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Taylor Fladgate
Late Bottled Vintage Porto 2019
93 Points
jamessuckling.com
March 15, 2024

This is complex and powerful, offering notes of ripe but vivid black and blue fruit, crushed violets, coffee liqueur, wet stones and earth. Full-bodied and concentrated with firm tannins and walnuty character. Its not overly sweet and very lively on the palate, showing delicious fruit within the darker spectrum

– James Suckling
Taylor Fladgate
Late Bottled Vintage Porto 2019
93 Points
jamessuckling.com
March 6, 2024

This is complex and powerful, offering notes of ripe but vivid black and blue fruit, crushed violets, coffee liqueur, wet stones and earth. Full-bodied and concentrated with firm tannins and walnuty character. Its not overly sweet and very lively on the palate, showing delicious fruit within the darker spectrum. Long and mineral.

– James Suckling
Taylor Fladgate
Late Bottled Vintage Porto 2018
92 Points
Wine Spectator
August 29, 2023

Shows a nice core of dark currant and fig fruit that’s been steeped with anise, alder and bittersweet cocoa. Give this a little time in a decanter or cellar for another couple of winters. Possesses the stuffing to cover slow sipping over a weekend.

– James Molesworth
Taylor Fladgate
Late Bottled Vintage Porto 2018
93 Points
jamessuckling.com
May 31, 2023

Notes of sweet plums, chocolate and cedar with some floral undertones. Full-bodied, dense and mellow with sweet berry character. Creamy and polished. Drink or hold.

– James Suckling
Fonseca
Late Bottled Vintage Porto 2016
90 Points
Wine Advocate
August 10, 2022

The 2016 Late Bottled Vintage Port was bottled in May 2022 with 102 grams of residual sugar and a bar-top cork. It is a field blend aged for 72 months in wood. This is unfiltered, alone among the Fladgate Group’s LBVs. Easily the most expressive of the Group’s LBVs, this is still made in an accessible, easy fashion without big tannins or a lot of depth, and it is not supposed to be a wine to be held and aged a long time. In the long run, therefore, it isn’t really much of a step up, if at all. Key trade-offs here, though, as with its siblings, are a great price point, lots of flavor and immediate accessibility. It is very elegant.

– Mark Squires
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