2000 Croft

Tasting notes for individual Ports, with an index sorted by vintage and alphabetically.
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DRT
Fonseca 1966
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2000 Croft

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Served blind at this off-line at the Crusting Pipe, London, on 9th March 2010.

The ports: Wines marked "*" were purchase on the night at TCP due to a world record consumption of 1 bottle each in less than 2 hours, which included dinner :roll:
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
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Re: 2000 Croft

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For some unknown reason I failed to take a note of this one.

The guesses:
  • DJP: Taylor 2000 (1 point)
  • RLC: Noval 1970 (0 points)
  • WS1: Warre 1994 (0 points)
  • CSD: Niepoort 1992 (0 points)
  • AHB: knew what it was before tasting it (0 points)
  • DRT: brought this bottle (0 points)
  • MKD: 1994 (0 points)
Group score: 1/12
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
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angeleyes
Quinta do Noval LBV
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Re: 2000 Croft

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DRT wrote:For some unknown reason I failed to take a note of this one.
Likewise. Left all my notes on the table, and can't remember this one!
Mark
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Chris Doty
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Re: 2000 Croft

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This bottle was quite tricky for me to score. Obviously very young and quite closed, it showed decent structure, but it was hard to get a look at the fruit though the acid and tannin. I have really enjoyed Croft VP lately, so I may pick one up as a flyer. 84? (with 89-91 potential?)
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Cruz 1989
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Re: 2000 Croft

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The only bit I remeber that it had a very dark red to black colour and was fairly closed. Also had some chocolate flavours and a longe finish noted. All the ingredients are there. In ~20 years this should develop into a very good Port indeed.
"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough"
Mark Twain
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