2007 Wine and Port Vintage
Italian: This was an excellent vintage for Italian wines. A mild winter followed by a warm spring resulted in a lengthy ripening season; this produced well-structured, aromatic wines with plentiful but ripe, velvety tannins.
Bordeaux: The finest 2007 wines tend to be dark ruby-coloured with purple highlights, sweet, ripe berry fruit similar to black cherries and black currants, medium body, silky tannins, low acidity, and pure, round, charming personalities with good equilibrium. By and large, however, the wines lack density, structure, and serious long-term ageing potential. Most will be drinkable as soon as they are bottled, and should age surprisingly well for 10-15 years. Truthfully, most consumers will probably love the style of the vintage’s top wines because they are so flattering, seductive, and fruit-forward.
Champagne: An unusually warm spring led to early flowering and optimism which soon gave way to disappointment with one of the murkiest summers on record. Conditions improved towards September allowing a fair crop, with Chardonnay outperforming the Pinots. The Champagnes produced generally contain above average acidities.
Portugal:
The 2007 Port vintage was the first widely declared vintage since 2003; virtually every Port house that matters made a Vintage Port, attesting to the quality of the year. The growing season was preceded by a wet winter, which put plenty of moisture back into the soil after a lengthy period of dry conditions. Summer temperatures were relatively mild (unlike the torrid conditions in 2003, the last previous declared vintage). September and October weather was close to ideal so that the grapes enjoyed a lengthy hang-time under excellent conditions with full ripening of Turiga Francesa and Turiga Nacional, the two most important grape varieties. The quantities produced are small, so there is a high demand for them. There is little doubt that 2007 is a high class vintage, making a port from this year a great 16 year old wine gift for an anniversary this year.
Spain: After a miserable summer, frost in the latter half of September decimated the crop from many young Ribera del Duero vineyards. Most grapes struggled to ripen, but late pickers were rewarded.
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Fun Fact: Steve Jobs announced Apple’s very first smartphone, the iPhone 1!
Eurovision Winner: Serbia with the song "Militva" by Marija Serifovic
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Taylor's Port, 2007
Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha Vintage Port, Douro
***96/100- Falstaff****
The 2007 Taylor Vargellas Vinha Velha is a more introverted Taylor’s Vintage, an earthy bouquet with touches of orange essence developing in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, good backbone, quite reserved and composed at the moment. This is not a flamboyant Vinha Velha, but there is a very attractive, slightly biscuity quality towards the finish. Superb. The Vinha Vehla are five plots located in the heart of Quinta de Vargellas. The vines being between 80 and 120 years of age. Strict selection has led to a wine of stunning complexity, power and richness. This is one that will be at its peak 50 years hence. …
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Price: $286.76 USD
Stock: 15 in Stock
Warre's Vintage Port, 2007
Vintage Port, Douro
93 Points - Wine Advocate.
"The 2007 Warre Vintage Port is one of the stars of the vintage. A glass-coating opaque purple color, it displays an expressive bouquet of Asian spices, incense, lavender, blackberry, and fruitcake. Plush on the palate with outstanding volume, it exhibits a sense of elegance as well as power. Savory flavors, plenty of structure for the long haul, and a lengthy, fruit-filled finish suggests two decades of cellaring are in order. This superb effort should still be drinking well in 2050." Pierre Rovani Wine Advocate.
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Price: $101.90 USD
Stock: 3 in Stock
Chateauneuf du Pape, 2007
Domaine Font de Michelle, Cuvee Etienne Gonnet, Rhone
The 2007 Chataeuneuf du Pape wine from Etienne Gonnet is a profound, smokey, leathery nose with an intriguing aromatic note like sandalwood. Beautiful palate with a gorgeous, silky texture, and a very sweet impression. Intense, wonderfully scented Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
Producer Guilllaume Gonnet produces this Châteauneuf-du-Pape from equal quantities of Grenache and Syrah, the vines farmed biodynamically and on average, between 50 and 90 years old. That age of vine leads to an especially intense, pure Châteauneuf-du-Pape, with tonnes of dark fruit aroma, touches of mixed herbs and liquorice. …
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Price: $89.15 USD
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Dow's, 2007
Vintage Port, Douro
100 Points - Wine Spectator
The 2007 Vintage Port Wine from Dow's has received ***100 Points*** from Wine Spectator
This has a superb nose of rich, ripe berry fruit with the typical slightly austere and firm reserve of Dow. Analytically drier than usual, it is still blessed with dense fruit on the palate, a magnificent structure, weight and impressively long finish. On this showing, Dow is a strong candidate for wine of the vintage.
Wine Spectator Awards Perfect Score to World-Renowned Port Producer Dow's 2007 Vintage Port, from the Oporto, Portugal based producer, has been awarded a perfect 100-point score from Wine Spectator magazine in the May 31 issue. …
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Price: $177.15 USD
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Dow's, 2007
Vintage Port, Douro
Half Bottle
100 Points - Wine Spectator
The 2007 Vintage Port Wine from Dow's has received ***100 Points*** from Wine Spectator
This has a superb nose of rich, ripe berry fruit with the typical slightly austere and firm reserve of Dow. Analytically drier than usual, it is still blessed with dense fruit on the palate, a magnificent structure, weight and impressively long finish. On this showing, Dow is a strong candidate for wine of the vintage.
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Price: $87.94 USD
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Graham's Port, 2007
Vintage Port, Douro Half Bottle ***97 Points Wine Advocate***
***97 Points Wine Advocate***
Reviews: "A candidate for wine of the vintage, the 2007 Graham’s Vintage Port is complete in every way. Opaque purple-colored, it offers up an ethereal perfume of smoke, mineral, Asian spices, incense, an amalgam of ripe black fruits, and a hint of chocolate in the background. This leads to a dense, super-rich, plush, opulent wine that hides its structure under all the fruit. Vibrant, impeccably balanced, and exceptionally lengthy, it will easily age for another 25-30 years in the cellar and drink well through 2050, probably longer. It is a tour de force." Jay Miller, Wine Advocate 2010. …
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Price: $61.18 USD
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Smith Woodhouse Vintage Port, 2007
Vintage Port, Douro
Half Bottle
With a massive hedgerow nose and great balance with lovely aromatics and fine tannins the 2007 Smith Woodhouse boxes well above its weight.
Although considered a 'lighter' member of the great Port houses, Smith Woodhouse excels in great years such as 2007 where it delivers not only value for money but a vintage Port that will repay a couple of decades or more in the cellar.
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Price: $43.33 USD
Stock: Out of Stock
Warre's Vintage Port, 2007
Vintage Port, Douro
Half Bottle
93 Points - Wine Advocate.
"The 2007 Warre Vintage Port is one of the stars of the vintage. A glass-coating opaque purple color, it displays an expressive bouquet of Asian spices, incense, lavender, blackberry, and fruitcake. Plush on the palate with outstanding volume, it exhibits a sense of elegance as well as power. Savory flavors, plenty of structure for the long haul, and a lengthy, fruit-filled finish suggests two decades of cellaring are in order. This superb effort should still be drinking well in 2050." Pierre Rovani Wine Advocate.
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Price: $48.43 USD
Stock: Out of Stock