limited experience with old ports, but this has a delicious nose, and is smooth, tasty, no pruniness or signs of fatigue. Mid way through a case I bought by mistake at auction for $30/btl. (I thought I was just logging on...) The corks are all breaking, but the wine is good.
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Decanted about 3 hours. OK, 3rd tier producer, a vintage most didn’t declare. But it actually showed fairly nicely, if not very complex. Candied cherry with some five-spice and citrus zest, just not super long and showing its alcohol a bit too much. Drink up B
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Somewhat disappointing - perhaps only a 4 hour decant didn't help, but I didn't have longer before the dinner at which I served it. Pleasant, yes, but too sweet and goopy for my taste.
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Hindsight being 20-20, 1982 was a year that saw a few producers choosing to declare instead of 1983. Decanted almost 9 hours, what started out as a very sweet VP has slowly changed to a drier profile with lots of leather, no shortage of violets, light tannins still peaking through, and dried cherries on the finish. The palate is showing far more mature than the dark ruby color, this is quite the enjoyable VP. 90 points
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6/30/2022 - redz wrote: 92 Points
limited experience with old ports, but this has a delicious nose, and is smooth, tasty, no pruniness or signs of fatigue. Mid way through a case I bought by mistake at auction for $30/btl. (I thought I was just logging on...) The corks are all breaking, but the wine is good.
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4/16/2019 - DaleW wrote:
Decanted about 3 hours. OK, 3rd tier producer, a vintage most didn’t declare. But it actually showed fairly nicely, if not very complex. Candied cherry with some five-spice and citrus zest, just not super long and showing its alcohol a bit too much. Drink up B
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4/24/2017 - Claw Dee Puss wrote: 88 Points
Somewhat disappointing - perhaps only a 4 hour decant didn't help, but I didn't have longer before the dinner at which I served it.
Pleasant, yes, but too sweet and goopy for my taste.
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1/24/2011 - cofidis2 wrote: 90 Points
Hindsight being 20-20, 1982 was a year that saw a few producers choosing to declare instead of 1983. Decanted almost 9 hours, what started out as a very sweet VP has slowly changed to a drier profile with lots of leather, no shortage of violets, light tannins still peaking through, and dried cherries on the finish. The palate is showing far more mature than the dark ruby color, this is quite the enjoyable VP.
90 points
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