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17/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalThis is a benchmark 10-year-old tawny port for a reason. It strikes a beautiful balance between fresh fruit and mature notes from cask-aging, making for an impressively complex tawny with soft red fruits and orange peel, alongside spice, walnut, and seasoned wood. I love the balance, slightly drier in style (though still sweet, to be sure) with beautifully integrated alcohol, with impressive concentration and polish. A must-have for the holiday season. Bottled in 2022.Tasted: 30 September 2022Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284
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16¾/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalTaylor Fladgate’s 10 Year Old Tawny (bottled in 2022) leads with dried fruits and a hint of savoury nuts and peppery spices. The residual sugar is slightly less (107g/L) than that of regular 10 YO Tawnys but sweetness from the elevated fruit concentration makes it feel sweeter and richer. Great integration of the warm alcohol, a fair amount of fine tannins, and marked acidity provides structure to ensure future ageability.Tasted: 26 November 2022Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284
92POINTS
17/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalTaylor Fladgate's 10 Year Old Tawny is the real deal. Even at just 10 years, this isn't short on the mature, rancio notes that make tawny port so compelling. But you also get some freshness to the red fruits alongside spice and wood notes to complement the nuts and candied citrus peel. Beautifully balanced, this doesn't drink like it has 110 g/L residual sugar. So, it's easy to pour a second small glass, especially with its fine, silky tannins. Recommended and good value.Tasted: 29 March 2021Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284
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16¼/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalA classic, for a reason. Still showing youthful energy, with grippy roasted and salted almonds, golden raisins, marmalade, kept juicy with mouthwatering acidity and helmed with moderately silky tannins. Creme brûlée lingers on the warming end. While smooth, in the Taylor way, this relatively youthful Tawny is still firmly and spirited, and welcomes pairing with walnut or hazelnut torte or mature cheeses.Tasted: 15 December 2017Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284
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16¼/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalSweet salted hazelnuts, orange marmalade, caramel, classic, for a reason. Still showing youthful energy, with grippy roasted and salted almonds, mouthwatering and juicy acidity and the moderately silky tannins, all well coated by fine caramelized sugar. Fine perfumed orange oil on the rear.Tasted: 21 December 2016Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284
90POINTS
16½/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalA mainstay tawny with ample interest and great complexity for its price. Salted almond and walnut leads to crème caramel, orange peel, fig and toffee flowing across a silky palate. Lively acidity keeps this fresh through to the nutmeg spiced, salty finish. Classic 10 YO Tawny you can pour all fall and winter.Tasted: 24 December 2015Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284
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16¾/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalAlways a style template the Taylor's 10 Year Old is sufficiently complex yet eminently drinkable – a great introduction to tawny ports. The colour is garnet orange showing its barrel age the nose a nutty spicy, fig, brown sugar affair with flecks of pipe tobacco, nutmeg and orange peel. The palate is aromatic with almonds, toffee and spice that finishes long and sweet. The final blend is a mix of individual 630 litre casks aged for an average of 10 years. Serve fireside with friends or a great book. A real bargain in the wine world.Tasted: 15 July 2015Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284
90POINTS
16½/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalHigh toned orange oil and burnished mandarin, bruléed brown sugar, tobacco, golden raisins, salted roasted almonds and pure maple syrup richness, in a smooth, spicy and lengthy pour. 10 year old Tawny refers to the average age of the wines in the blend. There are classics, and then there are CLASSICS, and Taylor 10 is capital C. What I appreciate so about this wine is that it instantly appeals to novice port drinkers, as well as to experienced tasters - it all depends on how deep into the layers you go.Tasted: 08 September 2014Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284
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16¾/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalAlways a style template the Taylor's 10 Year Old is sufficiently complex yet eminently drinkable. Garnet orange in colour look for nutty spicy, brown sugar, raisined nose flecked with pipe tobacco, nutmeg and orange peel. Look for bits of almonds dark chocolate toffee and spice with both sweetness and length that finishes long and silky. The final blend is a mix of individual 630 litre casks aged for an average of 10 years. Serve fireside with friends or a great book.Tasted: 13 October 2013Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284
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17/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalTaylor's 10 Year Old Tawny is a blend of individual 630 litre casks aged for an average of 10 years. The colour is pleasingly tawny the nose infatuating. Look for bits of almonds dark chocolate toffee and spice with superb sweetness and length. The finish is long silky and polished with more toffee orange and fig notes. Serve slightly chilled fireside with walnuts or try it with an almond cake.Tasted: 03 November 2011Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284
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17¼/20
Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny NV
Douro Valley, Northern Portugal, PortugalTaylor's Ten Year Old Tawny Port is dessert in a bottle. Don't let its pale, tawny colour fool you. This wine is bigger than it looks. After spending an average of ten years in wood the purple hues are gone and in exchange you get a mellow elegant sophisticated drink chock full of raisins nuts and chocolate but with lively acidity and a caramel honey finish. Serve slightly chilled and be prepared for your guests to rave about it.Tasted: 26 November 2008Tasted by: Prices:BC | $41.99 | 750ml | BCLS |
AB | $35.00 | 750ml | select private retailers |
MB | $34.99 | 750ml | |
ON | $34.99 | 750ml | LCBO |
QC | $32.95 | 750ml | SAQ |
Blend: Touriga Nacional - Touriga FrancaCSPC: 121749UPC: 5013626111284