What "juice" is used for the Warre's LBV?

[AW77]

Does anyone know what base wine is used for Warre's LBV? Is it the Cavadinha SQVP simply kept in the big vat for two years longer? Or is it from vineyards with younger vines than is used for the usual VP blend? The Warre's website is not very informative on that.

[RAYC]

From the Warre bottle-matured LBV spec sheet:

Warre’s is alone in maintaining a small production of bottle matured Late Bottled Vintage Port (apart from its sister company Smith Woodhouse). Warre’s Late Bottled Vintage comes exclusively from prime quality vineyards whose finest wines will ”“ in exceptional years ”“ make up Warre’s renowned Vintage Ports. Primarily Quinta da Cavadinha and surrounding vineyards that have supplied the company uninterruptedly for generations, on the basis of close bonds nurtured over the centuries. Some of the wine comes from Quinta do Retiro, where all the wine is trodden in ‘lagares’ in the traditional way. These Quintas are located in the Pinhão and Torto valleys.

But Warre also make a filtered LBV - that may be different!

[AW77]

Thanks for the information.
It's the first time that I hear of a filtered Warre's LBV. Their website does not give any info on that and the price list I saw at the Graham's lodge does not include one. Do they currently produce it or was it only made in the past?

[djewesbury]

Thanks for the information.
It's the first time that I hear of a filtered Warre's LBV. Their website does not give any info on that and the price list I saw at the Graham's lodge does not include one. Do they currently produce it or was it only made in the past?

They make it currently as far as I know. I have some 2007s.

[djewesbury]

Thanks for the information.
It's the first time that I hear of a filtered Warre's LBV. Their website does not give any info on that and the price list I saw at the Graham's lodge does not include one. Do they currently produce it or was it only made in the past?

They make it currently as far as I know. I have some 2007s.

I am drinking one right now. It is less than very good: cherries, tightness, quite bitter and perhaps a little too acid. I wonder, does anybody know why they don't mention the fact that they make this filtered LBV? Same as the Smith Woodhouse: they make an unfiltered and a filtered, but do not mention anywhere online that they make the latter. Is this not a potential trap for the unsuspecting purchaser looking for something special, following a tip and not realising that they have bought a pup (*puts hand up*)?