Popped, decanted, and poured.
90% opaque red juice. Cool nose of mint and black cherries. Broad but not fleshy red fruit palate slowly darkening and with marmalade and a hint of prune late. Balance is fabulous, that sweet-but-not-sweet balance so well held. Still a bit warm on the late mid-palate (it's been in the decanter all of fifteen minutes) but the eventual finish is long and cool and chocolatey and spicy.
+23 hours
Nose still cool, but more black fruit than yesterday. Palate has rich consecutive layers of poached black cherries, dark chocolate ganache, and raspberry, until very near the end when the marmalade and prune appear again. Very long, very lovely.
+ 70 hours
Last glass. A touch more rubber on the nose, not in a bad way. The palate still fine and cool and dark and smooth and balanced. The marmalade has disappeared. Still some tannic warmth. It's almost, now, not-wine-but-emotion. It doesn't so much have a 'finish' as simply imperceptibly fading away over about a minute and a half leaving one with a slight sense of melancholy at its now-absence.
Or, is that the prospect of a working week?
This is glorious port, now starting to drink but good for a couple of decades. At peak about 2037 is my guess.