Sun 17 May 2015 (NYC): 'Atonal Port' Blind tasting

[SushiNorth]

A lovely time was had last night at Left Bank in NYC as six of us (and a few drop-ins) enjoyed 8-ish Ports. The tasting was held blind, with submissions curated by jdaw1, and there were many surprises and few correct guesses. All brought a bottle, with a few gifts added in.

Warre's 1984 LBV
Barros 1980 VP
Hardy's 1978 "VP" (Australia) -- Dark horse of the evening
Kopke 1974 Colheita
Da Silva 1908 Colheita(?) (submitted as a gift to the tasting by g-man -- THANK YOU! We wish you could have joined us)
Graham 1982 Colheita
Warre's 1986 LBV
Calem 1977 VP (an extra from Dave -- Thanks!)

The wine of the night was the 1908 Da Silva -- universally appreciated but rarely selected as #1, it garnered more points than any other wine present. Graham 82 Colheita was #2, and there was a broad tie for 3rd (and as soon as I get my actual notes from home, I'll update this with the details).

If someone could auto-generate the TN threads for us, it would be appreciated.


(Edit by jdaw1, at request of djewesbury on Sat 15 Aug 2015)
Links:

• Review of the event as a whole;
• 1984 Warre LBV;
• 1986 Warre LBV;
• 1982 Graham colheita;
• 1974 Kopke colheita;
• 1908 da Silva colheita;
• 1977 Cálem;
• 1980 Barros;
• 1978 Hardy Australian Port;
• Placemats (and parameters by which made);
• Planning and arrangements.

[g-man]

the da silva should have been the vp, but I will submit that it reminded me more of a madiera on my notes.

i decanted it at 10:30am est, it was already top shoulder fill, threw a good chunk of sediment.

and there was a g-man's share that took off some more from the fill

the cork was branded da silva

however the vintage was rubbed off in the process of opening bottle.

t-stopper was mine since the cork didn't last.

[djewesbury]

Thank you to everyone who made this happen - a very, very successful tasting which is hopefully the first of many to come. I will post photos and create threads soon!

[jdaw1]

Links:

• Review of the event as a whole;
• 1984 Warre LBV;
• 1986 Warre LBV;
• 1982 Graham colheita;
• 1974 Kopke colheita;
• 1908 da Silva colheita;
• 1977 Cálem;
• 1980 Barros;
• 1978 Hardy Australian Port;
• Placemats (and parameters by which made);
• Planning and arrangements.

If someone could auto-generate the TN threads for us, it would be appreciated.

Process manual rather than automatic, but done anyway.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Umm chaps. Wasn't AJ da Silva running Noval in 1908? Could you have just drunk the Noval 1908 vintage port?

[jdaw1]

Umm chaps. Wasn't AJ da Silva running Noval in 1908? Could you have just drunk the Noval 1908 vintage port?

Sure, but this was a colheita.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Umm chaps. Wasn't AJ da Silva running Noval in 1908? Could you have just drunk the Noval 1908 vintage port?

Sure, but this was a colheita.

How do you know?

[jdaw1]

Umm chaps. Wasn't AJ da Silva running Noval in 1908? Could you have just drunk the Noval 1908 vintage port?

Sure, but this was a colheita.

How do you know?

Because it says so in the title of its TN thread.

[John M]

How were the Ports????

[djewesbury]

Sorry everyone. It's been a busy, not to say tumultuous couple of weeks. I promise to update details soon. We had a lovely time though!

[Alex Bridgeman]

Sorry everyone. It's been a busy, not to say tumultuous couple of weeks. I promise to update details soon. We had a lovely time though!

Has your tumult settled down? We are keen and eager to read about the atonal qualities of your evening.

[djewesbury]

Sorry everyone. It's been a busy, not to say tumultuous couple of weeks. I promise to update details soon. We had a lovely time though!

Has your tumult settled down? We are keen and eager to read about the atonal qualities of your evening.

I just found my TNs from this wonderful event. I shall post them now!