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Decanted for 2 hours before tasting and drunk on 30/1/08.

Very pale colour, tawny looking, distinctly orange with a pale green rim. On the nose I picked up violets and some unintegrated alcohol.

This port had a neutral entry with a good acidic structure and flavours of barley sugars. Orange peel and grapefruit juice came through in the mid-palate.

The aftertaste was of moderate length and was just like sucking on a barley sugar.

A rather unremarkable port that wasn't bad, just old. 1/0 on the Uncle Tom scale or 86/100.

From the same bottle served blind...

Orange colour, slightly cloudy. Very sweet nose. Light in the mouth but smooth with a taste of crystalised sugar.

I guessed Cockburn 1920

We did all agree that this port was showing the same sort of "brown sugar" flavours that you find in an old Cockburn. I must admit that I was not surprised that a lot of the guesses were for old Cockburn.

Alex

I quite liked this on initial tasting: looked like barley sugar, smelled like barley sugar and tasted like barley sugar. Very old looking so no chance of guessing the year. Sadly, it just got a little boring after a while, especially as we had Warre and Martinez to play with.

I think my guess was Smith Woodhouse 1947, another Port that I've never tasted before.

brrrr ....

color and taste did not mach,

yellow ?!

sweet, simple, alcohol was not integraded...
well : not my personal favorit

Links to the other ports from the line-up:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1963 Borges;
• 1963 Royal Oporto;
• 1970 Warre;
• 1983 Harvey's (Martinez);
• 1985 Martinez.