We gathered at 67 Pall Mall with Oscar Quevedo, for the first opening of his Closure Experiment cases of the 2014 Vintage Port from Quevedo.
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Re: 2014 Quevedo
2014 Quevedo - Artificial
Everything the same as the 2014 Quevedo - natural, straight, except:
...drier, more tannic, fruit more restrained.
Everything the same as the 2014 Quevedo - natural, straight, except:
...drier, more tannic, fruit more restrained.
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Re: 2014 Quevedo
Quevedo 2014 Vintage Port from a Closure Experiment case cellared in Fordingbridge. Tasted blind, not knowing which sample relates to which method of closure. The samples are all more or less the same colour, a deep and dark red with small rims. 5 is very closed on the nose.
Sample 5 has an oddly perfumed tone to the fruit. The fruit is more black cherry than blackcurrant and the tannins are very green. This does taste like a very old-fashioned style of long-lived Vintage Port. The green tannins dominate the aftertaste, but in a good way, supporting the black cherry fruit finish. This is my preferred bottle - big Port, full of power, full of fruit and with a long life ahead of it.
Sample 5 was standard bottle, artificial cork.
Sample 5 has an oddly perfumed tone to the fruit. The fruit is more black cherry than blackcurrant and the tannins are very green. This does taste like a very old-fashioned style of long-lived Vintage Port. The green tannins dominate the aftertaste, but in a good way, supporting the black cherry fruit finish. This is my preferred bottle - big Port, full of power, full of fruit and with a long life ahead of it.
Sample 5 was standard bottle, artificial cork.
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