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Any Port in a storm
Chris Lipperts
Tasted February 26, 2011 by EducatedDrunk with 416 views
Introduction
So the much delayed and much moved port tasting event finally happened. Thanks to Chris for the venue.
The basic premise was a combined horizontal and vertical of 1970 and 1977, which worked well... unfortunately, the wine I preferred was the most expensive!
Decanted a couple of hours prior to drinking.
Flight 1 (6 notes)
Red - Fortified
1970 Dow Porto Vintage
90 points
Cork was fine, lovely pale colour. Good level of sweetness, fair degree of complexity, nice nutty tones. Pleasant but not a blockbuster.
Red - Fortified
1977 Dow Porto Vintage
92 points
Preferred this to the 1970. Sweet and nutty, smooth and delicious. Very well integrated and drinking nicely.
Red - Fortified
1970 Graham Porto Vintage
89 points
Good colour, nice concentration. Smooth and well integrated now. Again an edge of herbs on the palate - sage, almost. Nice fruit notes to it, too, but the herbs don't work for me. Drinking well now.
Red - Fortified
1977 Graham Porto Vintage
88 points
Good and well made, but has a distinct herbaceous edge - I think this is the house style, the 1970 exhibited it, too. Not as intense as the 1970, either. Not really my thing
Red - Fortified
1970 Taylor (Fladgate) Porto Vintage
95 points
Absolutely fabulous, best of the night. Great dried fruit flavors and raisins. Not overtly alcoholic, beautifully integrated tannins. Cork was a bit of a mess but no apparent ill-effects on the wine, and the wax capsule had gone. Drinking deliciously now. Great.
Red - Fortified
1977 Taylor (Fladgate) Porto Vintage
94 points
Second behind the 1970 Taylors at the tasting. Great length, beautiful flavours of dried fruit and raisin, just a step behind the complexity of the 1970 for me. Great stuff