2005 Kopke Porto Colheita

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  3/20/2022 - Zweder wrote: 92 Points

  Beautiful and complex wine with raisins, figs and dates as well as some coffee candy impressions. Beautiful sweetness and pleasant acidity. Beautiful tawny style Port wine.

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  9/8/2021 - tob100 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  No decanting
  Tasted over 7 days
  No sediment in wine.
  
  The nose:
  Nutty feeling, figs, brown sugar, syrup, prune, vanilla and alcohol.
  
  The palate:
  Syrup/Honey, brown sugar, chocolate, vanilla, coffee, figs, prune, plum, blueberry. You can really sence that the wine has been stored in wood barrels. There is a spicy feeling at the end, quit nice and not overwhelming.
  
  I recently tasted Taylors vintage 07', which was more complex and less sweet. I do prefer this Kopke wine. It's just as complex and with sweeter notes than Taylors. I'm a big Sauternes lover, so i'm used to the sweet wines. And if I should compare the Kopke and Sauternes, I would say that Sauternes wines is the sweetest. But you could look at it like this:
  
  Sauternes = sweet and bright, tropic fruits, feeling of summer, ocean and palm trees.
  Port wine = sweet and dark, dark fruits, feeling of winter and snowy/windy days.
  
  Normally I drink Sauternes at summer time (my birthday) and at Christmas time. I think i'm going to reschedule that, so port wine is set on the table at winter times and Sauternes in the summer time.
  
  But for this Kopke Colheita 2005 vintage, I would say that you might have to decant it 2-4 hours, just to kick down the alcohol. But other then that.
  96P

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  2/16/2019 - martijnkriens wrote: 91 Points

  Fresh and nutty. Bought 6 so I am curious how this will develop the next 15 years

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  5/30/2017 - cofidis2 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Plenty of honeysuckle, peach, dried flowers, and enough acidity to keep it from being cloying. Moderately complex this white Colheita has just enough complexity to keep me coming back for more than a couple glasses. Drinks well right now and should hold for the next year or two for best results. But the freshness of this now is what helps make this. In other words, don't try to age this for a decade or two. Enjoy it now as it's quite tasty.
  
  90 Points

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  2/17/2016 - cofidis2 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Bottled in 2015.
  This is their White Colheita. A very pale golden color. Plenty of up front honey and a liquid soap nose. A well balanced palate that isn't too thick or thin in body for the light and delicate honeysuckle, and a dried flower who's name I can't recall at the moment, and white cracked pepper. The latter of which doesn't show up till the back end. I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of overt spirit for such a young White Port. At this point it doesn't show a lot of complexity, especially on the finish. Since this category of white Cohleita's is relatively new for releases so young I'm not sure how this will age with more time in barrel. But I look forward to hopefully trying this again some years down the road if Kopke retained some for future releases.
  88 Points

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