1970 Warre

Tasting notes for individual Ports, with an index sorted by vintage and alphabetically.
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Tasting notes for individual Ports, with an index sorted by vintage and alphabetically.
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winesecretary
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1970 Warre

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Findlater Mackie & Todd bottling with the infamous plastic capsule, safely removed with only one brief and relatively harmless episode of knife through skin.

2 hr decant.

60% opaque, pale rim.

Early, Parma violets on the nose. Later, restrained nose of mixed currants and the inky structure becomes clearer.

Violets on the palate also, early, evolving through rose hip later to currant jam.

Long delicate finish of... not in a bad way, strepsil: cherry and menthol and orange skin. No tannins left, really.

Delicious port.

There are two ways to taste this port now. One is to sip it, in which case one's face takes on the peculiarly bland expression of George Saintsbury's Doctor friend who said 'THAT won't do her any harm.' The other is to slurp and gargle, in which case the experience, although very pleasurable, is very different. I prefer the former.
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