Dow's 1983
Vintage Port
Small production but outstanding quality.
Description
A Vintage that has often been overcome by the 1985 but which merits more attention as the wine develops in bottle.
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
“Vibrant, garnet color with fiery highlights. Fruity, earthy nose. Very rich earth and not too much alcohol. As it warms, it gets fuller, with more spice and weight. Simply lovely”.
“…very ripe and round and lively with a certain freshness and punch. Long and powerful. Looking good for the future, a confident wine”.
“Berry fruit, rather tight. Good, quite austere with high tannins. Tight, firm, good”.
“Big, concentrated, focused and tannic. Very good, long and complex”.
“Lovely and full bodied”.
"Very stylish and big, with a classy balance of fruit and tannin. Deep ruby-purple, with a multidimensional nose of perfume and grapes, full-bodied, tannic and tightly knit."
"The 1983 is particularly first-class, and clearly one of the best of the vintage. It is a powerful young Port with a profusion of complex fruit flavours wrapped around a strong tannic backbone."
"The DOW 1983 is utterly beautiful, combining damsons with power".
"…the 1983, is rich, concentrated, very fruity, and magnificently perfumed…”
Additional Information
For more information about Dow's, please visit
http://www.dows-port.com/
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