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Served blind at this off-line at the Crusting Pipe, London, on 9th March 2010.

The ports:

• Croft 1982
• Croft 2000
• Croft 1985 x2*
• Niepoort 2003
• Taylor 1980*
• Taylor Quinta da Terra Feita 1986
• Warre 1970
• Warre 1977
• Warre 1983

Wines marked "*" were purchase on the night at TCP due to a world record consumption of 1 bottle each in less than 2 hours, which included dinner

For some unknown reason I failed to take a note of this one.

The guesses:

• DJP: Taylor 2000 (1 point)
• RLC: Noval 1970 (0 points)
• WS1: Warre 1994 (0 points)
• CSD: Niepoort 1992 (0 points)
• AHB: knew what it was before tasting it (0 points)
• DRT: brought this bottle (0 points)
• MKD: 1994 (0 points)

Group score: 1/12

DRT wrote:For some unknown reason I failed to take a note of this one.

Likewise. Left all my notes on the table, and can't remember this one!

This bottle was quite tricky for me to score. Obviously very young and quite closed, it showed decent structure, but it was hard to get a look at the fruit though the acid and tannin. I have really enjoyed Croft VP lately, so I may pick one up as a flyer. 84? (with 89-91 potential?)

The only bit I remeber that it had a very dark red to black colour and was fairly closed. Also had some chocolate flavours and a longe finish noted. All the ingredients are there. In ~20 years this should develop into a very good Port indeed.