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Part of the Ferreira vertical in Manhattan on Friday 17th October 2008. Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1977 Ferreira;
• 1978 Ferreira;
• 1983 Ferreira Quinta do Seixo;
• 1985 Ferreira;
• 1995 Ferreira;
• 2000 Ferreira;
• 1996 Quinta de la Rosa;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Placemats.

http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080929_ferreira_colours.gif 2000 Ferreira LBV : Black. Nose of young blackberry jam. Lovely mouthfeel, very long, jammy and sweet. Long. Big. Later with that same roughness mid-palate as seen on ’83 and ’94. http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080929_ferreira_lbv_200...

1994 Ferreira: black-red. Plummy black-fruit nose. No heat. Same mid-palate roughness as ’83. Later smoother decant long. Later, roughness returns. 4/5.

1983 Ferreira Quinta do Seixo: Red-brown; odd reddish rust. Nose of pineapple. To taste hot, and rough mid to late palate. 3/3.

http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080929_ferreira_colours.gif 1980 Ferreira : Brown with remnants of red. Richer nose than the ’75, but still much sugar. To taste less caramel and much more heat at start. Less good finish. Still very long. 7/6. http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080929_ferreira_1980...

http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080929_ferreira_colours.gif 1975 Ferreira : very translucent. Light brown. looks old. A bual nose, with caramel and no fruit. Taste as nose, but a silken mouthfeel. Very long caramel. Oily lychee-texture mouthfeel. My best ever ’75. Uncle Tom score 8/6. http://www....

Monday 29th September 2008, in the Ferreira lodge with Roy Hersh’s Harvest Tour.

Tasted:

• 1975 Ferreira;
• 1980 Ferreira;
• 1983 Ferreira Quinta do Seixo;
• 1994 Ferreira;
• 2000 Ferreira LBV.

Monday 29th September 2008, in the Ferreira lodge with Roy Hersh’s Harvest Tour.

Tasted:

• 1975 Ferreira;
• 1980 Ferreira;
• 1983 Ferreira Quinta do Seixo;
• 1994 Ferreira;
• 2000 Ferreira LBV.

Monday 29th September 2008, in the Ferreira lodge with Roy Hersh’s Harvest Tour.

Tasted:

• 1975 Ferreira;
• 1980 Ferreira;
• 1983 Ferreira Quinta do Seixo;
• 1994 Ferreira;
• 2000 Ferreira LBV.

Monday 29th September 2008, in the Ferreira lodge with Roy Hersh’s Harvest Tour.

Tasted:

• 1975 Ferreira;
• 1980 Ferreira;
• 1983 Ferreira Quinta do Seixo;
• 1994 Ferreira;
• 2000 Ferreira LBV.

Monday 29th September 2008, in the Ferreira lodge with Roy Hersh’s Harvest Tour.

Tasted:

• 1975 Ferreira;
• 1980 Ferreira;
• 1983 Ferreira Quinta do Seixo;
• 1994 Ferreira;
• 2000 Ferreira LBV.

Can you work from a picture of a bottle, uneven foreshortening and all? If yes, perhaps some of the following would help: 20080929_ferreira_1980.gif ; 20080929_ferreira_1994.gif ; 20080929_ferreira_colours.gif ; 20080929_ferreira_lbv_2000.gif ; 20080929_seixo_1983.gif ; 20080929_ferreira_1975.gif ; ...

2am.

Are those prices in GBP or in local money?

The most recent backup was a little over 24 hours before the hack attack. Posts made in that interval are MIA.

The Reference section will hopefully grow into a substantial array of threads containing or linking to useful information. Perhaps we should be creating a thread at the top of this section which indexes and links to each topic in some sort of logical order? Only when there are so many threads that ...

When enough sets have been sold such that costs have been recovered, subsequent sales will go towards subsidising port at :tpf: tastings I attend. A noble cause, I’m sure you agree. My costs have now been recovered. Further sales, whether by me or by the holder of the UK-located inventory, DRT , wi...

For some reason, I can't find the original posting that I made. Administrators, did you take it down? No, I promoted it to the brand new Reference forum. BTW, the first post in this thread is copied from the wrong place. And thank-you for typing the text: good port does slither down rather nicely.

Thanks Tom — thread re-titled. 1927 Taylor (originally a mystery bottle) : Orange-hue pale tawny, nosing hot, and of sugar. Did I detect orange? Not sure. A nasty vegetable cloying sensation in the back of the throat. Late in the evening the back-palate found coffee. Not good, and definitely not Co...

A deep vertical of Cockburn’s, described Cockburn’s Director Miguel Côrte-Real as better than any he had seen in three decades at the company. Because of CG’s unavailability in the afternoon, the younger vintages were sampled whilst the sun was up, the older ones in the evening. And it really was...

Evening session.

Afternoon session.
Me! And SRC.

Afternoon session.
Left side, near to far: BMHR; NN; THRA; MC-R; DRT; SL; KL.
Right side, near to far: RAH; SLT; AHB; AP; ADV JDAW; SRC.

Afternoon session.
Left side, near to far: AHB; SLT; RAH.
Right side, near to far: THRA; NN; BMHR.

2007 Cockburn cask sample (Touriga Franca): purple colour, of course. Big flowers! Much hotter than the Touriga Nacional cask sample. Big violets too.

No pictures — sorry.