1985 Churchill

[jdaw1]

SushiNorth, Mrs SushiNorth, and jdaw1 met for port at TCP on Wed 16 Nov 2011, partly so that SushiNorth could see the famous TCP.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole
• 1977 Quarles Harris;
• 1985 Churchill;
• Placemats.

[jdaw1]

Ch85: 80% opaque, red-red-purple. Young colour. Nose sweet, red cherry, and something high-toned. The taste evolved through the evening. Initially closed. later better balanced, a little roughness mid-palate, plum, and a nice bigness that countered its imperfectly smoothed corners. As ever, very satisfactory port. Would have been better with six hours decant time.

‘C’ on the placemats, for Churchill.

[SushiNorth]

It looks like black cherry juice, with the smell of the bottle lingering on its varnishy nose; a little licorice would develop later. The varnish overpowers the dark cherry flavor, it's tannic and tastes of cask/wood. I also get a little bit of spearmint mid palate, and some evergreen as I breathe out. It improved over the course of the evening. 88/90.