20 year old Tawny Port

This layered, complex, rich and detailed Port is delicious, vibrant and sweet, packed with hazelnut, honey, maple, caramel and dried apricot flavors that linger for minutes on the finish. Blended from a core of 20-year-old casks with older and younger ones to express the sophisticated house style. Drink or hold.

- Jim Gordon (06/2024)

Certainly not at the same level as the 50-year Tawny, the NV Twenty Year Old Tawny Port is nevertheless brilliant and has a gorgeous perfume of toffee, candied olives, sweet orange zest, cigar, and smoky, spicy nuances. This carries to a medium to full-bodied, incredibly pure, clean, elegant, flawlessly balanced beauty that has integrated acidity, terrific mid-palate depth, and a huge finish. (03/2025)

This is a shade or two darker and richer than its peers, with warm toffee, hazelnut cream, roasted vanilla, cinnamon and walnut husk notes leading the way, backed by halva, pistachio oil and dried fig details. Lush through the finish, with the walnut hint lingering long enough for all the elements to fall in line. An exotic tawny. Drink now. 140 cases imported.

- J.M.

The NV 20 Year Old Tawny Port was bottled in 2016 with a bar-top cork and 132 grams per liter of residual sugar. Gloriously fresh and completely alive, this adds an extra layer of depth and concentration of flavor to the 10 Year Old, of course, but that's not the main attraction here. This has all of Noval's typical grace and elegance while the complexity level is nicely above average. Then, its bright demeanor makes its fruit lifted and drives the medley of flavors home. It persists nicely, becoming something to contemplate as well as enjoy. This is a bit on the pricey side for a 20, at least judging from the list price, but it was also one of my favorites here. I don't want to be a broken record, but remember that aged tawnies should be drunk a bit cool. This was brilliant around 58-60 degrees Fahrenheit, boring around 72.

- Mark Squires (12/2016)