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1985 Calem
Posted: 02:53 Sun 04 Jan 2009
by jdaw1
Am ‘emergency’ tasting, chez jdaw1, starting at 4:30pm Saturday 3rd January 2009. Links:
Re: 1985 Cálem
Posted: 05:43 Sun 04 Jan 2009
by jdaw1
1985 Cálem: orange! Orange much like the
1963 Borges & Irmão was orange. Smells old too, with lots of acid in the nose. Eric D said ‟fermented dairy product”, and ‟yoghurt”. To taste a lovely oil texture, light flavour, hot at the end. Very short. Very thin sweet in a barley-sugar way, and
AJRH rightly adding ‟a little faded”.
Functional nice port, most of a decade ago.
Also see the ½:½ blend of this 1985 and the
1994, the blend labelled
1989½Â±4½ Cálem.
Re: 1985 Cálem
Posted: 18:01 Sun 04 Jan 2009
by EricD
1985 Cálem: Surprisingly light tawny color. upon nosing and tasting, it was quite evident that this was just a little past its prime. Still fairly decent, however, with a nose of milky caramel and yogurt. The taste was quite smooth, with no discernable tannins remaining, again I noted that it was 'creamy' - Eric T noted 'cream soda'. Quite pleasant overall, but fading a little.
Re: 1985 Cálem
Posted: 18:31 Sun 04 Jan 2009
by uncle tom
I'm a bit surprised!
I have a few of these in the cellar, and when I last tackled one in Dec '05, I was suitably impressed, but thought a little more time was needed..
- Will try to re-visit before the year is out..
Tom
Re: 1985 Cálem
Posted: 21:22 Sun 04 Jan 2009
by jdaw1
This one was very different from the
only other Cá85 that I have tried (which I also didn’t like). Maybe an imperfectly stored bottle.
Re: 1985 Cálem
Posted: 15:22 Thu 15 Jan 2009
by jdaw1
The following day, with Eric, the
Cálem 1985 still smelt of acid and stink.
Tasted of same barley sugar, and heat. ED said ‟candied citron”, and ‟milk chocolate”, I agreeing with the former.