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Decanted 3 hours Cloudy, largely orange, wine. Nose of tangerine and Dubai chocolate. Palate has a little red fruit, a slight acridity, but some pleasant enough marmalade notes on the finish. I am not sure whether this was ever a very strong port, but if it ever was, on this showing it is not now.

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‘the exemplary Warre balance’ is a lovely phrase, and so true!

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The F85 (mine) was faulty. Otherwise it might have come as high as 9th.

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Well that was absolutely tremendous. Thank you to Alex for organising Martin for printing and to everyone for your welcome to my guest.

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Leaving now eta 1820

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83,85,92 decanted and in good fettle. 85 darkest of the trio

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Bringing as I am 1983, 1985 and 1992, when do we want the younger wines opened? Audouze overnight and double decant on the morning?

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Fonseca it is.

Fonseca procured.

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I have Cockburn, Croft and Fonseca in storage and (given they are at L&W) can pull single bottles of each with a month or so’s notice.

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Green rim, red centre.

Really attractive fruity varnish nose.

Palate is really rather attractively balanced. Big fruity raisins, a rather nice lifted rosemary note.

Quite impressive.

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Mahogany colour. Olive rim.

Nose of varnish

Palate is rich sweet nutty stuff

Nice glacé fruit quality

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Cabral 40 YO bottled ? 1961 ?

Olive rim, bronze rest of it.

Nose has poached quince.

On the palate some interesting fruits esters, no fig or raisin here.

Lovely mouth feel.

Elderly but both interesting and very attractive.

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A dusky light red.

Still has Taylor heat! Nose of Turkish delight.

Palate has coffee and orange and toffee.

Warming marmalade finish. Not overly long.

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It will still be fine in 2035, although I question whether it will be a more interesting port than it is now (noting in saying this that I like ports that have both fruit and power. YMMV.). But I would not leave it to 2045 save as a curiosity.

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Pop and decant and pour. Still 92% opaque with a garnet rim. Nose full of blue fruit with just a prickle of white pepper Big lush rich palate. Darker end of the spectrum - blackberry pie and prunes with a rather attractive tang of good Armagnac. That said, not really any Taylor heat, although there’...

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It is!

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Cidadelhe is a Tinta according to my lazy research so for N

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I am up for this. I also have quite a few of these.

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Please put me on this listed as a reserve as I have none of the wines plus I have a hearing floating that week so I am sorry to say I am a 50% bet to attend.

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ETA 2000

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I’m on for this

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Updated to include shipper. It might not have been in the first five bottles opened that evening.

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A lovely pale pink.

Super, lightweight port. Pretty cranberry scented almond essence stuff. Acidity a bit prominent.

This is ravishing port in the lighter vein. Pop and decant and pour and enjoy.

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Deep purple rim.

Big blowsy blue fruited nose. Big golluping juicy palate. Still somewhere in the primary spectrum. Attractive port. Not in the same league as the 1994, but you don’t need to wait, and drinkable with considerable pleasure.

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Pale rim. Jammy nose. Nose a bit dirty. Palate not right. Increasingly unpleasant finish. Wrong.

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From 90ml 2025 Advent Calendar This is white only in the sense that it is not exactly red. It is a deep, glorious, mahogany. Nose is thick with rancio and orange oil. If something can be described as having a viscous nose this has it. Palate is rich and sweet and full of the finest sultanas, before ...

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At a concert I am afraid…

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Tom K's food choices

Smoked salmon
Pan roasted cod
Lemon tart

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Pop and decant and pour. Still deeply coloured with a ruby rim. Nose still has the blueberries but there’s some plum showing. Palate is super-smooth with lush fruit, a little blueberry at first and a brief flash of redcurrant before the poached plum tones start to move in. Moves seamlessly to the ch...

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@ mcoulson - might you negotiate on our behalf re the NN?

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A bottle not required for the Fonseca vertical so consumed. This tasting note take on night 3 when it is at its most harmonious. A deep inky wine 95% opaque with a reddish-purple rim. Plummy nose, richly and sweetly fruited - a summer fruit coulis on vanilla ice cream. Cassia bark. Very sweet palate...

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If anyone does have the NN, the last bottle I had some 12 years ago was splendid and so I would be up for a group adoption.

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I’m in. I have the 97, 87, and 77 options, but only from the 20th century, alas.

Obviously also 2017 and 2007. Maybe I’ll bring a Niepoort 17 to see how it is getting on.

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I think I have W and that’s about it. I’ll check at the end of the month.

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I am fairly sure that all I have is N but will check at end of the month.

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Alas, strike Darrel from the list, I have double checked and he can't do that evening.

winesecretary · Re: 60 @ 66 - Tuesday 14 April 2026 Yes for self

Yes for self

winesecretary · Re: 66 @ 60 - Tuesday 17 March 2026 Yes for self, and also for Darrel R.

Yes for self, and also for Darrel R.

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Diageo I suspect is going to go on a bit of a spree.

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Ham Hock Terrine
Chicken Supreme, Side of Mixed Salad
Welsh Rarebit

Am checking what Tom wants.

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Nice port with lots of strawberry. Probably has a way to go to peak.

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Nicely balanced, with the very-much-alive fruit matching the tobacco on the nose. Good but not superb today.

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Very dark. Good vigorous dark fruit on palate and nose. Plums and white pepper on the finish. Still in its pomp.

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A deep sticky red. Fabulous strawberry fruit. Very much liked.

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Orange rim. Nose a bit indeterminate. Less exciting fruit than hoped. Not right.

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Lovely deep red. Palate has some sweet red fruit, but again it's a little bit hot, with white pepper and even a hint of chilli. Quite successful.

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Browning rim. Licorice and prune on the palate. Balance is lovely. Faded, very much later, but still finished.

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More successful. Nice fruit, but still a little warm towards the end.

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Pale rim. Anonymous nose. Acceptable fruit but not great.

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Hot nose. Palate is smooth, finish is too hot. Very much inferior to the other 63s today, persistently hot finish. I didn't finish it.

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