This had a very turbid reddish amber appearance with a fairly rich nutty nose. The flavour was full bodied and sweet combining plummy fruit, dried fruit, and orange peel with underlaying oaky notes.
This was bought after tasting the same year but bottled in 2014 as it was packaged with two badged glasses. It wasn't possible to see the year of bottling on the back of the bottle until after it was unpacked. It was disappointing in the least to discover that this was old stock. The taste wasn't anything like as complex as the 2014 bottling. I guess this was a salutory lesson as well as an interesting investigation into the bottle aging of a colheita. Presumable the turbidity and significant deposits were caused by precipitation while the product stood on the shelf.
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indeed, since filtered tawny/colheita isn't expected to develop further, fresher bottlings are usually better.
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