Violets, roses, spices, and candied dark fruits emanate from the glass of the murky black/purple colored 2003 Graham Vintage Port.  Bold, full-bodied, and expansive, the Graham benefited the most from extensive contact with air of all the 2003s tasted for this report. This opulently jammy wine assaults the palate with powerful yet soft layers of oily, candied red fruits as well as notes of tar and hints of mocha. A highly concentrated effort, it is creamy textured, suave, and reveals an admirably long finish filled with additional layers of dark fruits intermingled with spices. - PR

With its core of wines from Quinta dos Malvedos, this great dense Port shows a perfumed eucalyptus aroma and a memorable violet and spice flavor. The spirit, beautifully integrated, gives the wine its weight and structure. Drink the wine now. - Roger Voss

A muscular, strapping Port, laden with warmed black currant reduction and black cherry pâte de fruit notes that meld steadily with a range of melted licorice snap, fruitcake and ganache flavors. Fleshy and grippy through the finish, with excellent energy. Tempting now, but wait on this one. - JM

An expansive chord of mineral and black fruit flavor, this vintage of Graham's is all-enveloping in its sheer power. The tannins and the fruit strike a balance with dense, floral, purple-black flavors over crushed stone. That schisty grip of the tannin ends up feeling supple and curvaceous, defining the boundaries of the fruit rather than restricting it. The best vintage of Graham's in recent memory.