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Anything but Port, this includes all non-Port fortified wines even if they call themselves Port. There is a search facility for this part of the forum.
The annual Christmas event, this instance on Thursday 15th December 2011, as always in The Bell, Wendens Ambo, Essex CB11 4JY, and as always with the theme The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends.
Subdued on the nose. Strong flavours of seaweed and iodine. Long finish. Good madeira, but I struggled to adjust my palate between port and madeira at the end of the evening.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
I didn’t take a note but I remember this being the much better of the 1860 Madeiras (who would have though I could end up writing this following that tasting?); much more expressive in the mouth with a very long finish full of those tropical fruits that characterises Bual. Certainly the easier Madeira to try with the Ports, too.