[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=3412]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Question needing an answer by Saturday. For nine adults at a slightly belated Thanksgiving lunch to be held on Sunday (Brit, Paris, not the official day of Thanksgiving: I am not interested in hearing it) I will be serving three bottles of reasonable fake champagne, several bottles of an acceptable Bordeaux, and then three bottles of 1985 port.
Royal Oporto 1985, at D+0. Very translucent, tawny, on the boundary between orange and red. A light nose, and of sugar. To taste closed, somewhat acrid in the mid- to late-palate. Good length. Sugar the dominant taste.
Nine adults: a Brit, a mix-up, two Frenchwomen (one of whom has a good palate for port) and a Frenchman; an Irishman, his wife of type unknown; a Canadian, his Japanese wife. A non-port-competent French side of the table might be difficult to arrange.
RO85: D+4 to D+8hr. Lots of heat. Sugar. Lots of heat. Far too old, and before it was too old, it wasn’t good.
Conan: blackberry and paint thinner.
Conan: brown sugar, not white.
SCP-DFF: with goat cheese it tastes of vanilla.
JDAW: ‟I wish you hadn’t mentioned the paint thinner, because you were right”.