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Please add me to the reserves for this one. I’ll only be 78. I have Cockburn, Croft, Fonseca and M&S.

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This is now a pleasant fully mature minor port. Te frost excitement has not been sustained.

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Empirical evidence suggests that, though posts are fewer, no less port is being drunk.

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Edited to update -

… and probably rightly. It was heading into tertiary by 2230. Let’s see what it is like tonight.

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Pop and decant and pour A deep red rim, but the wine is still impressively 90% opaque Moderate swirling to bring out the nose suggests it needs more time in glass to open out. Some coffee grounds with blackberry ice cream behind. Palate though is absolutely bursting with juicy blueberries and blackc...

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I’d quite like to organise a ‘port that we don’t like’ tasting at some point - sort of ‘bring a bottle of a port that you just don’t get on with - and explain why’. I suspect most of us have a few bottles like that.

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In view of my vow to tidy away this case in the next couple of years I have opened another of these this evening. A little darker than the previous bottle, still 40% opaque (albeit the pour is a generous one). Chocolate and maraschino cherries with a slight overlay of musty naphtha on the nose. Pala...

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I regret that I will be in the countryside, eliminating crusty jugglers.

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A light garnet. Elevated nose. Remarkable length. Lovely cherry bakewell note on the palate, and cracking port, but the magic wasn't quite there, the choirs were not singing hosannas of praise. I couldn't quite decide whether it needed more time in the glass or whether it was just slightly inferior ...

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Yellow rim. Haunting nose, the best tonight. Long, long, long, long finish. Just lovely.

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Wonderful pigeon's blood ruby colour. Thick, treacly, texture and the fruit is wonderful. Nose is sensational, palate is heartbreaking, finish is superlative.

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Miraculously dark. Deep and lovely and complex nose. Palate has fabulous fruit and fabulous length. This was repeatedly described to me in years past as 'ladies port' but this cold - stored bottle was a noble beast.

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Yellowing rim. Nose is proper port. Wine is fine and filigreed but fading. Faded, later.

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Beautifully dark. Superb palate of plummy pruney fruit. Long rich figgy finish. Full of life. Majestic port.

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Nice colour but paling.

A lovely strawberry quality on the palate.

Really distinguished port.

Comfortably ahead of the other 1960s here tonight.

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Cloudy. Hot nose. Palate a bit odd. No.

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Very pale indeed. Port very hot and spirity. Pedestrian at best.

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Very pale rim. losing its colour. Odd nose. Palate not right.

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Yellow rim. A bit acrid at first, but developed beautifully in glass before then drooping like a superannuated poppy.

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Fabulous garnet colour, deep as almost anything here tonight. Lovely sweet red fruited palate. Long, long finish. Excellent.

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This was a lovely fading shade of garnet. Licorice on the nose, and a nice fruity palate, but not a port to keep longer.

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Yellow rim. Big fruity nose. A classy number.

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Paler end of the spectrum. Quite pretty wine but overshadowed by this company. Would happily have drunk this this on its own on my own - but it does need to be drunk up now as it is perhaps 15 years past the end of its drinking window.

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Yellowing rim. Lovely smokey port with some loganberries. But not as good as last week's magnum.

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Colour deep as anything. Big fruity nose. Palate big but a bit lighter on the finish than I might have hoped. Had a slight banana note that was not really my thing. Under-decanted; I think 24 hours would have helped it show better.

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Rich full wine with decent fruit but clearly not of recent vintage. Full of life.

Guessed to be Fonseca 1945.

Why I didn't get it as Taylor 1948, given that this was the third time I had drunk it in a week, I do not know.

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A bit cloudy but dark. Young and fruity. Mouth full of fruit. A bit hot. If you had nothing else, you would drink it.

Guessed to be an 'off' bottle of Vesuvio 1994 - but the heat should have told me it was Taylor.

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I recall a discussion with Will about Newfoundland port…

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If someone more technologically literate would kindly create a review thread I will post my disjointed comments.

