An odd bottle, part of a job lot bought a couple of years ago, the others all now history!
Very sound cork extracted in one piece. Decanted last night, average amount of fine gritty sediment. Excellent colour.
First sip - superb nose, free of bottle stink, young.
+ 2hrs, a nightcap. Approachable, but a young and powerful wine; little more than half way to full maturity.
More anon..
Tom
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1985 Taylor vintage port
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+ 20hrs
Not greatly changed from last night. A very sound wine but very immature. The only negative I can give this is a very slight element of dilution, but that's really being a bit picky!
However, the raw tannins do make this bottle hard work (for me, anyway)
What amuses me is the 'drinking windows' assigned by the good and the great to this wine:
Broadbent says 2005 - 2025
Mayson says now (2004) to 2020
- and Suckling reckoned it should have been drunk to extinction eight years ago...!
My own take is that this is not a wine I want to re-visit for another five years, and then only in the interests of science!
Broadbent's pitch is not unreasonable for those who prefer young tannic wines, but those (like me) who like their port properly mature, need to wait much longer.
I would pitch the optimum drinking window for this wine at around 2020 - 2040
Will score tomorrow
Tom
Not greatly changed from last night. A very sound wine but very immature. The only negative I can give this is a very slight element of dilution, but that's really being a bit picky!
However, the raw tannins do make this bottle hard work (for me, anyway)
What amuses me is the 'drinking windows' assigned by the good and the great to this wine:
Broadbent says 2005 - 2025
Mayson says now (2004) to 2020
- and Suckling reckoned it should have been drunk to extinction eight years ago...!
My own take is that this is not a wine I want to re-visit for another five years, and then only in the interests of science!
Broadbent's pitch is not unreasonable for those who prefer young tannic wines, but those (like me) who like their port properly mature, need to wait much longer.
I would pitch the optimum drinking window for this wine at around 2020 - 2040
Will score tomorrow
Tom
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly - W.S. Churchill
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48hrs on, and very little evolution since it was first decanted
Time to give this bottle a score.
For immediate gratification the wine is substantially compromised by its lack of maturity - it is still quite closed.
Those who like the young stuff might be more generous, but as a quaff for today this only just manages a 5 in my book.
Where's it going?
I'm far from sure that this will be fully mature in ten year's time, but I feel that when it does reach maturity, it will be celebrated as one of the Taylor greats.
If it had a little more substance I would pitch this as a prospective 10, as it is, I'm happy to give it a score of 5-9
Tom
Time to give this bottle a score.
For immediate gratification the wine is substantially compromised by its lack of maturity - it is still quite closed.
Those who like the young stuff might be more generous, but as a quaff for today this only just manages a 5 in my book.
Where's it going?
I'm far from sure that this will be fully mature in ten year's time, but I feel that when it does reach maturity, it will be celebrated as one of the Taylor greats.
If it had a little more substance I would pitch this as a prospective 10, as it is, I'm happy to give it a score of 5-9
Tom
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly - W.S. Churchill
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