Wed 5th December at the Bunghole
Posted: 17:40 Sun 09 Dec 2012
On Wednesday 5th December, three of us got together at the Bunghole to taste a sample bottle of the Borges Muito Velho that was being auctioned the following day. This is a port that was kept in the barrel in the Borges lodge for many years before being bottled in 1947. The bottles were kept in the lodge until a sample was submitted to the IVDP in 2007, when it was approved as "muito velho" tawny port.
We also had Offley Boa Vista 1963 vintage port, Ramos Pinto 1959 colheita (bottled 1973), Smith Woodhouse 1983 and Porto Cabral 1940 - which we believed to be a white colheita.
None of the ports were blockbusters, but all made for very decent if rather eclectic drinking.
The organising thread can be found here.
We also had Offley Boa Vista 1963 vintage port, Ramos Pinto 1959 colheita (bottled 1973), Smith Woodhouse 1983 and Porto Cabral 1940 - which we believed to be a white colheita.
None of the ports were blockbusters, but all made for very decent if rather eclectic drinking.
The organising thread can be found here.