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1952 Graham's, Diamond Jubilee, Single Harvest Tawny Port, Portugal (Custom-Made Gift Case)

  • Red
  • Luscious
  • Full Bodied
Drink now
Jancis Robinson MW
18/20
Product: 19528108270
1952 Graham's, Diamond Jubilee, Single Harvest Tawny Port, Portugal (Custom-Made Gift Case)

Description

Striking mahogany, with hints of amber at its rim, the wine has an extraordinary aromatic intensity, redolent of old libraries, autumnal bonfires and distant poetry. The palate is profound and majestic, astonishingly intense and powerful, regal in its complexity, a timeless elixir. Notes of molasses, dried apricot, figs and clove, dance across the palate, elegant and symphonic in their structure, dignified and profound. Orange zest freshness and finely-wrought tannins underwrite structural harmony with the long finish indulging a gentle nostalgia and a real sense of worth.
(Simon Field MW, Berrys’ Port Buyer)
Presented in a custom-made gift box.

Graham’s Colheita Port Vintage 1952 is a 60 year old single-vintage Tawny Port (the official name for vintage dated Tawnies is Colheita), released to commerate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. It’s fabulous and expensive, but good value when you compare it to other fine wines with this much complexity and interest.The palate is rounded, intense and lively with warm, complex, almost impossibly intense flavours of raisin, spice, herbs and citrus fruits. Power and precision.
(96/100 points - Jamie Goode - wineanorak.com- April 2012)
Colour Red
Sweetness Luscious
Vintage 1952
Alcohol % 20
Maturity Drink now
Body Full Bodied
Producer Graham

Critics reviews

Jancis Robinson MW 18/20
"..I absolutely love this style of port, a long aged colheita (the sort of thing that houses like Niepoort have specialised in), when it's good and this one is very, very good. The fumes from a wine like this perfume an entire room. Here are just some of the aromas I noted when I first tasted it 10 days ago and when I smelt it again yesterday chez Berry Bros, who are the exclusive retailers of it in the UK (It can also be bought in Portugal): Walnuts, dried citrus peel, prunes, an edge of parmesan. With such a long time spent in cask (six in all, if I understood correctly), it is of course pale tawny with pale greenish rim and is rancio-issimo, but it is incredibly heady and rich without any sort of meagre skinniness." jancis_robinson_mw MW - Wine of the Week - JancisRobinson.com - 04-May-12) Lovely nutty, dried citrus-peel tawny with pale greenish rim. Ranco-issimo but lots of richness and no skinniness. Heady and prunes. Edge of parmesan. jancis_robinson_mw MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17 July 2012
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Jul 2012)

About this wine

Graham

W & J Graham was originally a Glasgow-based textiles firm, founded by two brothers William and John Graham, which became port shippers in the early 1800s. The family already had extensive business interests in Scotland and India but they decided to channel their considerable resources and energy towards the pursuit of the Port industry.
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