"Jancis Robinson 18.5/20
Deep blackish purple. Lovely lift and savour. Slight hint of sawdust on extremely luscious fruit then some fine tannins. Pretty interesting, if non-classic wine. A real flatterer. Long but with great interest. Dry finish.
Tasted in 2004
Robert Parker 91/100;
Straightforward yet intense, ripe black raspberry liqueur and cassis scents are followed by a medium to full-bodied, elegant, restrained, balanced port with moderately high tannin as well as outstanding purity. It is a vintage port with impeccable finesse. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2020. Tasted 2002
Richard Mayson 16.5/20 - Tasted in 2009;
Again, very good colour; closed, slighly hot and a touch baked on the nose; rich and slightly stewed on the palate, firm gravelly tannins with purity and definition emerging on the finish. Perhaps at a difficult stage. www.richardmayson.com"
Founded in 1670, Warre’s is the first and oldest British Port company established in Portugal. The Warre’s name is synonymous with the history of Port and the company was a pioneer of the Port trade. For more than three hundred years the company has produced some of the greatest Ports ever made. Lt General Sir William Warre, born into the already well-established Port family, joined the Duke of Wellington’s Peninsular Army and had a brave and distinguished career in the Napoleonic campaigns from 1807 to 1814, where he played a leading role in the liberation of his native country. His contemporary diaries and letters are an invaluable source to historians. Andrew James Symington became a partner in Warre’s in 1905 and assumed full responsibility for the vineyards, winemaking and cellars in 1912 on the return of the Warre family to the UK after two centuries in Portugal. The company was owned by the Warre and Symington families jointly until the Warre’s finally sold their shares to the Symingtons in the 1950’s. Warre’s is famous for the feminine elegance of its Ports which come from the relatively high 29 hectare vineyard at Quinta da Cavadinha in the Pinhão Valley, the 22 hectare vineyard at Quinta do Retiro in the Rio Torto Valley, and the 25 hectare Quinta da Telhada, in the upper reaches of the Douro Superior.
A widely heralded vintage of excellent ripeness and balance, that is now starting to drink - Aidan 2015
