99 points Wine Enthusiast: "This wine’s dark garnet color with minimal bricking suggests a relatively youthful wine and this certainly could age longer, although it’s also delicious now. Wonderfully complex floral and herbal scents easily move into deep, rich flavors of chocolate and cherries, sprinkled with a healthy dose of Douro minerality and spice. Drink or hold. (Feb 2007)"
98 points Wine Spectator: "Clearly lives up to Taylor's superb reputation. Deep ruby, with intense violet and chocolate aromas, full-bodied, with gorgeous fruit flavors, full but well-integrated tannins and an extremely long finish. Amazing balance and finesse. (1989)"
98 points Neal Martin (Vinous): "The 1970 Taylor's Vintage Port has a tight nose, youthful with notes of liquorice, raisin, boot-polish and lemongrass. It is well defined and displays a little more intensity than the 1963. The palate is full-bodied with firm tannins, very cohesive with superb ripeness: wild strawberry, lemongrass, smoke and dates with an incredibly persistent finish. There is an effortlessness to this Port. It has such weight on the finish that it will cruise past another two decades in bottle. Drink: 2018-2030. (Jun 2018)"
96 points Robert Parker: "This house must certainly be the Latour of Portugal. Their ports are remarkably backward yet still impressive when young. Of all the vintage ports, those of Taylor need the longest time to mature and even when fully mature seem to have an inner strength and firmness that keep them going for decades. Their tawnys are also among the very best, though somewhat expensive. The 1970 fabulous, a broodingly dense-colored, backward port that has all the signs of future greatness... (Jan 1989)"
18/20 points Richard Mayson (The World of Fine Wine): "Mid-deep brick red in color, with a thin browning rim; fragrant, slightly toasted, floral character, open if not all that expressive for a wine of this age; firm, rich, classic bittersweet character; firm, dry but an explosive, tannic finish; long and linear. A huge declaration: 31,400 cases. (Issue #33; 2011)"
98 points Wine Spectator: "Clearly lives up to Taylor's superb reputation. Deep ruby, with intense violet and chocolate aromas, full-bodied, with gorgeous fruit flavors, full but well-integrated tannins and an extremely long finish. Amazing balance and finesse. (1989)"
98 points Neal Martin (Vinous): "The 1970 Taylor's Vintage Port has a tight nose, youthful with notes of liquorice, raisin, boot-polish and lemongrass. It is well defined and displays a little more intensity than the 1963. The palate is full-bodied with firm tannins, very cohesive with superb ripeness: wild strawberry, lemongrass, smoke and dates with an incredibly persistent finish. There is an effortlessness to this Port. It has such weight on the finish that it will cruise past another two decades in bottle. Drink: 2018-2030. (Jun 2018)"
96 points Robert Parker: "This house must certainly be the Latour of Portugal. Their ports are remarkably backward yet still impressive when young. Of all the vintage ports, those of Taylor need the longest time to mature and even when fully mature seem to have an inner strength and firmness that keep them going for decades. Their tawnys are also among the very best, though somewhat expensive. The 1970 fabulous, a broodingly dense-colored, backward port that has all the signs of future greatness... (Jan 1989)"
18/20 points Richard Mayson (The World of Fine Wine): "Mid-deep brick red in color, with a thin browning rim; fragrant, slightly toasted, floral character, open if not all that expressive for a wine of this age; firm, rich, classic bittersweet character; firm, dry but an explosive, tannic finish; long and linear. A huge declaration: 31,400 cases. (Issue #33; 2011)"
| Product SKU | 302349 |
| Producer | Taylor Fladgate |
| Country | Portugal |
| Region | Porto DOC |
| Varietal | Other Red Blends |
| Vintage | 1970 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Color | Red |
| ABV | 20.0% |
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