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Pale colour with little pigment remaining. Charcoal and tobacco on the nose. Light fruit, gentle acidic structure; mature and balanced. Soft aftertaste, full of igs and dates and with plenty of volume. Others commented that the finish was of oranges and cointreau. A light-bodied and very elegant por...

Pale red colour, looking slightly tired. Some coffee beans on the nose. Sweet in the tongue, little fruit and an awkward structure, lacking balance. Slightly hollow on the aftertaste and finish, not much other than redcurrant jelly and lots of sweetness. 81/100. I have had this once before, with muc...

VA showing on the nose, spoiling the bouquet. Some VA flavours on the palate, but not dominating and adding some complexity to a full bodied flavour. Lots of fruit in the mix and some soft tannins. Lovely aftertaste and finish, long and fully flavoured. Has the soft tannins to last another 5-10 year...

Mid-red colour, showing little on the nose. Sweet, medium-bodied entry; acidity is rather harsh and dominates the palate - takes a long time to recede to reveal sour damson fruit. Sweet and figgy aftertaste and a finish of good length. 84/100. Not as good as the bottle we bought from The Crusting Pi...

Voting for Wine of the Night was: Churchill - no votes Croft - second place x 2, third place x 1 = 5 points Delaforce - first place x 1, third place x 2 = 5 points Eira Velha - first place x 3, third place x 1 = 10 points Royal Oporto - no votes Niepoort - first place x 1, second place x 4, third pl...

AHB very kindly sent me 5 samples (numbered 1 to 5 with no clue as to which is which) from this tasting and asked me not to read this thread or the TN threads until I posted my thoghts on the samples. Apart from my very early (pre-instruction) posts above I have complied with AHB's instructions. He...

I do recall that Caroline had a particular fondness for the Delaforce. She and I seemed to be passing that bottle between us quite often.

oscar quevedo wrote:Bad news. We couldn't bring the prize to the Douro... The winner is http://www.beendoonsolong.com/. I'm sure that if Alex had voted, we were now celebrating..

If I buy some more bottles of 2007 port from you, can I stop feeling so guilty?

Welcome Helen!

Does this mean that Simon will be doing baby-sitting duty soon and we will see you at an offline in the near future?

Not sure if anyone started a "wishlist" thread before? With the entire community on :tpf: I am pretty sure that individuals might have a bottle that to them does not seem special yet it might be for others. In my example, I've been looking a while for a vintage from 1981 since this is my ...

I was a little nervous at the suggested theme before the event, having drunk very little from this vintage and having a preconception that the vintage is on a par with 1975. However, having tasted the 8 or so wines we had available, I am really pleased that Wolfgang suggested the theme and that he a...

He's due in Seattle next, and then he'll be off to LA. I'm probably crazy, but I'm actually going to drive down to LA. (That's 19 hours at 62 mph for you Euros, or slightly farther than driving from London to Naples, Italy.) Presumably that's the average worked out from 8 hours at 145mph to travel ...

We have a quorum. The venue is The Crusting Pipe (I'll make a booking at some point) on Thursday 15 July at 6:30pm. Since it is a Thursday, we will probably not be able to eat off the Sun-Wed special price menu but will end up paying an extra £10 or so per person for the full price menu, so allow £5...

A new thread, smartly added by JDAW while I was posting my first impression of the Niepoort. Thank you. D+25 minutes. A light red colour, deeper than the Df but not as deep as the Ni. Unpleasant bottle stink on the nose, very elastic band. Lovely texture, very smooth but also quite acidic on the ton...

D+30 minutes. A nice red core, with the depth and tone that would be expected from a mature vintage port. Lovely nose, full of sweet cranberry and redcurrant and a hint of dustiness. Very sweet entry, full of ripe red fruit and the surprise of the package—the soft tannins that make an appearance. Lo...

D +30 minutes: a very pale pink; nosing of not much, perhaps a bit of Turkish Delight and charcoal. Very sweet in the mouth with some pleasant, figgy fruit. A surprising amount of tobacco spiciness and complexity on the palate of this port and with a good balance of structural acidity. Very floral a...

Looking at the Df, Ni and RO the Df is a pale burgundy colour, the Ni is a very promising deep mahogany and the RO is a surprising mature red - the sort of colour I would expect a mature port to be.

As I sit here admiring this beautiful array of fine vintage ports in front of me (RO, Df, Ni) I do find myself wondering whether Cruz released a vintage in 1982.

Niepoort and Delaforce now decanted. There is also a stray bottle of Royal Oporto 1982 at TCP, but unless told otherwise I will assume that this is NOT to be decanted but is instead to be given to Derek when we next see him. Mystery solved. The box in which the RO was delivered was not given to me,...

Should I be buying a bottle of Sandeman?

Niepoort and Delaforce now decanted. There is also a stray bottle of Royal Oporto 1982 at TCP, but unless told otherwise I will assume that this is NOT to be decanted but is instead to be given to Derek when we next see him.

Roy has given me his dates for his visit to the UK in early October and I will start to organise the 55@55 tasting just as soon as I have finished working out how my cellar will change over the next 25 years as I drnk from it and the wines I don't drink mature another year - damn you Uncle Tom, you ...

This is a subject which is quite close to my heart and one which - if I had the time, which I don't at the moment - I would actively collect data. As it is, I have been recording bottles which I open which were bottled in the UK and have been noting which wines have been bottled by which UK merchant...

I don't have many F70 bottles at home, but from what I remember, I have seen real mixture of glass for the bottlings ranging from black glass through to very pale green. Many of these are probably UK bottled as they did not carry sellos but there was no indication of this on the label. Perhaps this ...

Tuesdays and Thursdays in July which have not already been excluded are: Tu 6 July - good for AHB Tu 13 July - good for AHB Th 15 July - AHB already in London that day Tu 20 July - good for AHB Tu 27 July - good for AHB My preference would be to go for the 15th since I already have to be in London f...