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- Review of the evening as a whole;
- 1970 Dow;
- 1970 Fonseca;
- 1970 Graham;
- 1970 Sandeman;
- 1970 Taylor;
- 1970 Warre;
- 1970 Cockburn;
- 1970 Offley Boa Vista;
- 1970 Royal Oporto;
- 1970 Royal Oporto Carvalhas;
- Placemats;
- Planning and organisation.
Should we add to this that you should have the patience to wait for a once-in-a-half-Century Vintage to get to 40 years old, too? .AHB wrote:It's a line-up of ports like this that really brings home what a wonderful drink Port can be if only you have the patience (or the money) to drink 40 year old vintage port. Some of them were superb, and even the weakest showing of the Royal Oporto was not undrinkable.
I think that's a bit harsh! I think the '60s, '63s, '66s and '70s are all drinking really well at the moment. Some of these vintages are already fading (Borges, Royal Oporto) and the '63s are probably fading more generally out of the four - but would you really turn one down?JacobH wrote:Should we add to this that you should have the patience to wait for a once-in-a-half-Century Vintage to get to 40 years old, too? .AHB wrote:It's a line-up of ports like this that really brings home what a wonderful drink Port can be if only you have the patience (or the money) to drink 40 year old vintage port. Some of them were superb, and even the weakest showing of the Royal Oporto was not undrinkable.
I love the colours showing in this shot. Wish I could have been there to taste them!jdaw1 wrote:Reverse angle:
Sorry, it wasn’t supposed to be harsh! The semi-serious point I was trying to make, though, is that ’70 is clearly one of the top vintages of the last 50 years and so the quality of the wine, all the way down to the ‟lesser” or ‟weaker” houses is going to be very high. I don’t think the 1985 Royal Oporto will be up to much in another 15 years, especially compared to the 1970. But then I am more than happy to be proven wrongAHB wrote:I think that's a bit harsh! I think the '60s, '63s, '66s and '70s are all drinking really well at the moment. Some of these vintages are already fading (Borges, Royal Oporto) and the '63s are probably fading more generally out of the four - but would you really turn one down?
Perhaps a reference to the "green foil"?jdaw1 wrote:Why did I scrawl, at the end of my tasting notes, ‟Barchester Chronicles”? What conversation led to that? Now forgotten, certainly by me, probably by all.