1960 Quinta do Noval

[jdaw1]

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• Placemats;
• 1960 Cockburn;
• 1960 Sandeman;
• 1960 Ferreira;
• 1960 Delaforce;
• 1960 Croft;
• 1960 Fonseca;
• 1960 Taylor;
• 1960 Quinta do Noval;
• 1960 Quinta do Noval Nacional;
• 1960 Quinta do Rei;
• 1960 Dow;
• 1960 Graham;
• 1960 Warre;
• 1960 Martinez;
• Planning and arrangements.

[jdaw1]

N60: nose is very floral. Taste is high-toned eucalyptus. Sweet, full rich length, medium weight.

For me, second-placed in the WOTN competition.

[Chris Doty]

Chlorine? At the outset, the nose was as if someone dumped 5 gallons of Vermont maple syrup into my swimming pool. Rather curious. Blew off after 30-45 minutes. Bit of cinnamon and nut meg. Not bad, per se, but I found this a little uninspiring. 83pts

[Alex Bridgeman]

Good colour, clear centre. Peaches and white cherries all over the very big nose. Terrific texture; lovely entry but afterta big wave of sweet red fruit the ripe orange acidity charges through. Massive aftertaste, full of mature sweet fruit with a very long finish. Super port. 91/100. My wine of the night.

[DRT]

This was the eighth port of the night and I was obviously getting into my stride with my usual brand of elaborate and overly-detailed tasting notes...

"Lemon - delicious - best so far by a stretch".

[jdaw1]

Lemon - delicious - best so far by a stretch.

Shocking! I do hope that in the original you used em dashes (‟ ”) rather than mere hyphens (‟-”).

[DRT]

Lemon - delicious - best so far by a stretch.

Shocking! I do hope that in the original you used em dashes (‟ ”) rather than mere hyphens (‟-”).

Oops! Sorry. I don't know what the unicode string is for an em dash when writing with a ball point pen.