Grahams 1972 Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port

Grahams 1972 Colheita Single Harvest Tawny Port

Grapes: Traditional Douro varieties Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz and Tinta Amarela sourced from the Quinta dos Malvedos in the Cima Corgo sub-region and Quinta das Lages in the Rio Torto area.

Producer Tasting Note:

A beautiful golden colour, with an intense ripe aroma of dried fruits and orange peel combined with cherry fruit and toasted aromas from more than 40 years of wood ageing, create tremendous complexity in this many layered wine. The flavour fills the whole palate with huge volume and power developing into an exceptionally long, fresh and honey-sweet finish.

Critics' Tasting Notes:

"Darker than the 1982. Really round, rich and massive. Super-charger. This is a power house! Kerpow! Maybe one of the best 1972s made anywhere in the wine world. Very difficult to spit this, it’s so clean and fresh."

19/20 points, Jancis Robinson, JancisRobinson.com, December 2018

"Amber color. Lots of dried fruit, ripe citrus and fruit peel, some tobacco and toasted aroma. Very good in the mouth, complex, sweet but retaining freshness. A very well designed great Colheita, where elegance and freshness prevail over power and sweetness."

18.5/20 points, Revista de Vinhos (Portugal), October 2015

"This is a bright and rich Port with caramel and dried-fruit aromas and flavors. Full-bodied, sweet and so balanced. Light tannins. So fresh and vivid. Lovely Port with intensity and great length. Drink now."

97/100 points, James Suckling, November 2017

The 1972 Single Harvest Tawny Port is made from the very finest wines from the Graham’s vineyards, and is the result of the unique terroir of the Douro Valley and subsequent maturation in Vila Nova de Gaia, that has distinguished Graham’s for almost two centuries. When the Symington family acquired Graham’s in 1970, the then head of wine making, Peter Symington selected the first single harvest to be aged in old wooden casks.

Accompanying the maturation of the 1972 Single Harvest Port throughout his career, he passed it on to his son when he retired in 2009. Charles Symington, current head winemaker, tasted each of the casks handed down to him by his father and selected nine for bottling. Each containing 712 bottles, this individually numbered limited release of 1972 Port is testament to the knowledge and experience passed down from father to son.