Dow's Late Bottled Vintage Port 2009

This is a quite fine, fruit driven, plummy, licorice and vanilla scented port. Not a lot of complexity, but there is generous fruit. Elegance and smoothness reign, with a chalky dusty finish. Very good length with a touch of flinty minerality. Needs some age to buff the corners. Best 2017 to well into the next decade. Score - 90. (David Lawrason, winealign.com, Oct. 30, 2014)