2003 Messias Cachao

[jdaw1]

On Wednesday 23rd October 2019 we held a tasting of Messias Quinta do Cachão, at the B&F, as arranged by Tony.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• • 1960 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1963 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1965 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1966 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1967 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1970 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1975 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1976 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1977 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1979 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1980 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1982 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1983 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1984 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1985 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1989 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 1997 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 2003 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
  • 2009 Messias Quinta do Cachão;
• The placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

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40% opacity, dull red. Not much on the nose. Lively red fruit, tannins and dryness.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Ex-cellars bottle from Quinta do Cachão, courtesy of Miguel Perreira at a tasting organised by Tony Carter of Vintage Wine & Port.

Deep red colour, 90% opaque at the centre. Subdued nose, a swirl releases the typical sweet redcurrant fruit, or perhaps it is raspberry. Raspberry fruit entry with a delicious cedar tannin undertone. Rich fruit on the palate, sour cherries on the aftertaste, fragrant and with great layers and a slight stickiness at the end. A very fine Port, drinking nicely now. 90/100. Tasted 23-Oct-19. Decanted 10 hours.