Awesome after dinner with some Stilton, grapes, and crackers. — 9 years ago
Excelent quality/price. — 10 years ago
Very nice full bodied — 9 years ago
Light Portuguese wine bright and fruity — 10 years ago
Spicy I love it — 10 years ago
Very shy and closed when I tasted it. Feel like I didn't get a proper feel for the wine. — 9 years ago
Lush - $22. — 9 years ago
Drinking lovely! This producer holds back their wines until they feel ready to release, this 1980 is a current release! Still showing fruit, leather and "crispness" as the Portuguese would say. — 10 years ago
Eldon Sproule
This is quite a complex wine. Give it some time to breathe and it will reward you for that. Doesn't need any more time to age, if anything drink it soon. I didn't have another to compare it to, but it may be just past it's prime. Primary flavours: Tobacco, stewed plum, dried sour cherry. Secondaries: leather, smoke, white pepper, vanilla. Tertiaries: green capsicum, spearmint. Full body, long finish, very intense, very complex, many levels of expression.
The short answer - buy it and drink it — 8 years ago