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Last Saturday, when getting out of the train in Regua I received a call from Christian Seely and he asked wether I intend to participate in a "small tasting of Noval and Nacionals" that he prepaired. Having been together with some brits last time at Noval I was aware of the typical understatement of the UK-based Port lovers, but what I encountered at Noval was something that really blew my mind.

Since my time is quite limited right now, please get an image from Jamie:

http://www.wineanorak.com/blog/labels/Douro.html

I will continue to write more about this soon.

Axel

Very cool. I read about it on Jamie's blog and it looks like a spectacular tasting. Please do post notes once you have the time.

Ronnie, I definitely will and I will not complain, but I did not even put in notes for the last tasting in June and the next tasting is Warre on Friday. To my very surprise the following wines were there:

Silval: 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007
Noval: 83, 87, 94, 97, 2000, 2003, 2007
Nacional: 63, 70, 75, 82, 83, 87, 94, 97, 2000, 2003

What more can you ask for.

Axel

What a fantastic tasting. I've not tried many Nacionals from the "dark era" and will be really interested to hear what you thought of them.

Hi Axel,

Impressive tasting! How was the 1975 Nacional?*
I'm about to buy some but did not come accross a TN...

rgrds,
Dries


*answer received. Thanks!