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1985 Royal Oporto

Posted: 11:51 Sun 29 Nov 2009
by jdaw1
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=3412]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Question needing an answer by Saturday. For nine adults at a slightly belated Thanksgiving lunch to be held on Sunday (Brit, Paris, not the official day of Thanksgiving: I am not interested in hearing it) I will be serving three bottles of reasonable fake champagne, several bottles of an acceptable Bordeaux, and then three bottles of 1985 port.
Resulting in:

Re: 1985 Royal Oporto

Posted: 12:00 Sun 29 Nov 2009
by jdaw1
Royal Oporto 1985, at D+0. Very translucent, tawny, on the boundary between orange and red. A light nose, and of sugar. To taste closed, somewhat acrid in the mid- to late-palate. Good length. Sugar the dominant taste.

SCP-DFF nosed ‟cherries”; our daughter (aged 3) nosed ‟beer”.

Re: 1985 Royal Oporto

Posted: 12:57 Sun 29 Nov 2009
by DRT
Being a lovely tawny colour and very sweet, perhaps this fine example of a vintage port would be best appreciated by the French side of the table?

Re: 1985 Royal Oporto

Posted: 13:03 Sun 29 Nov 2009
by jdaw1
Nine adults: a Brit, a mix-up, two Frenchwomen (one of whom has a good palate for port) and a Frenchman; an Irishman, his wife of type unknown; a Canadian, his Japanese wife. A non-port-competent French side of the table might be difficult to arrange.

Re: 1985 Royal Oporto

Posted: 13:08 Sun 29 Nov 2009
by DRT
Perhaps you could persuade the lone Frenchman that you opened it especially for him as the other two are not worthy of his refined palate?

Re: 1985 Royal Oporto

Posted: 20:08 Sun 29 Nov 2009
by jdaw1
RO85: D+4 to D+8hr. Lots of heat. Sugar. Lots of heat. Far too old, and before it was too old, it wasn’t good.

Conan: blackberry and paint thinner.
Conan: brown sugar, not white.
SCP-DFF: with goat cheese it tastes of vanilla.
JDAW: ‟I wish you hadn’t mentioned the paint thinner, because you were right”.

Re: 1985 Royal Oporto

Posted: 23:08 Tue 01 Dec 2009
by jdaw1
D+60hr: not good. Acidic, hot, slightly chemical old tawny.

Re: 1985 Royal Oporto

Posted: 20:44 Wed 02 Dec 2009
by mosesbotbol
Other RO vintages I have tried were on the simple and sweet side, turning tawny early. They can be a welcome choice when it is casual drinking.