Have been trying this wine over the last few weeks and has been holding very nicely. The tannin has faded some with air exposure with fruit holding nicely on your tongue for a very solid finish. Has a little heat but nothing overpowering. Plenty of life ahead.

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Plenty of life ahead.

i hope so

I think this indeed has plenty of potential. For my taste, it is just too hot to enjoy at this stage; for my taste Taylor needs at least 15 years to really integrate. Thank for the update nonetheless, Red Vino!

Stevie,

I was just curious to see where this was as I bought a ton when a local store blew it out for $20 less 20% case discount.

Another 5 years might be right. Didn't you try some 87 not to long ago. How was it?

Nice price, Red Vino!

The last time I tasted the '87, it was corked , but in previous tastings it was very enjoyable - and still very, very young.

At $16 per bottle I would have bought more than one case. Then left it hidden away where I couldn't find it.

Bought all they had - my problem its sitting on top of my 94s

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Wow nice price - saw it for $100/750ml in my area this week! The 1997 Taylor VP was cheaper than that at the same store too!

$100 for the '95?!

Yeah, I know....the 2003 VP was $84, the 1997 VP magnum was $140...makes no sense, but it's Massachusetts. On the upside they had a 2001 Louis Latour Corton Charlemagne for $49.

We can't all live in the Netherlands where the canals run free with port on the Queen's Birthday, or that maybe is just the tax exemption!

tuarita99,

i agree, we can not all live in holland .....

but we have to pay 60$/kilo for life lobster


btw.
i have bin in maine,
in 1998 in fall spend one month treveling/hikikg
baxter sp, arcadia np, boston, and so on.

tsunami,

Your lobster cost sounds as grim as my port!

This summer in Maine - 11$/kilo live lobster right off the boats near Acadia National Park (Stonington, Maine)
The 49$ for the Louis Latour Corton Charlemagne = 60$.

Like having a lobster in Switzerland with a free bottle of Corton Charlemagne!

If you Europeans come to town at the right time of year, you can have freshly caught lobster, and maple syrup just hours out of the tree, for next to nothing.

You bring the port.....