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1970 Borges & IrmÃ£o: Dominic Symington said that this would have come from Quinta do Junco, which is now owned by Taylor-Fladgate. To taste good length, with melon, and light. ‟But great length”.

1970 Royal Oporto: Nose ‟Yuck then fading away”. Taste ‟At best, tolerable. Actually, not that good”.

1970 Robertson’s Rebello Valente: palest of the flight (being Br, K, RV, and RO). Nosing of lovely soft fruit, perhaps mint and apples. The apple returns in the taste, which is light, pleasant, and refreshing. The perfect breakfast port to serve with fruit salad. Wine of the flight.

1970 Kopke: an edge darker than the other â™¦s (they being Barros, Kopke, Robertson’s Rebello Valente and Royal Oporto). Nosing of dark fruits. Taste initially too acidic, then soft and pleasant fading slowly to sweetness. Second-placed in this flight.

1970 Barros: nose ‟Light, nothing wrong, then passionfruit”. To taste ‟very acidic, and rougher than the Kopke”.

González Byass 1970: embarrassingly mis-spelt on the placemats as ‟Gonzáles Byass” because I had copy-pasted Axel’s typing without checking. This error is regretted. Meanwhile my tasting notes compare this to the preceding port (Dalva) with just ‟Also mint and acid”.

1970 Dalva : said by Dominic Symington to be the same wine as da Silva 1970 . But the nose was much lighter than the dS. The taste initially promised dark fruit, but then drowned in acid, thus rather resembling the González Byass 1970 . I propose renaming this in the TN index to ‟Dalva, aka Preside...

1970 da Silva: said by Dominic Symington to be the same wine as Dalva. Nosing of lovely dark fruit, and, perhaps, lychee. But to taste very minty unpleasantly so.

I propose renaming this in the TN index to ‟Dalva, aka Presidential, aka da Silva”. Thoughts?

1970 Butler Nephew: Palest of the â™£s (being A, BN, dS, Dl, GB). Very faint nose, with some heat. My note on the taste said ‟Odd, clings to the side of the mouth like ice cream”.

1970 J. H. Andresen: Nosing of candy sugar and white chocolate, it gave a lot of heat in the mouth. Good length though, which I described as ‟fine port”. My first ever non-terrible Andresen, and my wine of the â™£ flight (being A, BN, dS, Dl, and GB).

I have neither objection to nor massive enthusiasm for a NYT wine writer. I would be willing to fund my share.

Food: Lebanese works for me. Or a shopping list can be constructed and I will buy it that day.

There will be no partial bottles to take home. All will be drunk.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=21920#p21920]Here[/url] DRT wrote:until two weeks ago, had been undisturbed in the Symmington cellar's in VNG since bottling

González Byass, not Gonzáles Byass.

People are asked to be polite by not noticing the spelling error in the placemats. (They’ve been printed too late to repair.)

My thought about the ’94 is that the original purpose of this tasting was to drink my USA-located port.

1966?

jdaw1 wrote:I concur with any sensible non-ascetic decisions.

Which is a yes.

RonnieRoots wrote:I think I would either use the shipper's tiers as mentioned in Mayson's book, or use Michael Broadbent's scores.
But this division is very interesting as well.

OK, I need to research ‟shipper's tiers”. But scores (from multiple sources) were used to separate into sessions afternoon or evening.

SushiNorth wanted to know what would happen to this port. It was left in the decanter, at room temperature, until today more than three weeks later. The TCA evaporated hurray. Then buy a bit more than a pound of very lean minced beef. For a few minutes sear in a frying pan, stirring. Meanwhile, in a...

SushiNorth wrote:Pending we have:
8. ajrh (Anthony)

Anthony confirmed by phone. He is still trying to pluck up the courage to reply in person on this bulletin board.

Appealing to Jay for a stay of execution!

I could arrive early in Brooklyn to help with logistics.

JacobH wrote:Date of shipper's foundation.

Presumably after a merger the date of foundation would be deemed to be that of the alphabetically earlier?

mosesbotbol wrote:Oh no... Is this a sinking ship?

G-man is using his super-G-powers to save the day.

With two sessions of 17 or 18 bottles, some sub-division into flights was needed. Even if only a modest proportion comes from the flagship vineyard, it isn’t such a bad flighting criterion.

Rephrased, how would you have have split into flights?

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