Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port 2017 3L Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence and powerful

and powerful

but it’s impossible to say which citrus fruit it is because it seems to flicker from Amalfi lemon to bergamot and then to pomelo

A melange of bright minerality

such as cherries and strawberries

and smashed blackberry fill the glass while bay leaves

Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port 2017 3L Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence and powerfulOpaque black at the centre with a narrow purple rim. Uncompromisingly Taylors in style, elegant and precise. The nose is threaded with very fine, linear fruit, heady and complex but restrained by a graphite minerality. Quinta da Vargellas has imprinted its signature fragrance of violets, which hangs like a scented veil over the wine, and there are discreet terroir notes of citrus, wild herbs and gumcistus. The nose is still reserved but there is