Taylor's Vintage Port 2016 Chateau Lynch Bages tobacco and fresh leather top

tobacco and fresh leather top notes and a core of wild strawberry fruit

The nose shows dark fruit aromas

spice and an earthy note are underpinned by a gentle fuzzy texture

The palate full of thyme

spicy graphite restraint over the bruleed black berry opulence

Taylor's Vintage Port 2016 Chateau Lynch Bages tobacco and fresh leather topDark crimson but without the blueish purple of the Grahams. Tight, refined nose rather claret like. Not as obviously sweet as some. Restrained aromatically: backward with sharp, linear blackcurrant and violet notes. This tastes like a somewhat shouty, scratchy baby at the moment which is no criticism of a wine designed to age as long as a vintage port. But then there are masses of sweet fruit with liquorice surrounded in a scratchy skein of tannins