1897 Stoker Port
1897 Stoker Port
Found this at an odd lot for unknown shippers.
Searching on google, this apparently is an Irish shipper that no longer exists.
A deep brooding red that seems to offer no reflection in it's depths. It appears undying for a wine of it's age.
Notes of drawn blood, with a dusty mouthfeel like something fell out of the back of a Szekley Van. The Hellish red fruit Sings with a glorious rich thick irony profile giving to a curious MinerAl profile.
100 pts.
Searching on google, this apparently is an Irish shipper that no longer exists.
A deep brooding red that seems to offer no reflection in it's depths. It appears undying for a wine of it's age.
Notes of drawn blood, with a dusty mouthfeel like something fell out of the back of a Szekley Van. The Hellish red fruit Sings with a glorious rich thick irony profile giving to a curious MinerAl profile.
100 pts.
Disclosure: Distributor of Quevedo wines and Quinta do Gomariz
Re: 1897 Stoker Port
Sounds a bit dead to me.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
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Re: 1897 Stoker Port
I disagree. It sounds as though this will just live on forever unless someone deliberately destroys it.DRT wrote:Sounds a bit dead to me.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
Re: 1897 Stoker Port
Perhaps Irish shippers are the silver bullet the Port trade need?AHB wrote:I disagree. It sounds as though this will just live on forever unless someone deliberately destroys it.DRT wrote:Sounds a bit dead to me.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
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- Graham’s 1948
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Re: 1897 Stoker Port
I'd stake my life on it.DRT wrote:Perhaps Irish shippers are the silver bullet the Port trade need?AHB wrote:I disagree. It sounds as though this will just live on forever unless someone deliberately destroys it.DRT wrote:Sounds a bit dead to me.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
Re: 1897 Stoker Port
I think it would be a grave error to carry this on much longer.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
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- Location: Berkshire, UK
Re: 1897 Stoker Port
You're right. I'm coughin' too much to type any more.DRT wrote:I think it would be a grave error to carry this on much longer.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Re: 1897 Stoker Port
AJS states that Irish claret was very highly regarded in the 19th Century, before regulation and fakery sucked the life out of the domestic-bottling industry...DRT wrote:Perhaps Irish shippers are the silver bullet the Port trade need?AHB wrote:I disagree. It sounds as though this will just live on forever unless someone deliberately destroys it.DRT wrote:Sounds a bit dead to me.
Re: 1897 Stoker Port
OK - let's call it a day before the light comes up.AHB wrote:You're right. I'm coughin' too much to type any more.DRT wrote:I think it would be a grave error to carry this on much longer.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
- Alex Bridgeman
- Graham’s 1948
- Posts: 14906
- Joined: 13:41 Mon 25 Jun 2007
- Location: Berkshire, UK
Re: 1897 Stoker Port
Perhaps time for a musical interlude? Can I suggest Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell?
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
- JacobH
- Quinta do Vesuvio 1994
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Re: 1897 Stoker Port
Or Rachmaninov’s Isle of the Dead, a piece a mere 10 years younger than this Port...AHB wrote:Perhaps time for a musical interlude? Can I suggest Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell?