N.V. The Last Drop Centenario 1870 & 1970

2x75cl

1 Immediate | 0 Marketplace

£3,327.00

Scores + Notes

Average Score

Critic Notes

Concentrated in cask to a very deep greenish brown with a bright yellow rim. Treacle toffee and salted-butter nose with the most delightfully rich, sweet, dried orange peel palate. You think it's going to be just a little bit too rancio but it's not. Surely this was refreshed from time to time but it tastes genuinely ancient without being decrepit. Great stuff! A real treat to taste a great wine this old. I do hope this does its bit to regenerate the port category and show just what the Douro Valley can do. Very gentle on the palate and remarkably clean considering its age with no excesses and just the right mount of refreshing acidity for the thick, lightly raised sweetness. Bravissimo! Very long. Presumably it was bottled very recently.

Score: 19-/20Jancis RobinsonDrinking Window: Drink now

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Product Details

Country

Portugal

Region

Port

Sub-region

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

Alcohol %

Product Type

Fortified wine

Product Subtype

Port

Drinking Window

Country

Portugal

Region

Port

Sub-region

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

Alcohol %

Product Type

Fortified wine

Product Subtype

Port

Drinking Window

Average Score

Critic Notes

Score: 19-/20Jancis RobinsonDrinking Window: Drink now

Our old friends Vergelegen drop into FINE+RARE for a tasting

BY FINE+RARE,

ON June 15, 2012

Montrachet Marquis de Laguiche Vertical Tasting with Véronique Drouhin

ON April 12, 2019

Musigny Grand Cru Vertical Tasting 1943 – 2007 with Veronique Drouhin

ON June 22, 2018

The last man standing: 2014 Ch. Montrose

ON June 2, 2015

2014 BORDEAUX: THE F+R PICKS. LEOVILLE-LASCASES

ON May 3, 2015

Country

Portugal

Region

Port

Sub-region

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

Alcohol %

Product Type

Fortified wine

Product Subtype

Port

Drinking Window

Country

Portugal

Region

Port

Sub-region

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

Alcohol %

Product Type

Fortified wine

Product Subtype

Port

Drinking Window

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