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- 22:17 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: NV Graham Crusted 2002
- Replies: 2
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Re: 2002 Graham's Crusted
I would be a little disappointed with this result. In my mind, a crusted port should be better than an unfiltered LBV and certainly much better than a ruby. You are drinking a blend (and therefore the extra complexity brought by a blend) of years and lotes which just failed to make the vintage blend...
- 22:01 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1979 Graham Malvedos
- Replies: 4
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Re: 1979 Graham's Malvedos
From ½ bottle. Pale colour, burnt sienna in tone and with a pale orange rim. Burnt raisins on the nose, stewed and a little unattractive. Sweet stewed and spoiled - probably heat damaged. Pleasant aftertaste, sweet and bitter at the same time. The other half bottle (which was the one tasted by Jacob...
- 21:59 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1984 Graham Malvedos
- Replies: 5
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Re: 1984 Graham's Malvedos
Ex-cellars. Slightly lighter in colour than the 1982 shown alongside. Centre just transparent. A promising nose of dusty raspberries. Sweet and smooth entry; delicious sweet cherry and and raspberry fruit all over the palate. Soft and gentle tannins support a ripe acidity. Wonderful development in t...
- 21:58 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1987 Graham Malvedos
- Replies: 5
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Re: 1987 Graham's Malvedos
Solid red colour, centre just opaque. Slightly woody on the nose, some harshness and holloness. Pleasant texture; smooth and with gentle tannins on the edge of the tongue and teeth. Plenty of fruit on the palate - which just keeps growing in volume. The aftertaste takes a long time to come through b...
- 21:57 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1988 Graham Malvedos
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5768
Re: 1988 Graham's Malvedos
Ex-cellars. Deep red, solid centre which is just opaque. A spicy nose, very young and immature. Initially hollow, with some tannins in the wine but these are soft and almost hidden. Rich, dark cherry juice and black chocolate. Full and rich aftertaste, dominated by the dark chocolate and black cherr...
- 21:56 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1992 Graham Malvedos
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3214
Re: 1992 Graham's Malvedos (half bottle #2)
From ½ bottle. Generous red colour, lighter than the 1990 shown alongside and with a clear centre. Some harshness on the nose, but also some floral overtones; not particularly attractive. Nice texture, slightly stewed fruit, subdued tannins and an attractive pepperiness. Dry aftertaste, cheek fillin...
- 21:55 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1995 Graham Malvedos
- Replies: 3
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Re: 1995 Graham's Malvedos (half bottle #2)
From ½ bottle. Warm red colour, deep rose coloured and transparent centre. Cigar ash on the nose over a core of stewed fruit. Sweet and smooth entry before the tannins grap hold over the stewed red fruit. Long aftertaste, dominated by fruit with a faint hint of coffee. A decent wine, but of a standa...
- 21:53 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1996 Graham Malvedos
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5529
Re: 1996 Graham's Malvedos
Ex-cellars. Opaque, deep red and an impenetrable centre. Hot and spicy on the nose, youthfully exuberant and still showing blackcurrants. Soft texture in the mouth, fruit forward; sweet and ripe but with good tannic grip. Delicious on the palate. Good fruity aftertaste, with sweet blackcurrants domi...
- 21:40 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Noval 2007 - handle with care!
- Replies: 10
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Re: Noval 2007 - handle with care!
I know that some people are attracted to presentation packagings, but is it really necessary for wines like Vesuvio to be entirely packed in those fancy (and doubtless very expensive) boxes? Yes, it is absolutely essential that Vesuvio should be packed in the fancy and expensive boxes. (a) they are...
- 21:33 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: London, May 14th: 1978 Horizontal & 1985 vs. 1987
- Replies: 57
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Re: London, May 14th: 1978 Horizontal & 1985 vs. 1987
Axel,
Apologies for any inconvenience caused, but I'm not going to be able to make this offline on May 14th. I'll give my place up to someone else who is able to attend.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused, but I'm not going to be able to make this offline on May 14th. I'll give my place up to someone else who is able to attend.
- 13:38 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1976 Graham Malvedos
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4460
Re: 1976 Graham's Malvedos
It was no hardship to miss out on this unfortunately TCA contaminated bottlejdaw1 wrote:Alas I was unable to take a tasting note of this port.
- 12:31 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Apostrophe crimes
- Replies: 2072
- Views: 687454
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Very impressive and still years from it's peak. 94/199. Cool scoring system. A moderately irritating feature of the iPhone's otherwise excellent spell check on entry capabilities is that it insists on adding an apostrophe between it and s regardless of the context. I can only apologise for having m...
