1961 | Taylor | Very Old Single Harvest

A dark-coloured tawny with a ruddy mahogany hue and saffron and olive green rim; bright but deep golden topaz with glass tilted. Taylor’s Single Harvest Port 1961 is rich, sweet and enticing on the nose, with roasted almond, candied walnut and toasted coconut nuances to its mouth-watering fruit chutney nose. A hint of smooth, creamy Café Crème cigar too, which follows through in the mouth. The palate is indeed mouth-watering. A lively, intensely concentrated core of spicy, sweet and sour apricot chutney with citrus accents makes for an animated palate. Its swirl of nutty, spicy, cedarwood flavours sing on the long, sweet, jaggery (not quite molasses, but deeper than caramel) finish. Jaggery in flavour and lively onomatopeic mouthfeel, this is a singular Single Harvest Port; very good.

Producer Information

Taylor Fladgate (often referred to as "Taylor's") is one of the most important Port houses in the Douro region of northern Portugal. Taylor's is notable for its wide range of traditional ports, from vintage expressions to tawny ports of various ages, and also for its creation of the Late Bottled Vintage, or LBV, style.The genesis of the company began 1692 when English wine merchant Job Bearsley arrived in Portugal, although it would be many years and owners before it came to be known as Taylor's. Bearsley initially traded in red Portuguese wine from the northwest of the country, and in 1744, under his grandson Bartholomew, the company became the first British wine merchant to buy a property in the Douro.Taylor's changed hands often during the 19th and 20th Centuries, coming under control of both Joseph Taylor and John Fladgate, who gave the company its name.

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