2020 Warre (350 Anniversary Edition)

The 2020 Vintage Port Vinhas Velhas is a commemorative year of the 350th anniversary of Warre's. It is a field blend aged for 18 months in old oak vats. It comes in with 113 grams of residual sugar. Aromatic and tight, this is a typically elegant Warre's, a bottling that always seems to show mid-palate finesse. With a couple of hours of decanting, it showed more nuanced fruit too, but this initially finished with a little harshness. The alcohol is currently beaten down by the fruit, but I'd like to see it develop a bit as it holds its balance. It's fair to note, as Charles Symington did, that it was only in bottle a few weeks. A decanted version showed far better, a very good and promising sign. This has upside potential in the cellar, but there are some things to prove given the price range. There were just 2,400 bottles produced.