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- 10:21 Sat 22 Sep 2012
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 1997 Niepoort
- Replies: 65
- Views: 15036
Re: 1997 Niepoort
So now I have to ask, what's the deal with the leaking corks 6x closed case comes in and 2 of the bottles are leaking terribly. Sorry if this comes across as being blunt, but: why did you buy these? You can't say you haven't been warned! In numerous threads both here and on FTLOP there has been men...
- 11:16 Tue 22 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1970 Royal Oporto Carvalhas
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4713
Re: 1970 Royal Oporto Carvalhas
Possibly even lighter in colour than the regular Royal Oporto. Dusty nose with very little else. Perhaps a hint of strawberries if you really want to smell it. Very dilute on the palate, some tea leaves, glycerol and generally quite hot. Definitely worse than the Royal Oporto. Not liked at all, and ...
- 11:11 Tue 22 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1970 Royal Oporto
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3735
Re: 1970 Royal Oporto
Tawny colour, very alcoholic nose, quite unappetising. To taste very spirity, with incredibly artificial sweets, otherwise completely turned to tawny. Short finish. One to pass upon if you come across it and to drink up fast if you have it.
- 11:08 Tue 22 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1970 Offley
- Replies: 3
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Re: 1970 Offley Boa Vista
Another port that's best summarised by the word "light". Light pink / orange colour, and light on the nose, which does show some lovely rose aromas. Light fruit on the palate, strawberry and raspberry. Some leather and tobacco. Slightly simple, but the flavours and aromas are all very attr...
- 11:05 Tue 22 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1970 Cockburn
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3711
Re: 1970 Cockburn
Light is the keyword here. Light coloured, light on the nose (other than showing harsh spirit) and light flavours on the palate. Although we agreed that the bottle was slightly off, I did quite enjoy the flavours: some strawberry, milk chocolate, raisin and almond. Not bad at all, but certainly up t...
- 11:02 Tue 22 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1970 Warre
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3738
Re: 1970 Warre
Quite light in colour, with still a nice lively core. Slightly dusty on the nose, quite light, not giving much initially. Rather complex and lovely on the palate, with good structure. Some attractive light fruit (strawberries, figs) with some orange peel, nutty flavours and a long finish. I thought ...
- 08:57 Tue 22 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1970 Taylor
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3178
Re: 1970 Taylor
I wasn't half as enthusiastic as AHB on this one. I found it too pale in colour, with a tawny-ish nose. Almonds and hazelnuts on the palate, with raisins and dried fruit. Perhaps still hints of what could have been, but mainly tawny characteristics. Too much evolved and dissapointing for Taylor. I'v...
- 08:53 Tue 22 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1970 Sandeman
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3332
Re: 1970 Sandeman
Light, but lovely colour changing from ruby to garnet. Slightly dusty / leathery on the nose, but also hints of some very nice red fruit. On the palate some dark plum, cherry and strawberry. Hints of coffee and refined tannin. Not overly complex, but a lovely elegant port that's drinking extremely w...
- 08:48 Tue 22 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1970 Graham
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3573
Re: 1970 Graham
Impressive dark and youthful looking. Dark fruit, rose petal and typical Graham spirity character on the nose. To taste round and full. Packed with fruit, lively and complex. A powerhouse that will improve for many years to come. Great effort from Graham, only reason it didn't make my top 3 is that ...
- 08:35 Tue 22 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1970 Fonseca
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3416
Re: 1970 Fonseca
Dark ruby colour, quite impressive. Very expressive, lively nose. Violets, dark cherries, all not overpowering but intense in its persistence. Packed with flavours: dark fruit, coffee, bay leaf and beautifully integrated fine tannins. Long finish. Very youthful still and incredibly impressive. Head ...
- 08:31 Tue 22 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1970 Dow
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3857
Re: 1970 Dow
Lovely garnet colour with a youthful ruby core. Still some fresh fruit on the nose, red cherry and plum, but overall rather stringent: a bit dusty and hard. Quite firm on the palate, with red fruit, cherry syrup, linear with dry tannins. More youthful than previous examples I tasted of this and very...
- 23:53 Wed 16 May 2012
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Tue 15 May 2012, Horizontal of 1970, honouring Ronnie Roots
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15592
Re: Tue 15 May 2012, Horizontal of 1970, honouring Ronnie Ro
It was indeed a very enjoyable evening with some great company and lovely ports. I'll post some notes when I'm back on a device on which it's a bit easier to type (ie not an ipop). Thanks all for putting together a great evening with a stellar lineup of ports!
