2007 Quinta do Crasto
Posted: 10:47 Fri 22 May 2009
Consumed on 20 May 2009 at The Crusted Pipe in a "bring a bottle to share" and 2007 Horizontal offline.
One of 5 samples of the 2007 Vintage tasted in the mini-offline. The tasting was carried out "double blind" (unusually in the scientific sense, as the test administrator, AHB, did not know what he was administrating to us). Hopefully Derek still has the key of which letters was allocated to which shipper .
The original title of this thread is/was 2007 "B" Vintage Port. Once the shipper is disclosed, it will be renamed.
B was dreadful. Muted and tight, there was little on the nose and less on the palate. A bit of a tannic structure but not a great deal and more worrying was a complete lack of fruit. Although I have no experience of this sort of thing, I can't see this developing into anything great...Though, due to my lack of experience, I hope that I am proven wrong with time!
[Anyone like to take a bet that I've just been defaming the Vargellas Vihna Velha?]
One of 5 samples of the 2007 Vintage tasted in the mini-offline. The tasting was carried out "double blind" (unusually in the scientific sense, as the test administrator, AHB, did not know what he was administrating to us). Hopefully Derek still has the key of which letters was allocated to which shipper .
The original title of this thread is/was 2007 "B" Vintage Port. Once the shipper is disclosed, it will be renamed.
B was dreadful. Muted and tight, there was little on the nose and less on the palate. A bit of a tannic structure but not a great deal and more worrying was a complete lack of fruit. Although I have no experience of this sort of thing, I can't see this developing into anything great...Though, due to my lack of experience, I hope that I am proven wrong with time!
[Anyone like to take a bet that I've just been defaming the Vargellas Vihna Velha?]