1955 Burmester Colheita (bottled 1979)

[Alex Bridgeman]

Bottled 1979. Pale amber colour with a green rim; 20% opaque. Gentle toffee on the nose, with lots of VA suggesting this is a wood aged port. Toffee and coffee on the start of the palate, but in a light and gentle way. Delicate texture and light honey flavours on the palate; a very dry style of port. Big on the aftertaste, which is dry and slightly bitter, before a long finish of slightly dry damsons. Served blind, this was guessed to be a bottle of Niepoort 1977 Garrafeira. 87/100. Pop 'n' pour. Drunk 28 September 2017.

[flash_uk]

20% opacity, amber, tobacco yellow. My note ends there! I guessed The Port Society 1974 Colheita.

[jdaw1]

B55 colheita, noted only as “Orange” and “Very over-tawny”.


Links:

• Review of the event as a whole;
• Cockburn 1967 (JDAW);
• Burmester 1955 colheita bottled 1979 (THRA);
• Graham 1970 (BMHR);
• Croft 1927 (AHB);
• Croft 1955 (Corney & Barrow) (CPR);
• Taylor 1977 (RLC);
• Cockburn 1963 (MPM);
• Vesuvio 1992 (IDJ);
• Organisation thread.