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IronGate Fine Wine Auction

Tue, Mar 18, 2025 10:00AM EDT - Tue, Mar 25, 2025 08:00PM EDT
  • 2017
  • 6000ml
  • Portugal
  • Port
  • Port
  • Port Blend Red
  • Red Fortified
  • OWC
Lot 875

2017 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port - 1 bottle(s)-6000ml

Estimate: CAD$1,400 - CAD$2,000

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CAD$100,000 CAD$10,000
This lot is comprised of 1 bottle(s) of 2017 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port - 6000ml. Estimate for this lot is between $1400 - $2000 with a reserve of $1000. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11365.

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In 1997 this collector was backpacking through Europe and shared a bottle of 1986 Ramonet Montrachet with a friend and his love of wine began. He started collecting and cellaring wine seriously around the year 2000 and currently has 700+ bottles, mainly old world. He gravitates to the classics of France, Italy and Germany as well as Port. All of the wine was purchased upon release from the LCBO and Ontario wine agents and stored in temperature-controlled wine cabinets. He is selling some of his standard format bottles to make room for recently purchased magnums.
The rating for 2017 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port is 99 points from Robert Parker and the tasting note - The 2017 Vintage Port is a field blend aged for approximately 20 months in wood. It comes in with 100 grams of residual sugar. Rich, concentrated and often sensational, this is well structured, even better in its fruit profile. While the fruit is terrific, it is also wonderfully fresh. This is arguably a great Taylor's, but it still needs to prove its final case in the cellar. I don't think that will be a problem. As I said when I first saw it, it effortlessly combines brilliant fruit and structure. It does everything right, and it is a formidable competitor to its Vinha Velha sibling in this report. And at half the price.