1977 Gould Campbell
Posted: 12:19 Sat 19 Jan 2008
I decided that after an horrific journey home to Heathrow from Munich on Thursday that I should cheer myself up with a decent bottle of vintage port from the cellar. This bottle was selected and stood up last night for about 12 hours before being decanted.
The bottle is wine society stock, sold through U-Vine in August 2006 and kindly shared by Derek. Decanted cleanly, free-hand, off surprisingly little sediment. As it was decanting, it filled my small and windowless decanting room with a wonderful smell of mulled wine and mincemeat.
Immediately from the bottle this wine was a deep, opaque rich red colour with no browning at all. On the nose were dusty cherries and unintegrated alcohol. The cherries filled the mouth, with warm rich spices and left a lovely aftertaste. Very smooth indeed and something to really look forward to.
2 hours after decanting the colour hadn't changed much but the nose had turned to a warm, rich stewed cherry scent with some added intrigue from fresh shredded mint. Really nice.
Initially curry powder and coriander on the tip and sides of the tongue and then a bit of a vacant mid-palate. A touch flavourless. A lot of unintegrated alcohol on swallowing and an aftertase that consists mainly of alcoholic burn for a long time before leaving a bitter cherry-pip in the mouth. Not nice to drink right now but I know this will come round spectacularly.
Alex
The bottle is wine society stock, sold through U-Vine in August 2006 and kindly shared by Derek. Decanted cleanly, free-hand, off surprisingly little sediment. As it was decanting, it filled my small and windowless decanting room with a wonderful smell of mulled wine and mincemeat.
Immediately from the bottle this wine was a deep, opaque rich red colour with no browning at all. On the nose were dusty cherries and unintegrated alcohol. The cherries filled the mouth, with warm rich spices and left a lovely aftertaste. Very smooth indeed and something to really look forward to.
2 hours after decanting the colour hadn't changed much but the nose had turned to a warm, rich stewed cherry scent with some added intrigue from fresh shredded mint. Really nice.
Initially curry powder and coriander on the tip and sides of the tongue and then a bit of a vacant mid-palate. A touch flavourless. A lot of unintegrated alcohol on swallowing and an aftertase that consists mainly of alcoholic burn for a long time before leaving a bitter cherry-pip in the mouth. Not nice to drink right now but I know this will come round spectacularly.
Alex