NV Dirks Blend
Posted: 19:43 Tue 08 Jun 2010
I had lunch with Dirk Niepoort last week and he served a Port after dinner to let me guess what it was. To make a long story short it was a blend of:
Niepoort 42 1 Liter bottle
Graham 55
Taylor 63
Warre 66
Fonseca 70
and some 77 and 85, that I cannot remember.
This were leftovers from a tasting he attended at the beginning of the week and he prepared himself a small (very small) private reserve out of this. Since he started the tasting with: I will call you whatever you want if you tell me what this is, I guess I was slightly off with my NIepoort 66 that I never had.
Overall this port tasted like a good 63-66 to me, powerful, but matured.
Axel
Niepoort 42 1 Liter bottle
Graham 55
Taylor 63
Warre 66
Fonseca 70
and some 77 and 85, that I cannot remember.
This were leftovers from a tasting he attended at the beginning of the week and he prepared himself a small (very small) private reserve out of this. Since he started the tasting with: I will call you whatever you want if you tell me what this is, I guess I was slightly off with my NIepoort 66 that I never had.
Overall this port tasted like a good 63-66 to me, powerful, but matured.
Axel