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1970 GRAHAM'S Vintage Port / No Reserve, 1970

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1970 GRAHAM'S Vintage Port / No Reserve
1970 GRAHAM'S Vintage Port / No Reserve
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"Shipped and Bottles by Chritopher & C° Ltd SW1"

Fine looking bottle with a level just into neck or base of neck depending weather selling or buying...

A browse of WineSearcher reveals the cheapest GB price as £125 plus the VAT = £150. Easy to pay more though...

The price can be justified in reading the glowing reports from them what know, which are copied verbatim below :

94 points John Gilman
I drank quite a bit of the 1970 Graham’s over the course of the 1990s, but had not crossed paths with a bottle in several years until this most recent example. The wine is superb in 1970, as it displays a bouquet of voluptuous complexity, offering up scents of black cherry, plum, cedar, fresh mint, chocolate, a bit of tobacco leaf, and lovely, estery floral top notes. On the palate the wine is focused and opulent, with fine framing acidity adding a note of precision to the attack, and with excellent freshness and balance on the softly tannic, long and creamy finish. This is a classic example of Graham’s in its more extroverted and fruit-driven style, and it should continue to drink well for the next forty or more years. Drink between 2003-2050. (2/2007)

94 points Wine Spectator
This is an extremely full-bodied, powerful wine, but it still retains a classy balance. Deep ruby, with chocolate and berry aromas, full-bodied, with anise and dried cherry flavours, full, hard tannins and a long finish. Good now but a few more years of bottle age would improve it. (JS, Web Only-1989)

93 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Graham is another great port house, producing one of the deepest-coloured and sweetest styles of vintage port. Along with Taylor and Fonseca, Graham has probably been the most consistent producer of great port in the post- World War II era. Their tawnys are quite good rather than exceptional, but their vintage ports are truly sublime and sumptuous. The 1970 is a monumental vintage port and one of the greats of the vintage. (RP) (1/1989)

Jancis Robinson
Charles Symington chose to serve this wine at his wedding – no greater praise! 1970 was the year the Syms bought Graham’s. Translucent ruby with rusty rim. Very complex tertiary bouquet, decongestant (aniseed?) aromas and wonderfully sweet but very far from sickly on the palate with some vestiges of tannin. Just beautiful balance with sufficient freshness and vitality. Still very vigorous. A remarkably youthful bottle. 18.5/20 points (JR) (5/2017)

92 points Neal Martin's Wine Journal: "Tasted at John E. Fells portfolio tasting. A Porto bottling this, but with a definite Bordeaux-like nose! Well defined, foursquare at first, opening up nicely with maraschino cherries, cloves, burnt wood/embers and bergamot, gaining intensity all the time in the glass. The palate is very harmonious and elegant (not dissimilar in texture to a ’63 opened a couple of months earlier.) Fleshy, harmonious, seductive on the palate with allspice, nutmeg and ginger sprinkled over the viscous finish and finally, freshly rolled tobacco on the aftertaste. Good length, powerful like many of the 1970 ports continue to be. Superb. Drink now-2020+." (05/2010)

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225779

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1970 GRAHAM'S Vintage Port / No Reserve

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1 bottles, 75cl each

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Fortified

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Base of Neck (BN)

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1 bottle £12, 2 bottles £14, 3-12 bottles £16 & 13-24 bottles £20 to mainland Britain. Elsewhere, please ask for a quote.
From BA22, Somerset, United Kingdom
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"Shipped and Bottles by Chritopher & C° Ltd SW1"

Fine looking bottle with a level just into neck or base of neck depending weather selling or buying...

A browse of WineSearcher reveals the cheapest GB price as £125 plus the VAT = £150. Easy to pay more though...

The price can be justified in reading the glowing reports from them what know, which are copied verbatim below :

94 points John Gilman
I drank quite a bit of the 1970 Graham’s over the course of the 1990s, but had not crossed paths with a bottle in several years until this most recent example. The wine is superb in 1970, as it displays a bouquet of voluptuous complexity, offering up scents of black cherry, plum, cedar, fresh mint, chocolate, a bit of tobacco leaf, and lovely, estery floral top notes. On the palate the wine is focused and opulent, with fine framing acidity adding a note of precision to the attack, and with excellent freshness and balance on the softly tannic, long and creamy finish. This is a classic example of Graham’s in its more extroverted and fruit-driven style, and it should continue to drink well for the next forty or more years. Drink between 2003-2050. (2/2007)

94 points Wine Spectator
This is an extremely full-bodied, powerful wine, but it still retains a classy balance. Deep ruby, with chocolate and berry aromas, full-bodied, with anise and dried cherry flavours, full, hard tannins and a long finish. Good now but a few more years of bottle age would improve it. (JS, Web Only-1989)

93 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Graham is another great port house, producing one of the deepest-coloured and sweetest styles of vintage port. Along with Taylor and Fonseca, Graham has probably been the most consistent producer of great port in the post- World War II era. Their tawnys are quite good rather than exceptional, but their vintage ports are truly sublime and sumptuous. The 1970 is a monumental vintage port and one of the greats of the vintage. (RP) (1/1989)

Jancis Robinson
Charles Symington chose to serve this wine at his wedding – no greater praise! 1970 was the year the Syms bought Graham’s. Translucent ruby with rusty rim. Very complex tertiary bouquet, decongestant (aniseed?) aromas and wonderfully sweet but very far from sickly on the palate with some vestiges of tannin. Just beautiful balance with sufficient freshness and vitality. Still very vigorous. A remarkably youthful bottle. 18.5/20 points (JR) (5/2017)

92 points Neal Martin's Wine Journal: "Tasted at John E. Fells portfolio tasting. A Porto bottling this, but with a definite Bordeaux-like nose! Well defined, foursquare at first, opening up nicely with maraschino cherries, cloves, burnt wood/embers and bergamot, gaining intensity all the time in the glass. The palate is very harmonious and elegant (not dissimilar in texture to a ’63 opened a couple of months earlier.) Fleshy, harmonious, seductive on the palate with allspice, nutmeg and ginger sprinkled over the viscous finish and finally, freshly rolled tobacco on the aftertaste. Good length, powerful like many of the 1970 ports continue to be. Superb. Drink now-2020+." (05/2010)

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Item Details

Item ID:

225779

Name:

1970 GRAHAM'S Vintage Port / No Reserve

Producer:

Quantity / Size:

1 bottles, 75cl each

Duty Status:

Duty Paid

Wine Type:

Fortified

Fill Level:

Base of Neck (BN)

Ended:

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Shipping

1 bottle £12, 2 bottles £14, 3-12 bottles £16 & 13-24 bottles £20 to mainland Britain. Elsewhere, please ask for a quote.
From BA22, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Worldwide, but not USA, all too complicated...

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