Tasted at this event on 19th July 2011.
My brief tasting note reads:
"Vinegar nose - oranges - dry finish"
This wine wasn't good and, if my memory serves me well, was not liked by the assembled masses.
I have a sample in the fridge which I will taste soon and report back on.
1961 Taylor Vargellas
1961 Taylor Quinta de Vargellas
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
Re: 1961 Taylor Quinta de Vargellas
The sample:
Lots of spirit on the nose - but a hint of prunes beneath. Quite volatile in the mouth - malt vinegar and lots of heat. The finish is the best of a bad bunch with this wine, lots of mint and quite long and warming but no fruit and a sickly sweetness on the end.
Strange stuff.
Lots of spirit on the nose - but a hint of prunes beneath. Quite volatile in the mouth - malt vinegar and lots of heat. The finish is the best of a bad bunch with this wine, lots of mint and quite long and warming but no fruit and a sickly sweetness on the end.
Strange stuff.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn