Another bottle of this sadly-all-sold-now bargain port, about nine months after the previous sampling.
This is a bottle I have had open for five days now, albeit refrigerated in shrinking sizes of container as about a glass a night has been consumed.
The colour remains 95% opaque with red rim. The herbaceous nose - eucalyptus, mint - continues in effect. The palate of poached plums and pontefract cakes still charms. The tannins are fairly unemphatic for a 2007, more Green-and-Blacks-70%-chocolatey rather than anything more aggressive, and there isn't too much wood, so there's some fruit even on the finish.
While I think it does still absolutely require 24 hours before you start consumption, to allow the heat time to blow off, this remains by a very wide margin the port bargain of 2019. If you have several bottles, do try one. If you have one bottle give it another three or four years...
2007 Marks and Spencer
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