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To commemorate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II exceeding the late Queen Victoria’s record time on the throne, a select band of us, some subjects of Her Majesty, some not so blessed, gathered in the Boot & Flogger to drink ‘Port Fit for a Queen’. We did well.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1924 Offley (THRA);
• 1952 Graham Single Harvest Tawny (Flora) (JADS);
• 1952 Graham Single Harvest Tawny (Fauna) (JADS);
• 1952 Dalva Golden White (JDAW);
• 1955 Graham (DJ);
• 1955 Dow (DRT);
• 1960 Dow (IDJ) (IDJ);
• 1960 Dow (BMHR) (BMHR);
• 1960 Croft (WPS);
• 1960 Warre (W60) (PW);
• 1960 Warre (£) (PW);
• 1963 Taylor (JDAW);
• 1963 Cockburn (RAYC);
• 1970 Dow (WPS);
• 1970 Fonseca (CMAG);
• 1977 Taylor (CPR);
• Placemats (and parameters by which made);
• Food order (except that the B&F doesn’t do skinny fries);
• Planning and arrangements.

1952 Dalva Golden White, my last bottle of. Smooth and rich, lovely and long. Middling weight. Quite dry in comparison to other Ports, both on this table and not. The dryness made this definitely different from other Ports.

Good, perhaps even excellent, but I not derive as much pleasure from it as I have previously. The bottle? A change in my palate? My previous assessments having been incorrect?

I found this to be rather weak in the presence of the Graham's 1952 SHT and the VPs. I recall it being much more acidic, nutty and lacking fruit.

I suspect that this is a wine that deserves to drunk in the right context, which last night was not.

Not surprising as it is a white Port and everything else you had was red.


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Oh what was the bottling date? Some are better than others.


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jdaw1 wrote:Good, perhaps even excellent, but I not derive as much pleasure from it as I have previously. The bottle? A change in my palate? My previous assessments having been incorrect?

Were all of your bottles bottled in the same year?

There's a pretty distinct difference between the outstanding 2006 bottling, the still excellent 2007 bottling, and the following 2008-2010 bottlings. 500ml bottles are, I believe, always at least 2010 though there may have been some done in 2009 as well. 750ml bottles are at most 2009 as by 2010 they had switched to 500ml to conserve the remaining supply.