Tasting note

The 2003 Taylor's has a lovely ripe, primal bouquet of blackberry, raspberry, vanilla and marmalade ... The palate is medium-bodied with very composed, refined tannins that belie the heat of that summer. There is wonderful focus here and fine tension, the finish offering precise notes of black cherries, mulberry, cloves and white pepper. This is one of the finest Ports of a precocious vintage. Score - 95. (Neal Martin, robertparker.com, June 27, 2013)

Inky purple and black in colour with a narrow magenta rim. Classic Taylor nose, with exotic scents of violet and gum cistus set against an impenetrable background of intense dark berry fruit. Stylish and racy palate, displaying a tight fabric of sinewy tannins and packed with concentrated grapey flavors which intensify through the seemingly endless finish. Like many other great Taylor Fladgate vintages this wine is an archetype of restrained power, its elegance and breeding concealing massive inner strength and stamina.