Taylor Fladgate Late Bottled Vintage Port 2011

Professional Ratings

• 93 Wine & Spirits
  Taylor introduced the filtered, stopper-corked style of LBV in the 1950s, offering a top-quality wine that’s ready to pour on release and stays fresher after opening than a Vintage Port. This may be the best wine they’ve produced in the style. It carries some of Taylor’s signature tannic structure, a note of austere mineral power to underline the bold fruit richness. That fruit comes in octaves of cherry flavor, floral cassis notes and scents of raspberry cordial. Expressive and delicious.
• 91 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The 2011 Late Bottled Vintage Port (bottled in October 2015) is a field blend aged for 58 months. It comes with a bar top cork and 106 grams per liter of residual sugar. Inky black, this highly extracted Port has sensual texture and an unctuous finish laced with delicious, primary fruit flavor. It's a rather sexy LBV this year, big, dense and mouth-coating. It has a fair bit of power, too. For an LBV to drink now, this is simply beautiful. It is not necessarily expected to go anywhere--it's made for drinking now--but it can certainly hold if you choose to do so, barring cork failures.