Served blind at this off-line at the Crusting Pipe, London, on 9th March 2010.
The ports:
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
2000 Croft
2000 Croft
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
Re: 2000 Croft
For some unknown reason I failed to take a note of this one.
The guesses:
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)
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
Re: 2000 Croft
Likewise. Left all my notes on the table, and can't remember this one!DRT wrote:For some unknown reason I failed to take a note of this one.
Mark
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Re: 2000 Croft
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?)
Re: 2000 Croft
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.
"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough"
Mark Twain
Mark Twain