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Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - What a treat! The fruit that went into this wine was harvested a few months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, before being bottled in 1947 and recorked in 1982. Amazingly some of it is still there.
I didn't decant this in fear of it falling apart. The color is remarkably deep, with only a hint of bricking. Whilst the nose has quite a strong aroma of port, there's a hint of candied red fruit as well, along with a musty sawdust note. On the palate the wine is smooth and relatively tannin-free. What tannins there are have dried completely but it still makes for a very quaffable wine, albeit with a pretty short finish. It's hard to believe the age, considering how many dogs I have drunk that have twice the pedigree with half the years on this one.
This was clearly never a complex wine- or if it was that complexity has been lost- but it was well made enough to provide a unique experience- a drinkable 70-year old wine for a reasonable price. Highly recommended if you can find one.

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