- 11:46 Tue 30 Mar 2010
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Time for a TN sort?
- Replies: 448
- Views: 295454
Re: Time for a TN sort?
Thanks for the explanation. Now I realise that only those wines allocated an abbreviation are vintage ports. The penny has dropped.
- 22:33 Mon 29 Mar 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Fiftieth Anniversary - Wednesday 19th May
- Replies: 74
- Views: 38344
Re: Fiftieth Anniversary - Wednesday 19th May
JGH added to the list
- 23:13 Sun 28 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1948 Croft
- Replies: 0
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1948 Croft vintage port
Light red in colour, with a very slight hint of green on the rim. Mandarin peel all over the nose, redolent of a middle-aged Sauterne. Sweet and mouthcoating flavours on entry. Initally Sauterne-like but with so many layers of flavour developing on the tongue - very sweet oranges everywhere. A long ...
- 23:08 Sun 28 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1927 Fonseca
- Replies: 0
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1927 Fonseca vintage port
Golden colour, a rich brown with an orange rim. Barley sugar nose, straw and a hint of pear drops. Surprisingly dry in the mouth, very tertiary and evolved, with little fruit but lots of nut flavours and that lovely bitter-sweet barley sugar. Quite a delicious tawny and very drinkable. The aftertast...
- 23:05 Sun 28 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1910 Andresen Colheita (bottled 1973)
- Replies: 0
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1910 Andresen Colheita (bottled 1973)
Bottled 1973. Fusty nose, perhaps some bottle stink, underneath which was some atractive molasses and some unattractive black treacle. Smooth entry, sweet and pleasant but then some bitter tones come through that spoil the mouthfeel, but these resolve themselves to yield a balanced and pleasant mout...
- 23:03 Sun 28 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1900 Ferreira Colheita (bottled 1972)
- Replies: 0
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1900 Ferreira Colheita (bottled 1972)
Bottled 1972. Slightly cloudy chestnut colour. Musty nose of rubber bands kept in a drawer for too long. A sweet entry that is followed by the odd rubber-band tone that is quite unpleasant although others enjoyed this wine far more than I did. The aftertaste is reasonably pleasant but drops off very...
- 23:00 Sun 28 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1900 Borges Colheita
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1973
1900 Borges Colheita
Bottled 1947. Cloudy and a very dark chestnut brown, holding strongly into the rim. A subdued nose with some medicinal notes and some molasses, but strangely hollow. Thick entry into the mouth, sweet but with balancing acidity following in the mid-palate. Plenty of fruit and complexity. Good afterta...
- 22:58 Sun 28 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1890 AJ da Silva Colheita
- Replies: 6
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1890 AJ da Silva colheita port
Bottling date not known. IVDP sello reference number CF682137. Light chestnut colour, holding right into the rim. A slight menthol tone on the nose with a fresh apple-iness and mint from the spirit. Searing acidity in the mouth but with some lovely toffee tones, biscuits and brazil nuts. Great initi...
- 22:50 Sun 28 Mar 2010
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Time for a TN sort?
- Replies: 448
- Views: 295454
Re: Time for a TN sort?
Something that has puzzled me for a while, is the occasional apparent inconsistency in the layout of the tasting note index. By way of illustration, consider: 1863 Ferreira - there are two tasting notes and these both show as separate sub-titles under the 1863 title 1890 unknown - there are two tast...
- 22:17 Sun 28 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1982 Croft
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6162
Re: 1982 Croft
Doesn't stop me from being right and the ref from being yet another example of horribly biased decision making intent on following his own agenda and interpretation of the rules rather than there to help the flow of the game. There were 12 other people sitting round the table and they know the truth...
- 22:13 Sun 28 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1975 Offley
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1587
1975 Offley
1975 Offley Boa Vista vintage port From a bottle which showed signs of slight seepage and a cork that was failing slightly; fill level was good. Decanted off a surprising amount of thick and heavy set sediment. Very pale in colour, a light orange - almost the colour of old-fashioned barley sugar. B...
- 22:08 Sun 28 Mar 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1963 Offley
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2200
Re: Offley 1963
Chris
To help the process which sorts out the tasting notes into the indices, could you edit the title of this TN to read "1963 Offley" please.
Thanks,
Alex
To help the process which sorts out the tasting notes into the indices, could you edit the title of this TN to read "1963 Offley" please.
Thanks,
Alex
- 00:42 Sat 27 Mar 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Fiftieth Anniversary - Wednesday 19th May
- Replies: 74
- Views: 38344
Re: Fiftieth Anniversary - Wednesday 19th May
Giles Wigoder will be added to the list of attendees shortly