Taylor's Late Bottled Vintage 2001

Color: Deep dark red with dark brown.

Nose: Dark caramel, chocolate, spices, peppery, black ripe plum, prunes, some flowers, some vanilla, marsipan and cherry. After decanting for a while it shows some orange marmelade and maybe dried apricot.

Palate: Full bodied, same aromas as above, good concentration, very good balanced structure in the wine, very long rich and fresh finish, firm in the end. Sweet but not to sweet.

Foodmatch: Game, rich mature cheese, chocolate desserts.

Cellaring: 0-10 years. It is ready to drink and it is a filltered wine, but I think it will develope nice in the bottle. Some will say that filtered LBV does not develope in the bottle, I am not sure about that.

Very good wine. I was positively surprised because I have had my chear of Taylors that have been to sweet and plump, lacking acidity. BTW I have not tasted a lot of taylors, so maybe I have been unlucky. This LBV is very good quality.