1994 Graham Porto Vintage
Community Tasting Note
Carlo Sarto wrote:
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - My mother's father sent to each of us surviving grandchildren a bag of shelled English walnuts from the tree in his backyard in the year before he died. Until tonight I wondered why. I had some English walnuts with a glass of this wine, as with previous notes from a 375. Good Stilton is often said to be a great pairing with vintage Oporto But, Stilton changes the taste of Oporto. English walnuts are in perfect harmony with Oporto but do not at all intrude in the taste. I am certain my Grandfather Thomson never tasted vintage Graham Oporto or any Oporto. But he knew how good English walnuts tasted. He taught me a tasting lesson.
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Comment posted by BRR:
2/7/2024 9:00:00 AM - What a cool story and I'm now going to go pair some (probably not English...not sure I could easily find them stateside) walnuts with a good port.
Now, how was the wine? Cheers.
Comment posted by Carlo Sarto:
2/7/2024 4:31:00 PM - Glad you enhoyed the story. Happy to share wine stories of this kind.
The wine? Well it was as good as Gtaham gets in my experience. Well almost. The 1977's which were all 750's had more of the long slow matured taste with even more complexity. Have 1 77 to open and quite a few 94's. The latter will hold their peak far longe than I will be able to enjoy them. The 94's are holding and not still rising. Me too so a great match.
By all means try walnuts with vintage Oprto.