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The above tasting note is of a madeira not a port. Two sets of clues: one in the name of the shipper... Shortridge Lawton were a fairly obscure Madeira shipper founded 1757 but, for me, really flowering in the Victorian and Edwardian era. They joined the MWC early. Fun fact: I understand they were t...

90% opaque. Full and sweet but with reassuringly dry tannins on the finish that assure long life. The balance was excellent. Tasted 5 June 2019.

85% opaque. A touch of spirit but bags of fruit. Lovely fine-grained tannins. Tasted 5 June 2019.

85% opaque. Good fruit but felt a touch spirity to me by comparison with its more luscious peers. Tasted 5 June 2019.

100% opaque. Astonishing nose of passion fruit, with some fruit cake in support. Rich full, long-finishing 'serious port'. My WOTN. Tasted 5 June 2019.

An inky black, 95% opaque, glass-stainer. Really very fine this year. Powerful fruit and chocolatey tannins. Magnificent port. Tasted 5 June 2019.

Crimson, perhaps 80% opaque. A bit hotter on the palate than its peers, tasted alongside. Very pleasant fruit but not a heavyweight. Tasted 5 June 2019.

Glass-staining 90% opaque liquid with a slightly volatile and liquorice-scented nose. A bit of heat on the mid-palate but otherwise smooth rich sweet fruit. Long finish. Very nice port indeed. A slight doubt in my mind about whether it has the depth for the very long term, but that is an observation...

Sincere regrets proffered - a very busy week for me and the work nowhere near half done.

A recent auction acquisition with a mid shoulder fill and a slightly raised cork, so condemned to early opening. Pleasingly little loose sediment on decanting (for 1 hr before starting to drink). A gorgeous garnet colour, 30% opaque. Rich fruit nose, principally poached strawberries. More sweetened ...

[Excluding, as not VP, the half bottle of Graham Malvedos 2001 (luscious) consumed with a friend on Tuesday 30 July] the last was the bottle of Warre 1977 consumed with two friends on Friday 26 July (pale now, and, in bottle size, I think towards the end of its drinking window, but a lovely fragrant...

@forest26 - on the list
@nac - first reserve, but statistically extremely likely to be promoted idc - so I would be most grateful if you could diarise and reserve a bottle of CkC for us
@NickA - thanks, first post updated to FG

23 hours on: no change to colour or opacity. Even more herbaceous on the nose, with more poached plum and pepper. The explosion of fruit is still there early on in the palate but it has darkened, there's loganberry, blackberry, and some liquorice (of the tooth-destroying 'Bassetti stick' variety, ra...

Light brown clear shade. On the palate a light, sweet, pleasant, but not exceptional example of the genre, a bit monochromatic in its exalted company. Also, suffered from being served with out any accompanying food, I feel.

Bottled late 1970s (JNV selo). Clear golden brown with an orange rim. VA mercifully not too high. On the nose, extremely nutty. Long and full on the palate, with a minutes-long finish. An great example of what Tinta Negra Mole can produce in the right hands and with the right level of ageing- I have...

Fine legs. Youngish with prominent dark fruits. A touch short on the finish, but nevertheless real port. Tasted blind, guessed to be Niepoort 1991. [In fact, likely to be Niepoort Secundum 2001.] Tasted 21/05/19

1980s bottling. 70% opaque, but very bright in the glass. Note of varnish on the nose, but some impressive length of fruit on the palate, albeit overall at the accessible end of things. Tasted blind, my guess that this was Graham from a minor vintage like 1975, so a pretty good showing. Tasted 21/05...

80% opaque with a slight haze. Young, full throated, spirity port with lots of liquorice on the mid-palate. Warm, longish finish. Tasted blind, and fooled by the spirity quality, I thought this might be a Taylor VP. So, pretty good stuff if you can get it. 21/05/19.

40% opaque. Murky, browning liquid. Slightly spirity nose without fruit. Better on the palate, finer and more resolved. But no pleasure to drink. Not really 'wrong', just past its best. Blind, guessed (by me) to be a 1975. Tasted 21/05/19.

I must confess I have no tasting note on this other than 'very pleasant'. But I must plead that this was the third 'bonus bottle' of a night among a fairly small group. I do remember that the donor was a good sport on being presented with a blind tasting challenge. Tasted 21/05/19.

Noted towards the end of an evening, this was a rather lovely tawny of the richer variety. It reminded me again of the qualitative step-up between 20 and 30 yr old tawny ports. Tasted 21/05/19.

A remarkable full rich amber colour. Wonderful length and depth. Try it if you can! Tasted blind, I was not wholly sure what it was (Maury Mas Amiel from the 1970s or 1980s? Very old fine Moscatel de Setubal?). But, I was sure that it was extremely good. The #2 WOTN.

Shipped by Quarles Harris. Decanted 1230, consumed 1830-2230. Glorious garnet colour. Fine legs. On the front palate a hint of poached plums in a spiced syrup (hint of star anise?). And with a rather lovely peppery note on the finish. Very good port. #1 WOTN. Tasted 21/05/19

My first TPF visit; I hope for many more. I am grateful for being made welcome by all present: a friendly crowd. We drank some interesting, and some admirable, port. WOTN (restricted to those tasted blind) was AJM's BBR/QH 1977; with AHB's 1968 Noval Colheita second and the 1957 D'Oliveira's Meio Do...

A number of us gathered at the B&F for to taste (mostly) blind (mostly) ports. Review of the evening as a whole These blind: 2007 Marks & Spencer (JDAW) Fonseca Bin 27 (1980s bottling) (JDAW) 1968 Noval Colheita (AHB) Graham's Crusted (bottled 1985) (AHB) 1977 Quarles Harris (BBR version) (AJM) 2001...