1994 Tesco
Posted: 17:12 Fri 10 Aug 2007
Having returned home for the best part of two weeks with no travel planned now until September, I decided to celebrate in the way that we all know - and open a bottle of extra-special port. The first bottle that came to hand from Death Row was a bottle of Tesco's 1994 VP from the Symingtons.
Decanted cleanly, a very dark red colour, very youthful looking, not a lot of coarse sediment but a fair amount of fine stuff that needed to be filtered out. The most stunning thing about this wine was the incredible smell of mashed bananas that it gave off as it was going into the decanter.
1 hour
Tasted after 1 hour. The colour has hardly changed but the nose has lost all that banana tone to be replaced with a light and delicate perfumed nose of roses and redcurrants. Dry entry, rather hollow, but pleasant development in the midpalate with mature fruit and some meat juice flavours. A little too much alcohol on swallowing, but then there are some very pleasant cedar and tobacco flavours on an aftertaste of very respectable length. On this showing, this is a perfectly respectable wine, although below average compared to its peers - but then its price is certainly far below that of its peers!
More notes later.
Alex
Decanted cleanly, a very dark red colour, very youthful looking, not a lot of coarse sediment but a fair amount of fine stuff that needed to be filtered out. The most stunning thing about this wine was the incredible smell of mashed bananas that it gave off as it was going into the decanter.
1 hour
Tasted after 1 hour. The colour has hardly changed but the nose has lost all that banana tone to be replaced with a light and delicate perfumed nose of roses and redcurrants. Dry entry, rather hollow, but pleasant development in the midpalate with mature fruit and some meat juice flavours. A little too much alcohol on swallowing, but then there are some very pleasant cedar and tobacco flavours on an aftertaste of very respectable length. On this showing, this is a perfectly respectable wine, although below average compared to its peers - but then its price is certainly far below that of its peers!
More notes later.
Alex