Links:
- Review of the evening as a whole;
- 1960 Dow (THRA);
- 1977 Smith Woodhouse (JDAW);
- 1985 Dow (CPR1);
- 2011 Niepoort Crusted (from 2007 and 2008 crops) (CPR2);
- Placemats (and parameters by which made);
- Planning and arrangements.
I often think that I need to keep crusted port longer than I do. I bought heaps of Dow 97 crusted and managed to keep a few, they are lovely now and will keep a bit I think. But when I pay a tenner a bottle for port I inevitably neck them with gay abandon so they never seem to last.domfwc wrote:Reference the Niepoort Crusted 2011, I was at a tasting with winemaker Nick Delaforce last year. It is, indeed, a blend of the 2007 and 2008, from my notes 80% from the 2008 vintage. I can't find my tasting notes but I seem to recall preferring the previous bottling which was a 2003 / 2005 blend. It may have just been the extra age of that first bottling.