Community Tasting Notes 17

• jmoore431 Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 16, 2023 - Same bottle showing even better today.

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• StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 98 points

  January 11, 2023 - Taking my goodbyes of an old friend. Again…
  Plopped it in August last year, and it slowly grew, month-by-month. Still very toung.
  
  The sommeliers I served it to (blinded) all concluded a white wine, as the pigmentstion most certainly suggests a very mature white.
  
  Nose: out of this World! Rich, precise, intense, enticing, mellow and all over the place when it comes to aromatics.: figs, unsmoked pipe tabacco, great Madeira, darjeeling TGFOP, earl gray, wet assam tea leaves, wet clay, citrus, autumn (no mushrooms, mainly wet leavs in frosty air), Irn Brw and sunshine on mahogany with a bit of Oloroso nuttiness … and so much more complexity. "Autobahn - Kraftwerk"
  
  In the mouth… Yehowah!
  As Oloroso was the last thing to strike my mind on the nose, it was the first component to greet me on the palate. This is almost perfect, with sweet dried and pungent fruits en masse, tobacco happy lnd, tea leaves potpurri, christmas spice (Swedish version), Irn Brw once again proving itself to be the nerds' nectar, brown sugar, molasses, Marmite (the antipleasure from Vegimite), warm stones with mud, Moscatel de Setubal and richesse to faint, late summer feelings, sweet young love, long, ultra complex, balanced and fantastic…
  
  There's (unfortunately) a tiny harsh and unyielding element here, and I don’t think it's going away. More like a blemish from not rigorously enough removing the wrong grapes from the fermenting vats.
  
  But, what a spectacular wine!
  
  Once again, the VDN shows how important it is to enjoy it over a few months.

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• StefanAkiko wrote: 95 points

  December 30, 2022 - Coming around nicely!
  If you keep it un-plopped, please keep it for at least 25 years. The sweetness is still far too high and there’s still enough umpa-umpa to keep this kid up and running for the longer term.
  
  If you prefer sweeeeeeeet port, then, by all means, plop it open asap. Other than that, patience will favour the young ones among us. Us older geezers need to simply purchase older stuff.
  
  This is too young for older guys.

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• StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 93 points

  September 23, 2022 - Much better than last time.
  A beautiful nutty character on top of a rich mature port experience.
  Can't add much to what's been written by others.

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• StefanAkiko wrote:

  August 28, 2022 - No scoring as of yet. Felt clumsy and overly sweet next to a mindbending 1945 Rivesaltes. Surely, it suffered in this competition.
  
  Will let this rest under cork for a few weeks and see what shows.
  
  Almost no pigment remaining after its 40(!) years in barrel...
  Beautiful aroma of aged VDN.
  Rather sweet, cloying mouth feel. Surprisingly short and non-complex.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1977
• Type Red - Fortified
• Producer Miguels
• Varietal Port Blend
• Designation Colheita - Single Harvest
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Portugal
• Region Douro
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Porto
• UPC Code 5601292162275

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• In Cellars 155 (58%)
• Consumed 113 (42%)

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