Monday 22 October 2012

PX VORS 16%, Harveys

Appearance
Opaque black through burnt sienna to narrow greeny-yellow rim, viscous with long slow tinted legs.
Nose
Full, old and complex, concentrated pasas (raisins), toast (verging on burnt), coffee, tight and serious, some treacle bitter black chocolate and molasses, slight aroma of cake.
Palate
Quite light in weight, but intensely flavoured, pasas and molasses on well-done toast, so tasty you hardly notice the sweetness, but a slight tang there too, licorice, coffee and chocolate come through slowly as it evolves on the palate, hardly a trace of wood.
Comments
A beautiful wine, old, balanced and intense, a classic VORS (over 30 years old), from a solera established in 1919. It scores 90 points in Penin.Hopefully these more serious wines from Harveys will help restore its reputation.

Price
£ 21.49 for a 50cl bottle at Waitrose, a good price.

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