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1975s were tasted on Monday 21^st July 2025, at the Boot & Flogger, as arranged by Martin Coulson.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• Tasting notes:
  • 1975 Quinta do Noval;
  • 1975 Quinta do Noval Nacional;
  • 1975 Ramos Pinto;
  • 1975 Taylor;
  • 1975 Taylor magnum;
  • 1975 Delaforce;
  • 1975 Fonseca;
  • 1975 Fonseca magnum;
  • 1975 Croft;
  • 1975 Croft magnum;
  • 1975 Warre;
  • 1975 Dow;
  • 1975 Dow magnum;
  • 1975 Cockburn;
  • 1975 Butler Nephew;
  • 1975 Rebello Valente;
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

Well done and thank you for sorting out an excellent evening, Martin!

In summary, I feel that the 1975s comprise some wines which are, indeed, quite solid (see WOTN analysis), but in general these wines seem to lack the “zip” I’m looking for which I find in other vintages in the around 50 yo range (the “zip” being something which I, unfortunately, fail to be able to articulate).

After the tasting, I had a bottle of G85 (as the venue had ran apparently out of F85(!)) which also seemed to fall into the lack-of-zip category. Maybe I have Covid or something similar?!

Thankyou everyone for turning out for a most enjoyable evening with great friends and Port .....

Well that’s fairly decisive. Taylor or Fonseca 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, which probably hasn’t happened before save at a Taylor v Fonseca tasting…