Niepoort Ten Year Old Dry White ****

Deep straw in colour; pleasing, savoury, old fashioned, lanolin, musky-casky aromas with honey too, on the way to tawny in style; savoury-sweet flavours, honey and brazil nuts. Top notch, the best in a very small class of cask-aged white Ports. 18

Niepoort 1983  ****

Mid-deep with a thin browning rim; lovely ripe, dark chocolate aromas, open but still with more to give; rich yet characteristically firm dry tannins, very well-structured, cast-iron backbone, bitter chocolate intensity, quite dry in style and evolving very well. Very reassuring wine: sweet and structured. A really good example from a rather variable vintage. 18   

Location: Quinta de Napoles
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Warre 1970 **** / *****

Deep garnet centre, thin browning rim; very fine, fragrant floral aromas (violets) , open, perfumed and very fine; still rich and voluptuous in style, backed by cast iron tannins, bitter-sweet, dark chocolate concentration follwed by lovely rich plummy length. This has real integrity and is drinking beautifully now but will continue to evlove well for another decade or more. 18.5 

Location: Dinner with Paul and Jane Symington
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