Tasting note

This sweet ruby coloured wine features intense empyreumatic, spicy, fruity and vegetal scents and offers a full-bodied texture as well as fleshy tannins.

Dark and intensely purple right up to the rim. On the nose, a restrained and subtle aroma of rockrose and gum-cistus. On the mouth the Dow's 2003 has powerful and rich tannins with immense ripe fruit flavours. There are layers of bitter chocolate flavours with the characteristic freshly-ground black pepper finish. Less intensely sweet than all other leading Vintage Ports, Dow's 2003 has the thoroughbred drier style that will give excellent ageing potential.