Barros Port Tawny Port
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102 Barros Special Edition Very Old Tawny Port
***95 Point- Wine Advocate***
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Bottle size: 75cl
ABV: 20%
Price:
$253.40 USD
Description
This limited edition Very Old Tawny port is blended from five different vintages from each decade from the 1950's to the 1990's representing 5 decades of wine making passion, talent and art. Having aged in small oak barrels over half a century, these wines have evolved and developed a unique character. This exclusive blend is limited to 1913 bottles only! Barros Special Edition 102 – Very Old Tawny completes the trilogy of wines that make the collection “A Century of Portuguese Talent“, created to celebrate the first centenary of the House of Barros, established in 1913.
The Port wine has an “amber colour with greenish hues, aromas of apricot and dried fig, toasted almond, nutmeg and hazelnut, with notes of spice and smoke”. Carlos Alves, Sogevinus Fine Wines’ winemaker of Port wines, describes his blend as “silky, elegant and sophisticated, with a deep finish, combining flavours of dried fruit and curry, and excellent freshness”.
The wines used in this blend Barros Special Edition 102 – Very Old Tawny have aged in small oak casks of 300 litres in the cellars of Barros in Vila Nova de Gaia. We have carefully selected five casks representing the decades 1950, ‘60, ‘70, ‘80 and ‘90 – numbered 11080, 11083, 11086, 11133 and 11134 – and blended them into an absolutely inspiring wine, which not only pays tribute to the history of Barros, but also honours the skill of blending in Port wine. A must have !
Food pairing
Excellent as an aperitif, with dried fruits and light sweet desserts (crème brûlée)
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Condition
Excellent-Bottled in 2019. Note this is a blend of vintages from 5 decades.
It is included in this vintage due to the reference of 5 decades of passion and the connection to a 50th anniversary gift.
Reviews
*** 95 Points Mark Squires Wine Advocate ***
The NV Very Old Tawny Port 102 is another in Barros's special anniversary releases—they had a 101 and a 100 previously. They will be made through "105" in coming years. This is a blend of five Colheita Tawnies from the 1950s to the 1990s, with each subsequent release getting younger. For instance, the last release I saw, the "101," covered the 1940s to the 1980s. It comes in with a fancy bar-top cork and 146 grams of residual sugar. Lighter styled but fresh, delicious and wonderfully elegant, this is along the same lines as the "101," but perhaps a bit fresher. It is beautifully done, delicious and lingering, lifted and precise. It doesn't have the big mid-palate old tawnies often do, but everything else makes up for that. Barros tends to be a bit understated in style generally. This is balanced enough to make you want to drink it all night. But it is Port—so, that's a mistake. There were 1,913 bottles produced—the founding date of the producer.