KROHN 2002 COLHEITA PORT 750ml

WINE & SPIRITS: 90 POINTS - "Schisty and warm, this wine has held onto its dark berry fruit and stony tannins, even as it feels relatively light in weight. It’s a heady Iberian pleasure, a wine to serve lightly chilled with olives and almonds."

Sourced in the traditional way, from the highest-quality individual growers in the Douro Valley, where the varying altitude and aspect of the vineyards creates the potential for a complex wine of great character. Fermentation is halted by the addition of grape spirits before all the residual sugar has been fermented, creating a sweet, fortified wine. Single Harvest Tawny is a blend of ports from a single year which age to maturity in seasoned oak casks. The 2002 Colheita Tawny Port is a field blend bottled in 2017 with a long cork and 102 grams of residual sugar. This straightforward Colheita comes in at a nice price and is a decent effort in a tough vintage, even if it doesn't quite excel. There isn't a lot of concentration or power—of course, it's a relatively young tawny, but it seems fairly light by the time it airs out and warms a little. The complexity is a little nicer, as it finishes with a hint of molasses.