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Thu 22 March 2012, The Bung Hole, JDAW’s oddments
Posted: 22:03 Wed 21 Mar 2012
by jdaw1
Friends gathered to test some oddments acquired by JDAW. Links:
Re: Thu 22 March 2012, The Bung Hole, JDAW’s oddments
Posted: 22:35 Wed 21 Mar 2012
by jdaw1
As can be seen from the receipts, some of these bottles weren’t very expensive.
Re: Thu 22 March 2012, The Bung Hole, JDAW’s oddments
Posted: 08:22 Fri 23 Mar 2012
by Deleted_User_1
My wine of the night, without doubt, was the Niepoort '94...hope you had a good one...sorry I couldn't stay
Re: Thu 22 March 2012, The Bung Hole, JDAW’s oddments
Posted: 17:38 Mon 26 Mar 2012
by Alex Bridgeman
There were some wines on Thursday that I really hope I don't encounter ever again - most of these tasted of plastic and artificial sweetner and needed to be chilled / drowned in tonic so as to hide the flavour of the port.
However, I was also pleasantly surprised by the Rozes Reserve in its squat and bright pink bottle - that wasn't bad.
But my wine of hte night was the Dow 1965 colheita, the Feist 1967 colheita and the Neipoort 1994 - not what I would have predicted. Colheitas in first and second place for wotn in a mixed colheita / vintage port tasting
Re: Thu 22 March 2012, The Bung Hole, JDAW’s oddments
Posted: 18:25 Mon 26 Mar 2012
by Glenn E.
Welcome to the dark side.
Re: Thu 22 March 2012, The Bung Hole, JDAW’s oddments
Posted: 20:50 Mon 26 Mar 2012
by jdaw1
AHB wrote:There were some wines on Thursday that I really hope I don't encounter ever again - most of these tasted of plastic and artificial sweetner and needed to be chilled / drowned in tonic so as to hide the flavour of the port.
Agreed. An experiment expected to have a low hit rate, and it met expectations.
Re: Thu 22 March 2012, The Bung Hole, JDAW’s oddments
Posted: 21:40 Mon 26 Mar 2012
by jdaw1
Re: Thu 22 March 2012, The Bung Hole, JDAW’s oddments
Posted: 21:40 Mon 26 Mar 2012
by jdaw1
Re: Thu 22 March 2012, The Bung Hole, JDAW’s oddments
Posted: 22:51 Mon 26 Mar 2012
by Alex Bridgeman
jdaw1 wrote:AHB wrote:There were some wines on Thursday that I really hope I don't encounter ever again - most of these tasted of plastic and artificial sweetner and needed to be chilled / drowned in tonic so as to hide the flavour of the port.
Agreed. An experiment expected to have a low hit rate, and it met expectations.
The moral of the tasting was, "Beware Frenchmen bearing gifts of port."
Re: Thu 22 March 2012, The Bung Hole, JDAW’s oddments
Posted: 16:12 Tue 27 Mar 2012
by Alex Bridgeman
I typed up my tasting notes last night and can't believe the number of firsts that I achieved at this offline, other than the obvious:
Obvious
First (and hopefully only) tasting of horrible French white and tawny ports from Santelmo, Cruz and Rozes
Surprising
Oldest Passadouro ports - my oldest before last week was the 1997.
First time trying the Niepoort 1994.
First time trying the Feist 1967 colheita (the only other port from Feist I have ever drunk being the 1937 colheita)
First Dow colheita