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Quarles Harris 1983

Vintage Port

A great value port.

Our Expert's Recommendation

" This wine is now beginning to reach its full maturity and is likely to be ready for drinking. As it ages further, it will begin to develop gently into a more tawny style wine."

Press Comments

"Good weight of sweet fruit with a fragrant long finish."
Derek Smedley , Wine International
01/07/2003

“Good lively colour, spicy aromatic nose. Sweet, long and complex”.
Tim Stanley-Clarke , Wine
01/12/2001

“Pleasant, perfumed and cedery. Elegant, very good drinking. Very attractive”.
Charles Metcalfe , Wine
01/12/2001

“Tight, concentrated nose, with a fruity, smokey edge. Many layers of flavour on the palate, with excellent length.”
Conal Gregory , Decanter Magazine
01/02/2000

"Closed and brooding nose, with underlying intensity. Big palate; tough and tight, well structured, with lovely mint fruit; powerful; a classic."
Richard Mayson , Decanter Magazine
01/02/2000

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