November 3, 2022 - Charleston Offlineorama VII; 11/2/2022-11/6/2022 (Various locations): Always fun to see the port tongs appear. Open for 2 or 3 hours, and could have used even more time. Delicious, coats the tongue. Fig, acid. Lovely middle aged port
November 3, 2022 - Charleston VII; 11/2/2022-11/6/2022 (Charleston, SC (various locations)): Very small pour for me because unlike the rest of the wine we were drinking this can give you a pretty nasty hangover and I was working the next morning. Had been opened and decanted since the beginning of dinner so probably like 3 hours and of course it's still super super young. I think if you buy port you should be buying for grandchildren and not even children. It's tasty.
December 17, 2021 - Holy schnikes! A wine this old should not be this alive. Acid is still vey much hanging in there. Holiday fruit pie (vanilla, hints of berry) with dashes of chocolate, earth and caramel. Definitely has time left, but can't imagine it getting any better.
September 10, 2018 - Drank at 67
Light colour with a faint nose. Wonderful mature soft palate. Nice.
December 7, 2013 - not so good of a bottle, very light, high alcohol burn
July 13, 2012 - Ruby-garnet core fading to thin root beer at the rim, nice depth of color. Caramel and horsey nose. The palate shows its alcohol but is not spoilt by it, despite a general lack of material here. This bottle is showing mostly tawny, but not heavy or unpleasantly oxidized, and is really quite fine sipping because of its excellent balance. A much better showing than I was expecting based on this bottle's condition. Base neck, slightly raised cork, slight seepage. Oporto bottled EWR import.
November 13, 2008 - Went to the cellar to open an older port and came across this bottle with no label and unable to see the cork. To my surprise it was a Dow '55 that I did not inventory. I will drink this over the next week or two as a glass a night is all I need. The color is clean and a vibrant dark rose. The wine is not showing a lot of age, instead wonderful flavor and the taste is on the palate after 60 seconds, smooth and I am licking my lips. Oh my, wish I had a couple of more.