The opaque purple-colored 1999 Portsorts offers up scents of blackberry liqueur, licorice, and camphor. Dense, full-bodied, and unctuously-textured, with a floral component that emerges as the wine sits in the glass. Beautifully integrated alcohol and a seamless personality suggest this down-under port look-alike will drink well young, yet evolve for 20 years.It is interesting to note how much lighter and more developed aromatically the 1999 Yarra Yering offerings are than the 1998s. One has to admire this winery's purity of expression, and terroirists will use meaningless words such as "transparency" to describe these wines. Terroir or not, they merit considerable interest.Importer: Rob McDonald, Old Bridge Cellars, Napa, CA; tel. (707) 258-9552