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1977s were tasted by a strict subset of the obvious folks, on Tuesday 11^th June 2024, at the Boot & Flogger, as arranged by Martin Coulson.

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• Review of the evening as a whole;
• Tasting notes:
  • 1977 Warre;
  • 1977 Dow;
  • 1977 Graham;
  • 1977 Gould Campbell;
  • 1977 Smith Woodhouse;
  • 1977 Berry’s Own Selection ≈ Quarles Harris;
  • 1977 Offley Boa Vista;
  • 1977 Ferreira;
  • 1977 Sandeman;
  • 1977 Fonseca Panascal;
  • 1977 Fonseca;
  • 1977 Taylor;
  • 1977 Croft;
  • 1977 Delaforce;
  • 1977 Morgan;
  • 1977 Ramos Pinto;
  • 1977 Niepoort;
  • 1977 Royal Oporto;
  • 1977 Morano;
  • 1977 Ducal;
• Placemats;
• Food order;
• Planning and arrangements.

The first of three bottles purchased from WineOwners in November 2018.
Decanted at 1800 on evening before the tasting. Fours hours in decanter and then back into the bottle and Vac-U-Vined.
QA sample OK and not corked.

A dark garnet still. Pale rim. Nice dark cherry fruit. Lovely finish. Comfortably WOTN.

Good colour. Nose fairly open. Well developed palate, but with plenty of fruit still. My WOTN with 3pts.

T77, red, 40% opaque. Big; best; great structure; sweetness and grip. My highest scoring Port with 2½ points; six people, not wrongly, gave it 3.

60% opacity, Mature red. Fruit power on the nose.
Full rich mouthfeel, great structure and balance. Chewy blackberries.
My WOTN with 3 points.

Nose: Mute. A touch of red fruit.
Palette: anything but mute! Plenty of red fruits to start - redcurrants and mascharino cherries. Luxurious on the mid palate. Cola?! Lovely finish with spice kicking in late on. Such a long finish. I think I like this, maybe quite a lot... Excellent and my WOTN.

1977 Taylor. Mature rose red colour, 30% opaque. Restrained nose of sweet rose hip, nicely savoury. Sweet but a little simple on impact - but a wine which blossoms beautifally. Red liquorice and aniseed, spicy and nicely balanced. Mature but quite forceful. A little warmth on the aftertaste, spearmint and aniseed. A wonderful mature and beautifully balanced Port. Fabulous, so much change and development as you drink it! 94/100. Opened and decanted at 18.00, returned to the bottle at 22.00 and Vacu-Vined until poured and tasted at 16.35.