Warre's 1985
Vintage Port
A stylish and elegant wine with layers upon layers of fruit.
Description
Tremendous backbone with a rich complexity of balanced fruit showing through. This elegant wine has the characteristic Warre flowery nose and its solidity shows it to be a lasting Vintage.
Our Expert's Recommendation
"This Vintage is beginning to show some of the wonderful characteristics of bottle matured wine. It can be drunk now but will repay a few more years in your cellar."
Press Comments
"When I last tried this two years ago, it was a wonderful heady mix of figs, coffee and raisins, backed up by a core of soft damson fruits. Excellent port, that is probably at its peak, and will remain there for another decade or so."
The 1985 Warre he decanted made up for the inconvenience. It was drinking beautifully as we shivered, puffed and sipped away. It was soft and fruity with loads of blackberry and raspberry character. Sweet and round textured, it still had a long life ahead of it. 93 points, non-blind. (Although it was so dark outside it should be noted as blind!).
There’s something great about hanging out with your friends smoking a cigar and drinking a glass of Port. It’s more than that. It’s just being together.
"Very very dark. Sweet, spicy, liquorice nose. Very broad start to the palate and then dried fruits on the finish. Lots of firm tannins still. Still relatively embryonic. Heat on the finish. Lovely spice on the finish. Not the most stereotypically feminine Warre style of wine. Powerful finish. Almost brawny with some wild fruit and flower flavours on the nose. Still chewy."
“With much better depth than the weaklings in this flight, this wine has lots of black among the red. Savoury, earthy, touches of coal and charcoal, with deep spicy fruits: impressive, well-constructed aromas. Rich-textured, lush, almost salty flavours, with big piles of fruit heaped up one upon the other and a real warm brandied base beneath. Big, welcoming and extravagant, the kind of style I tend to think of a Graham’s but this wouldn’t dishonour any leading shipper, and in the bordello of ’85 it is very definitely a good deed. Lovely, exuberant, extravagant Vintage Port for the mid-term”.
“…great vinosity, prunes, figs; sweet, fairly full-bodied, fleshy, elegant, beautifully balanced. A archetypal Warre…Very dry fragrant finish. With Graham my top ‘85”.
“Wet violets and undergrowth on the bouquet. Lots of roasted fruit on the palate. Great depth – one of the most multi-dimensional 1985s. Finish of roasted currants and gummy liquorice”.
James Suckling, Vintage Port, Published 1990
91 Points
“There is plenty of grip and backbone here. Deep purple, with concentrated grape and violet aromas, full-bodied, with a huge grapy flavors, excellent backbone and a long finish”.
"This is a perfect example of the incredibly well-balanced and concentrated 1985 Vintage. This wine is packed with fruit on the nose and palate with a tight firm structure."
"Excellent colour. A lot of quality and depth here, marvellous fruit, real voluptuous depth, will be silky in time. Full body, quite some tannins but these are very ripe. A very stylish, elegant wine with excellent fruit."
“WARRE has been making exceptionally fine Ports of late and their 1985 is the sweetest and richest of their recent Vintages. Extremely concentrated, rich, even luscious, this full bodied, intense, opulent wine has layers of fruit, a full blown bouquet and impeccable balance”.
Additional Information
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