Morris Old Premium Tawny Port April 04

A new wine from this well respected fortified producer that I was looking forward to trying. According to the literature, the grape varieties are mainly Shiraz and Grenache and there is some 40-50 year old material in the wine.

If I had tried this wine blind, I would have thought the bouquet was more like a liqueur Muscat or Tokay than a Tawny Port because of its rancio characters, tealeaves and plum pudding aroma. On the palate, the wine is rich, silky, smooth, and coats the mouth with luscious Christmas pudding, burnt honey, tealeaves, and citrus flavours that are not at all cloying, indeed the wine finishes very clean. Ample in weight, which means it is a lighter style Tawny, and whilst you could not fail to enjoy it, the complexity ok but not great but it does have reasonable persistence.

Rated as Excellent with *** for value at $42 for a 500ml bottle.