentrated, slightly jammy fruit supported by a serious backbone. The fruit is rich and expressive.

This Vintage, superficially soft and fruity, is in fact still packed with dense tannins, giving a solid structure, some maturing sweetness and black fruits.

This young, dense and powerful wine is impressive for its structure of tannins and for the concentrated black plum and berry fruits.”

From old, field blend vineyards, this Port has a fine nutty character. It shares that with red fruits, gentle spice and a fine balance between sweetness and a drier core. This wine, rich and with toffee flavors.