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Tasted March 2007: All these ports were tasted at ProWein, and I only made short notes. The quality of the 2005 ports was impressive. It looks like it will be at least a partly declared vintage, and I know I will be looking out for them. Niepoort 2005 VP (Cask Sample) Very good, jummy flavours and a...

Tasted March 2007: All these ports were tasted at ProWein, and I only made short notes. The quality of the 2005 ports was impressive. It looks like it will be at least a partly declared vintage, and I know I will be looking out for them. Niepoort 2005 VP (Cask Sample) Very good, jummy flavours and a...

Tasted March 2007: All these ports were tasted at ProWein, and I only made short notes. The quality of the 2005 ports was impressive. It looks like it will be at least a partly declared vintage, and I know I will be looking out for them. Niepoort 2005 VP (Cask Sample) Very good, jummy flavours and a...

Tasted March 2007: All these ports were tasted at ProWein, and I only made short notes. The quality of the 2005 ports was impressive. It looks like it will be at least a partly declared vintage, and I know I will be looking out for them. Niepoort 2005 VP (Cask Sample) Very good, jummy flavours and a...

Tasted March 2007: All these ports were tasted at ProWein, and I only made short notes. The quality of the 2005 ports was impressive. It looks like it will be at least a partly declared vintage, and I know I will be looking out for them. Niepoort 2005 VP (Cask Sample) Very good, jummy flavours and a...

Tasted March 2007: These ports were tasted at ProWein and I only made short notes. Warre's 2003 VP Very nice elegant style, but no lightweight for sure. I liked this a lot, and would give it maybe two or three points more than the 89WS rating. Dow's 2003 VP Notably sweeter than other Dow's VP's, but...

Tasted March 2007: These ports were tasted at ProWein and I only made short notes. Warre's 2003 VP Very nice elegant style, but no lightweight for sure. I liked this a lot, and would give it maybe two or three points more than the 89WS rating. Dow's 2003 VP Notably sweeter than other Dow's VP's, but...

Tasted March 2007: These ports were tasted at ProWein and I only made short notes. Warre's 2003 VP Very nice elegant style, but no lightweight for sure. I liked this a lot, and would give it maybe two or three points more than the 89WS rating. Dow's 2003 VP Notably sweeter than other Dow's VP's, but...

Tasted March 2007: These ports were tasted at ProWein and I only made short notes. Warre's 2003 VP Very nice elegant style, but no lightweight for sure. I liked this a lot, and would give it maybe two or three points more than the 89WS rating. Dow's 2003 VP Notably sweeter than other Dow's VP's, but...

Tasted March 2007: All these ports were tasted at ProWein, and I only made short notes. Quinta de Vale Meao 2001 VP Very dark, full and complex. A great port with a stunning effort for the vintage. My favourite of the bunch. Quinta de Vale Meao 2003 VP Very jammy, almost overripe fruit. Good for sur...

Tasted March 2007: All these ports were tasted at ProWein, and I only made short notes. Quinta de Vale Meao 2001 VP Very dark, full and complex. A great port with a stunning effort for the vintage. My favourite of the bunch. Quinta de Vale Meao 2003 VP Very jammy, almost overripe fruit. Good for sur...

Tasted March 2007: All these ports were tasted at ProWein, and I only made short notes. Quinta de Vale Meao 2001 VP Very dark, full and complex. A great port with a stunning effort for the vintage. My favourite of the bunch. Quinta de Vale Meao 2003 VP Very jammy, almost overripe fruit. Good for sur...

Tasted March 2007: All these ports were tasted at ProWein, and I only made short notes. Quinta de Vale Meao 2001 VP Very dark, full and complex. A great port with a stunning effort for the vintage. My favourite of the bunch. Quinta de Vale Meao 2003 VP Very jammy, almost overripe fruit. Good for sur...

Tasted March 2007: These ports were tasted at ProWein, I only made short notes. Quinta de Roriz 2004 VP Nice contrentration and mineral freshness. Dark flavours woth liquorice / bay leaf. Very good. Quinta de Roriz 2003 VP Sweeter than 2004, more round flavours, almost jammy, and also hotter. I slig...

Tasted March 2007: These ports were tasted at ProWein, I only made short notes. Quinta de Roriz 2004 VP Nice contrentration and mineral freshness. Dark flavours woth liquorice / bay leaf. Very good. Quinta de Roriz 2003 VP Sweeter than 2004, more round flavours, almost jammy, and also hotter. I slig...

Tasted March 2007: These ports were tasted at ProWein, I only made short notes. Quinta de Roriz 2004 VP Nice contrentration and mineral freshness. Dark flavours woth liquorice / bay leaf. Very good. Quinta de Roriz 2003 VP Sweeter than 2004, more round flavours, almost jammy, and also hotter. I slig...

Tasted March 2007: These ports were tasted at ProWein, I only made short notes. Quinta de Roriz 2004 VP Nice contrentration and mineral freshness. Dark flavours woth liquorice / bay leaf. Very good. Quinta de Roriz 2003 VP Sweeter than 2004, more round flavours, almost jammy, and also hotter. I slig...

Tasted January 2005, TN by LadyR: Deep ruby red, showing a brown hue. A bit cloudy (our cat was rubbing against the bottle while I decanted it) The nose is a bit alcoholic, but besides that it contains nice tones of ripe cherries, cooked vegetables, bayleaves, cacao, a bit of dried fruit, leather an...

Tasted January 2005, TN by LadyR: [quote]With our crappy light, there was not much difference in colour between the two. Less intense nose, but in same style, lots of cooked vegetables. The nose shows older than the Panascal. The taste is a complete different story: thick bodied but fresh in appeara...

This note is from December 2006 -------------------- Every year we have a port tasting with a group of friends. Everyone buys a bottle. This year the theme was tawnies. StevieCage didn't quite understand the theme and brought a VP. I didn't mind... I didn't make any TN, so only short impressions. Kr...

Tasted December 2006: More concentrated, reddish colour than the Cruzeiro. Very fresh on the nose, with dark cherries, dark chocolate, and meaty aromas. Very full. Firm tasting, well bodied, dark and spicy. Again dark cherries and chocolate. Good freshness and good grip. Medium sweet. A smack-in-you...

Tasted December 2006: Fonseca hardly ever releases port from this quinta as a single quinta VP. The colour is rather pale, brownish red, clearly aged. Light fruit on the nose, caramel and raisins. Nose is somewhat alcoholic. Light bodied on the palate with sweet strawberries and other light red frui...

And another note, from October 2006, when we drank it together with tyee: We tried a second bottle from the same lot. This bottle was the one with the worst fill level (low shoulder). As LadyR mentioned in her original post, we received a bottle of Fonseca 85 extra, because of the state of the bottl...

A note from 2004, written up by LadyR: A month ago we bought 7 bottles of this near perfect vintage port for only 50 euro's a bottle. Since two are slightly leaking, we decided to open one of those to see if it is infected. (Actually, we got 2 Fonseca '85 for free extra because two Taylor's bottles ...

tasted June 2006: Tasted this port again tonight, and it's still every bit as beautiful as it was two years ago. It hasn't changed much, which is probably a good sign. Perhaps a bit darker than it was (more bay leaf licorice than herb), but otherwise still as open and outspoken as it was just after ...