1997 Taylor Flatgate LBV Port

[TheEngineer]

Wow..

A garnet purple colour. Strong and thick this one is. Nose thick with black fruit, licorice, smokey, spicy and wet coniferous forest. Rich, thick, lush and soft on the palate. A little hot at the end but nicely balanced. Super long finish and persistence. Great value for about $26 per bottle.

[hotwine]

Agree, that one's a winner.

[barnesy]

I've been raving about this bottling for ages. Snap up whatever bottles you can, they've already come out with the 99 LBV and I can't find no mo '97 in my area. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/frown.gif[/img]

Barnesy

[TheEngineer]

Unfortunately, it was my only bottle... gotta go huntin....

Forgot that there was a string on this about a year ago,..would have added this to that string. ...consumed almost a 1/3 bottle the bottle tonight [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img]...gotta save some for tomorrow.

[This message has been edited by TheEngII (edited 02-16-2006).]

[Kcwhippet]

We have 97's in the shop.

[VouvrayHead]

i'm gonna look for this today!

[TheEngineer]

Thanks KC, I'll be by!

[Kcwhippet]

I'm working tomorrow from 9 to 3. Look for the oldest guy there.

[TheEngineer]

You weren't in a neck brace were you earlier this year?

[Kcwhippet]

Not me, that's the General Manager. I'm even older than he.

[winoweenie]

And I mite add much handsomer. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img] WW

[Kcwhippet]

Eng,

Here's what we have in stock. 1995 Warres, 1997 Ferreira and Dow's, 1998 Ramos Pinto and Dow's, 1999 Noval and taylor Flagate, 2000 Fonseca. That's just the vintage stuff, of course.

OK. Scratch the "oldest guy in the shop". The really old guy who never works weekends just came in. So, I'm now the second oldest guy in the shop - today.

[This message has been edited by Kcwhippet (edited 02-18-2006).]

[TheEngineer]

I never got out of my backyard KC. I'll look for you the next time I'm in.