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The 2017s were tasted on Tuesday 25th June 2019, at The Boot & Flogger.

Many thanks to the many shippers who sent bottles, and to Alex for organising.

Links:

• Review of the event as a whole;
• The 2017s:
  • Bulas 2017;
  • Burmester 2017;
  • Churchill 2017;
  • Churchill Quinta da Gricha 2017;
  • Cockburn 2017;
  • Quinta do Crasto 2017;
  • Croft 2017;
  • Croft Quinta da Roêda Sērikos 2017;
  • Dalva 2017;
  • Dow 2017;
  • Fonseca 2017;
  • Graham 2017;
  • Graham The Stone Terraces 2017;
  • Quinta do Javali 2017;
  • Kopke 2017;
  • Quinta das Lamelas 2017;
  • Martha 2017;
  • Maynard 2017;
  • Maynard Organic 2017;
  • Niepoort 2017;
  • Quinta do Noval 2017;
  • Quinta do Noval Nacional 2017;
  • Pintas 2017;
  • Poças 2017;
  • Portal 2017;
  • Portal Muros 2017;
  • Quevedo 2017;
  • Ramos Pinto 2017;
  • Ramos Pinto Quinta de Ervamoira 2017;
  • Quinta da Romaneira 2017;
  • La Rosa 2017;
  • Quinta da Sequeira 2017;
  • Skeffington 2017;
  • Taylor 2017;
  • Taylor Vargellas Vinha Velha 2017;
  • Quinta do Vale Meão 2017;
  • Quinta do Vallado 2017;
  • Quinta do Vallado Adelaide 2017;
  • Quinta do Vesuvio 2017;
  • Capela da Quinta do Vesuvio 2017;
  • Vieira de Sousa 2017;
  • Warre 2017;
• Sticky labels and TN pages (which caused some additions to the list of Port House abbreviations).
• Planing and arrangements.

A gentle purple colour, one of the few wines to be purple in tone. Closed on the nose, revealing a little bruised fruit. Gentle tannins on the palate give a dry core to the fruit at first, but suddenly explode within the fruit to grab attention and make sure they aren’t missed. Parma violets and a lovely green tannic finish. An odd showing, very different from the other wines tasted alongside this one. A Port I’d like to try again. 85-87/100.

Pç17: soft palate, some Tayloresque grit. Light weight, with pineapple fruit. Not a giant for the ages, instead fine drinking for now.

Deep purple with ripe red cherry, blackberry and tobacco. Big but smooth tannins and with very nicely concentrated fruit and a good long finish with very intresting mid palate. I'd like to try this in the future. 18/20

D6: A dense, reserved, slight spicy fruity nose. Slight prickle of VA. A bright floral deliciousness to the sweetly red fruited palate. Balanced with good freshness through its good acidic cut. Another where spitting was not the preferred option!

I was (extremely) fortunate to be offered this as part of a tasting at Pocas in their home base. An impressive wine with smooth dark fruits in the nose. The palate shows overwhelming fruit; black cherries and plum overlaid with strawberries and redcurrants with superb spice layers. There's a wonderful drying tannic structure underlying and holding it all together, wonderful stuff!