- 12:20 Sat 12 May 2012
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: London 15 May - 1970 tasting
- Replies: 61
- Views: 31707
Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting
Very good, this is beginning to look like a proper tasting.RAYC wrote:THRA is in and has declared Graham.
If felt necessary, this would be a nice occasion for me to bring the RO Carvahlas (gifted to me last year very generously by THRA) to taste alongside the regular RO.
- 04:55 Thu 10 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: NV Casal dos Jordoes Finest Reserve Ruby
- Replies: 3
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Re: NV Casal dos Jordões Finest Reserve Ruby
This used to be available in organic shops in Holland (and maybe still is, I don't know), so I bought it once or twice. I was never really keen on it though, thought it was overly sharp and lacking in pretty much everything else.
- 10:10 Tue 08 May 2012
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: London 15 May - 1970 tasting
- Replies: 61
- Views: 31707
Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting
Excellent! I'll amend the first post.Christopher wrote:Please count me in, I can bring a Fonseca 70.
- 10:10 Tue 08 May 2012
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: London 15 May - 1970 tasting
- Replies: 61
- Views: 31707
Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting
Did you incorporate the fact that I'm left-handed into the placemats?jdaw1 wrote:First draft of the placemats.
- Executive decisions have been made about what AHB and RAYC are bringing, and what DRT is adopting from me. Please verify or correct.
- 07:37 Sat 05 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1955 Warre
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3034
Re: 1955 Warre
And thanks again for the decanting advice.AHB wrote:I'm glad to hear that it lived up to all the praise I gave it and that it was enjoyed by all.
- 06:38 Wed 02 May 2012
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2010 Declarations
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19164
Re: 2010 Declarations
I would think that both the Symingtons and TFP have enough top class vineyards, knowledge, capacity etc. to produce vintage quality juice if the conditions are right. So Derek's argument makes more sense (and is actually not as boring as Andy suggests). In the end it does come down to a question of ...
- 06:18 Wed 02 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1955 Warre
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3034
Re: 1955 Warre
And it was excellent indeed. We drank it at D+3. It did gain some weight, but more in flavour than body. Benchmark Warre elegance, showing a bit more strawberry and even some cherry notes than at D+0, but otherwise very similar. Fully mature, but I don't see it going down anytime soon. Loved and tho...
- 16:10 Tue 01 May 2012
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1955 Warre
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3034
1955 Warre
Just decanted for drinking later tonight and had to have a taste because the aromas coming out of the decanter were too good to pass. Very light, nutty colour. Wonderfully elegant, with a deceiving lightness, but oh so complex. Dried citrus, nutty (notably almonds), raisin, but also hints of fig and...
- 13:09 Tue 01 May 2012
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2010 Declarations
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19164
Re: 2010 Declarations
so it may just be that the Symingtons got more of the right grapes in at the right time than Taylor Fladgate I'm sure that will be the Symington line - and it's not hard to imagine what the TFP would say in reply.. ..methinks this is the start of a debate that will run for fifty years! Given that t...
- 11:29 Tue 01 May 2012
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2010 Declarations
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19164
Re: 2010 Declarations
What I find interesting is that the Symington press release speaks of big wines that will age for a long time (at least that's what they say for the Dow Ribeira), and TFP did not declare because of lack of tannin structure. How can this be? Looking forward to seeing some tasting notes on the declare...
- 10:50 Tue 01 May 2012
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: London 15 May - 1970 tasting
- Replies: 61
- Views: 31707
Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting
Received an e-mail from AHB telling me that the Taylor 1970 has arrived and looks fine. That's good news!
- 08:47 Wed 25 Apr 2012
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Delaforce, Tue 24 April 2012, The Bung Hole
- Replies: 32
- Views: 23002
Re: Delaforce, Tue 24 April 2012, The Bung Hole
Derek, how was the 1977? We had it at a 1977 horizontal in 2008 where it was one of the positive surprises of the evening.DRT wrote:My overall impression of Delaforce is that the wines of the 1960s are very good, whilst those from the 1970s and 1980s are variable but mostly weak or bad examples of VP
- 18:16 Sat 21 Apr 2012
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Not corked.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2824
Re: Not corked.
Could it be that something just went wrong at the bottling line? That's the only thing I can think of. Very weird though, not something I've ever seen, or ever hope to see.g-man wrote:what would cause a bottle to have a capsule and a selo, but no cork?