Taylor's LBV 2017

• View: Red color, opaque on the meniscus with a narrow purple border.
• Nose: The nose is full of very exquisite and linear fruit, aromatic and complex, although contained by a graphite minerality.
• Mouth: The wine feels connected by agile and muscular tannins, firm and very chained, ending with a powerful wave of fresh and very pure wild fruits.

ELABORATION

Vintage Port remains in wood for about 20 months and is then transferred to the bottle where it will continue to age. Late Bottled Vintage, as its name suggests, is bottled later, remaining in wood for four to six years. During this relatively long wood aging period, the LBV matures and composes. Once bottled, it is ready to drink. It does not need to be decanted or drunk immediately, as once the bottle has been opened, it remains fresh for several weeks.

CURIOSITIES

LBV was developed as an alternative to Vintage Port. The idea was to create a quality wine that was more affordable and intended for immediate consumption, that could be drunk on a daily basis, without it being necessary to consume the entire bottle in one go. Pisado Although many other houses now have this wonderful style of wine, Taylor's LBV – the original Late Bottled Vintage – continues to be the reference Port wine within this category; the first choice of the consumer who knows about wine Port.

Known for their elegance and poise as well as their sober power and longevity, Taylor's Vintage Ports are made from the winery's best plots, Vargellas, Terra Feita and Junco.

Taylor's is also respected as a producer of wood-aged ports and has one of the largest reserves of vat-aged wines, from which its distinguished Tawny Port wines come.

The house is also well known for being the makers of Late Bottled Vintage, a style of which the winery is a pioneer and of which they continue to be leading producers.