1994 Graham Porto Vintage

Community Tasting Notes (253) Avg Score: 93.8 points

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  4/28/2024 - CarlSchmidt Likes this wine: 94 Points

  #1 of 11 half bottles I won at auction. Let stand upright 3 days after delivery then tasted without decant. The cork came out in 2 pieces otherwise ok. There remains lot of bright fruit, so I think this could age yet 2-3 decades? There is alcohol on the back palate - not unpleasant but that hint a great port can give. Long finish with subtle classic raisin note. I like it, and 10 more to try over time.

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  4/4/2024 - dcwino wrote: 93 Points

  Another Wine gathering at RJ’s; 4/4/2024-4/7/2024 (Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina): Nice mature nose displaying dry sweet blue and black fruit, blueberry liqueur, black cherry, dry fig, cigar, leather , milk chocolate, baking spices and earth. Very good concentration, nicely layered generous blue and black fruit, warm, soft and round, medium acidity, earthy mineral, and a medium to long ripe blue and black fruit driven finish. This is drinking nicely.

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  2/6/2024 - Carlo Sarto wrote:

  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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  2/5/2024 - prasm Likes this wine: 91 Points

  PnP, from a split, last glass - threw tons of sediment, filtered to new glass. Appearance: Slightly cloudy with fine sediment, light-medium tawny. Nose: Clean, medium+ intensity with stewed red/black fruit, leather, tobacco, and raisins. Palate: Medium-dry, low acid, medium- tannin, medium+ intensity, full body, 20.0% abv leaves a gentle burn with flavors of stewed cherry and plum, brown sugar, and raisin with a medium+ finish.

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  1/11/2024 - Fugu Me Likes this wine:

  From 375ml. This seems to be really coming into its own, but still needed some air to truly shine. Would hold full bottles a while longer.

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