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As part of the plan to drink JDAW’s US-located port, a tasting of Taylor, Fonseca, Warre was held on Saturday 18th April 2009 at Petite Abeille, 401 East 20th Street at First Avenue, NY 10010-7501.

Links:

• Review of evening as a whole;
• 1948 Taylor;
• 1963 Taylor;
• 1966 Taylor;
• 1966 Fonseca;
• 1966 Warre;
• 1970 Fonseca;
• 1977 Taylor;
• 1977 Fonseca;
• 1977 Warre;
• 1985 Fonseca;
• 1985 Warre;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Placemats.

This thread is to hold tasting notes and comments on the Warre 1985.

Warre 1985 decanted at 14:15. Mid-red paler than ideal for an ’75 but otherwise in fine form. I’m feeling the tongue puckering.

jdaw1 wrote:paler than ideal for an ’75

I didn’t realise that you had a concept of an ideal ’75!

jdaw1 wrote:Warre 1985 decanted at 14:15. Mid-red paler than ideal for an ’75 but otherwise in fine form. I’m feeling the tongue puckering.

Yikes! The worst possible non-apostrophe typo. I meant, of course, ’85. Sackcloth and ashes!

W85: third-darkest, behind F85 (inevitably) and F66 (unsurprisingly). Nosing and tasting of perfume, and very hot. A poor showing of this generally solid wine.

ugh..

Celery, condensed milk, puke/tequila nose with some tomatoes.

Full cranberries with harsh tannic bite.

Weird blueberry finish.

82. -the nose is very offputting but the body is there.

g-man wrote:puke

Does that mean the same to you as it does to me? If so, it is the first time I have seen a nose described as smelling of vommit

DRT wrote:

g-man wrote:puke

Does that mean the same to you as it does to me? If so, it is the first time I have seen a nose described as smelling of vommit

yea, if you've ever smell cheap tequila... that's what this reminded me of.

Quite dark in colour. Odd nose with lime and stewed tomato (odd to find such a pronounced aroma of tomato in a port!). There is some young fruit on the palate, but that's completely overwhelmed by a sour, medicinal, bitter taste. Not pleasant at all, although not at all as bad as my last experience with this port, which was completely ruined by VA. 83 points.

Meaty, and a bit like a spice shop in the nose. It's very thin in the mouth, too sweet and gamy. It's clearly off, perhaps cooked? This would be the second problematic bottle of W85 we've had recently. (NS)