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T42. Nosed — revoltingly bacterial.

Re: Taylor 1878–1948, Mon 13 Oct 2025, at Noble Rot

T48, dark red, 40%. Huge, muscular, big and full, raspberries and red plum, soft, perfect texture. Just top top Port.

T45, dark red, 40% opaque. Dark sweetness, almost molasses. Oleaginous; utterly lovely.

T35, dark red, 35% opaque. Dark red fruit, sweetness, soft, black pepper mid palate, soft. And in perfect balance. Loving it!

T20, red brown, 20% opaque. Very very soft, Cointreau, white pepper spice mid palate, still lovely.

T17, orange, 10% opaque. Thin, bitter, but good length.

T12, orange. 15% opaque. Lovely soft texture, the mid-palate excellent with oleaginous orange. For my taste, too old and faded.

Not at all like my one taste of a good Ck12!

T08, orange, 25%. Bitter; light; not quite together.

T00, red brown, 30% opaque. Early-palate bitterness, still some raspberry, soft texture, light, with a hint of Bakewell tart.

T1896, pale red brown, 20% opaque. Oleaginous, very present mid-palate bitterness, Cointreau orange, light, noticeably weaker at end than the T78.

T1878. Orange, 20% opaque. Palate utterly of crisp orange marmalade, very long, light. Far past prime, but still a joy.

Somebody must post the first TN of this fabulous evening in London, so it might as well be me. Proper Job IPA , from the St Austell Brewery, decanted clean — no filter, no sediment — at 19:55. So after only a couple of minutes air, the colour is pale yellow-orange, about 7% opaque. The palate has sl...

Glenn E. wrote: ↑22:50 Sun 12 Oct 2025I've been to 1 tasting that had 14 bottles that were all over 100 years old, but those were all Madeira.

Was that Saturday 18^th October 2008 at Triomphe, 49 West 44^th Street, New York (TNs, placemats)?

That might be an understatement. The book has mention of many tastings. I do not recall any with ten Vintages more than a century old. Just none. Even Taylor’s great bicentennial tasting discussed in A Celebration of Taylor’s Port (1992), p53 onwards, had none older than a century. And the Cockburn ...

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑09:24 Fri 10 Oct 2025Michael Mee has generously offered to add 1896 to go alongside his 1924.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑09:24 Fri 10 Oct 2025decided to add my bottle of Taylor 1890

Added to the placemats, and TN threads (1878, ’84, ’90, ’96, 1900, ’08, ’12, ’17, ’20, ’24, ’27, ’35, ’42, ’45, ’48).

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

BRPetrie wrote: ↑15:13 Wed 08 Oct 2025If no major objections, I vote we make this a sighted tasting

You are the organiser.

I prefer sighted. With blind my effort goes into what-is-it?. With sighted my effort goes into how-much-do-I-love-this?. I prefer the latter question.

Current draft of the placemats; images in the first post.

Placemats made and offered to Nickolls & Perks. Perhaps you’ll need to print your own.

The Taylor 1985 should be delicious. It’s just over £100 retail, so you should expect something like £50 to £60. Most of the rest are nice enough Ports — if not badly kept — but of little resale value. Likely, not worth the cost of posting. Rather than sell them for small money, have you considering...

Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 Taylor (AHB); 1908 Taylor (CEM); 1912 Taylor (CEM); 1917 Taylor (AHB); 1920 Taylor (AHB); 1924 Taylor (MJRM); 1927 Taylor (TC); 1935 Taylor (CPR); 1942 Taylor (MSC); 1945 Tayl...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port , 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13 th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair , as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame. Links: Review of the event as a whole ; 1878 Taylor (AHB); 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC); 1890 Taylor (AHB); 1896 Taylor (MJRM); 1900 ...

The summary is very fair. But the best advice about doing this is just don’t. Sixty shippers? Easy: four separate events, weeks apart, fifteen shippers at each. Maybe even some shippers appearing twice in even more events. This was always hoped and intended to be a bit of a wild and mad event. I thi...

Some notes on how this was organised. Flight 0, on Thursday 2 nd October 2025, as one bottle of each, and small pours — about 35ml each. Flight 1–4 were on Friday 3 rd October 2025, from lunch until late. There were two bottles of each. The original bottles were given decanter labels Flight 1: ‘blue...

cem wrote: ↑00:28 Mon 06 Oct 2025I'm available on the 18th Nov. Will bring Raby ports D27, F34, T48 and Ck50

This means that we are sighted. People, please reveal.

The draft of the placemats has been updated (+1884, +1878), there being pictures in the first post.

1970 Château Léoville Las Cases , from large-format, brought by Cliff. Great dark colour; nose of violets and dark cherries; palate drier than nose, big and long, intensely dry, and I concluded “Singing”. It sang! Later, it weakened. And with that, I have posted all my TNs from this event. Please, ...

Fd70: red-brown, 40% opaque. I wrote “Before tasting, check life-insurance exclusions.”

RO70: orange, 20% opaque. No!

BN70: red-brown, 30% opaque; very tawny — a nice 10y tawny.

Mg70: red-brown, 30% opaque; burnt caramel, sweet and long.

Kr70: orange brown, 25% opaque; nose of rotten oranges; palate recorded as “hell no”.

Pç70: brown, 60% opaque; weird yuck nose, not tasted.

GB70: dark brown, 80% opaque; oh no. I asked whether corked, but did not record the answer.

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