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What an evening.

I hope that I will one day be present at another tasting where Dow 1927 comes a distant third.

Edited to add - I’ve just realised it came fourth! Not even in the medal positions, T48 scooping Gold and Bronze!

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Thanks for posting this - let’s see if the Londoners agree on 13 January…

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2 hour decant.

Reddish centre.

A prickle of heat, with some remnants of fruit.

Shortish finish.

Beyond perfect drinking window.

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1 hour decant.

Orange rim.

Nose a bit dirty.

Palate has some quite grumpy marmalade fruit.

Disappointing, and possibly wrong.

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Decanted 2 hours

Orange rim, brown with glints of red.

Big brash palate of orange, prune and chocolate.

Finish of prune, heat and chocolate, no fruit to speak of.

Not a wonderful T48, but nevertheless exciting drinking. Full of (a sort of) life.

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Yellow rim, orange middle.

Smoke and orange on nose

Palate fully orange fruit.

Not really still port, but pleasant marmalade sugar water.

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You wait decades for a 1935 Taylor to come along and then two come along at once… 1 hour decant. Still red in the centre, pale rim. Indeterminate nose but much swirling delivers rose hip syrup and cranberry. Palate richly fruited with some rather lovely confit fig notes. Some warmth but avoids the T...

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1 hour decant.

Pale rim, orangey-red centre.

Smoky marmalade nose.

Palate is elegant stuff, but tending towards the Frank Cooper’s.

Long, long, finish. Warming stuff.

Still, just about, port. I do not mean to be critical - this is a lovely drink.

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From magnum. 24 hour decant.

Good clear garnet. Paling rim but a very healthy colour.

Nose is a bit indeterminate.

Palate is really lovely - strawberry and cream tart.

Splendid port.

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From magnum. 24 hour decant. Yellow rim. Nose a bit indeterminate. Some VA. Palate feels a bit stripped, but there's some strawberry candy there is you work it round the mouth. The first drinkable Dow 1977 I have had for some time, after a series of badly affected bottles. but in truth difficult to ...

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From tappit hen. 24 hour decant.

Dark for a Warre 1977. Sweet entry but slightly dilute and spirity, almost harsh, palate.

This was much, much, better yesterday, when it was full of strawberry and cranberry joyousness and contender for WOTN.

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From magnum. 24 hour decant

Light red - perhaps 30% opaque.

Some heat on the nose obscuring the fruit.

Sweet entry with some chocolate but then cranberries appear in the midpalate and strongly at the finish.

Good port, but a little spirity overall for my taste.

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From magnum. 24 hour decant. Good rich garnet, rim only slightly russet. Powerful but complex nose, revealing something different with each sniff. Woodsmoke, prune and redcurrant with a bit of a gaminess to it. Big beautiful palate of licorce and redcurrant. Long, long finish, at least a minute, and...

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@MigSu - the Symington 1980 wines are all pretty dark. The Taylor Fladgate ones are lighter. I do worry a bit with this one, and the Dow, that they won’t be ready until I am dead, but there is much to admire about them if not love.

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Five hour decant. Heavy sediment. A gentle mid red. Nose redolent of thyme, orange trees, and dusty cherry jujubes. Sweet entry with some red fruit but lots of well- soaked prune and licorice on the mid palate and finish. A nice clove- studded orange and mace note, late. A particularly delicious bot...

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@ hadge - very sorry to hear you won’t be there. We will raise a glass of D27 to you…

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+ 23 hours Still 85% opaque, red rim. A bit more strawberry on the nose. Palate - and tannins - have softened somewhat, but the finish is still formidably chocolatey and there’s even a prickle of white pepper on the finish still. Drinkable with pleasure after the 24 hour decant but I am not going to...

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Pop and decant and pour. Remarkably dark, still 90% opaque, red rim. Nose very much in the plum, almost prune, licorice, and black currant mode. Big rich congruent palate. