1982 Graham LBV Bottled 1988
Stopper cork. Sediment like a claret not a port (the label says 'does not need decanting' but was aimed at a long-ago audience).
Decanting sample. No more than 50% opaque but only 10% orange rim. Mint, red cherry and a hint of bottle stink on the nose. On the palate herbs mainly, not a great deal of fruit, some orange. Warm spicy Seville orange finish, not very long. Surprisingly nice.
+ 24 hrs
The wine is a little darker. The bottle stink has largely gone; the fruit on the nose has largely gone with it, but there a quite pleasant prune note. Working it through the teeth finds more red cherry and prune on the palate. A hint of pepper on the moderate finish but no tannins to speak of. Some way better than yesterday. Really quite decent port of a distinctly, but not improperly, lightweight variety.
+ 48 hrs
Relatively stable. Most details the same save that slightly more typically 'Graham' in that the red cherry on the palate has now been joined by a hint of tinned strawberry. Finish now distinctly of the marmalade variety (Frank Cooper's Vintage Oxford).
Note: While the minimal tannins mean this is, like most '75s are, very much a 'drink up', like them it is not necessarily a 'pop'n'pour'.