1975 Quinta do Noval Porto Late Bottled Vintage

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  4/14/2008 - erikwiechers wrote: 89 Points

  The smell is awesome, lots of red fruit like strawberries and raspberries. But also marzipan, its sweet and heavy.
  
  According to Roy Hersh i have to decant it between 4-6 hours. But i wanted to taste the first glass without decanting at all so i poured myself 1 glass to taste the difference later.
  Not much tannines left in this bottle. It tickles the palate and stings a little, does not look very promising at this point. Not a long aftertaste aswell. At this point i cant taste anything specific like my other TN's.
  
  Second glass after 5 hours of decanting.
  Wow, this has definately improved alot ! Its very sweet and soft, silky and velvet. I can very much taste the sugar almost like its liquid caramel. You have to love this or hate this. I love it. But....i cant be any more specific though. In my other tastings i always could taste something specific like fruit, oak or chocolate but now its the caramellish taste that does it.
  All with all i rate this 89 points. Good but not excellent.

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