1897 Stoker Port

[g-man]

Found this at an odd lot for unknown shippers.

Searching on google, this apparently is an Irish shipper that no longer exists.

A deep brooding red that seems to offer no reflection in it's depths. It appears undying for a wine of it's age.

Notes of drawn blood, with a dusty mouthfeel like something fell out of the back of a Szekley Van. The Hellish red fruit Sings with a glorious rich thick irony profile giving to a curious MinerAl profile.

100 pts.

[DRT]

Sounds a bit dead to me.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Sounds a bit dead to me.

I disagree. It sounds as though this will just live on forever unless someone deliberately destroys it.

[DRT]

Sounds a bit dead to me.

I disagree. It sounds as though this will just live on forever unless someone deliberately destroys it.

Perhaps Irish shippers are the silver bullet the Port trade need?

[Alex Bridgeman]

Sounds a bit dead to me.

I disagree. It sounds as though this will just live on forever unless someone deliberately destroys it.

Perhaps Irish shippers are the silver bullet the Port trade need?

I'd stake my life on it.

[DRT]

I think it would be a grave error to carry this on much longer.

[Alex Bridgeman]

I think it would be a grave error to carry this on much longer.

You're right. I'm coughin' too much to type any more.

[JacobH]

Sounds a bit dead to me.

I disagree. It sounds as though this will just live on forever unless someone deliberately destroys it.

Perhaps Irish shippers are the silver bullet the Port trade need?

AJS states that Irish claret was very highly regarded in the 19th Century, before regulation and fakery sucked the life out of the domestic-bottling industry...

[DRT]

I think it would be a grave error to carry this on much longer.

You're right. I'm coughin' too much to type any more.

OK - let's call it a day before the light comes up.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Perhaps time for a musical interlude? Can I suggest Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell?

[JacobH]

Perhaps time for a musical interlude? Can I suggest Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell?

Or Rachmaninov’s Isle of the Dead, a piece a mere 10 years younger than this Port...

[Alex Bridgeman]

Going through the tasting note index, I came across this tasting note.

Unless anyone objects seriously, I’m going to move it into the odds and sods thread so it disappears from the next TN index update.