1927 Croft vintage port
Posted: 22:23 Sat 12 Jul 2008
Consumed at the Old, Odd & Great Off-line at the Portal Restaurant in London on 11th July 2008.
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1927 Croft
Posted: 00:18 Tue 15 Jul 2008
Terrible level: bottle 20% empty. Pale brick red. Acidic nose. Acidic in the mouth. Dead. Later, marginally less terrible, but still very tired and acidic. Dead.
1927 Croft: sediment.
Posted: 00:29 Tue 15 Jul 2008
1927 Croft: sediment.
Posted: 22:45 Tue 15 Jul 2008
I don't have quite as bad a impression of this from the evening of the tasting, although I will say it was not a good bottle of port, but my note from two days later is not complimentary:
+48 Hours
Now very clear and bright with a few small lumps of sediment in the bottom of the glass. Lots of VA on the nose - nail varnish. Very hot and acidic. Much, much worse than it was on Friday, which is hugely disappointing as the clour and appearance had improved enormously.
+48 Hours
Now very clear and bright with a few small lumps of sediment in the bottom of the glass. Lots of VA on the nose - nail varnish. Very hot and acidic. Much, much worse than it was on Friday, which is hugely disappointing as the clour and appearance had improved enormously.
Posted: 17:53 Fri 18 Jul 2008
My impressions on the night were:
Cloudy appearance. Deep honey colour with a hint of orange in the centre. Plasticine on the nose, strangely antisceptic. The antisceptic comes through massively in the mouth, rosemary but with some sweetness coming through eventually. Really quite unpleasant and spoiled. From a seeping bottle with a level below low shoulder. Not rated.
Cloudy appearance. Deep honey colour with a hint of orange in the centre. Plasticine on the nose, strangely antisceptic. The antisceptic comes through massively in the mouth, rosemary but with some sweetness coming through eventually. Really quite unpleasant and spoiled. From a seeping bottle with a level below low shoulder. Not rated.