Community Tasting Note
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sweetstuff wrote: 92 points
February 27, 2018 - Morgan and York, Ann Arbor, delivered a Serra de Estrela wheel, about 1.6 pounds. Jackie and I are going to have a cheesefest for dinner tonight, including a St. Andre and a Berthault Bourgogne.
10/4/2017 rated 92 points: 1982 Kopke Porto Colheita (Portugal, Douro, Porto). 20 pabv; 500 ml/$76/Dorothy Lane Market, Oakwood (Dayton), OH. Produced, bottled, and shipped by Sogevius Fine WInes S.A., Vila Nova de Gaia. US Importer Wineworth LLC,. Belleville, WA 98005. Also available in halves and full bottles.
Sadly, t-corked. $76/500 ml about $102 per 750 ml basis). Bottled 2009, 27 years later 'matured in wood.' (Decanted today, 2/27/2018 2 pm)--double back into bottle. THe last bottle was quite cloudy, even after port filtration, with about 1/2 ounce 'mud' at bottom. However, this one was a beautiful tawny, with just a few crumbs of crust. Added perhaps a teaspoonful of water to an ounce for Jackie and I in copitas.
A sweet plum, smoke, vanillin, subtle tarry asphalt, and caramel nose with a dryish finish and intense oak, completed with a juicy note and a twist of quinine bitterness. Very juicy and appetizing on the finish, with subtle tannins. 92/100; 2018-2028.
Served with Serra do Estrella Cheese, about 1.5 percent, Morgan and York, about $35/lb. Floral and full of herbosity, sweet cream, and orange flower, served on rice crackers. A wonderful match wiith the port.
A certain amount of healing in John's throat allows this wine to be enjoyed, at about a week open, much better than expected. There are notes of almost syrupy sweet coffee, caramel verging onto milk chocolate, burnt rubber, and a lot less heat than I had a right to expect--close to none at all. Another vividly fruity, smoky, crisply caramel and bacon fat merging into the sweetness, on March 18, 2018. Very, very nice, with beautiful smooth and fluid texture.3,453 views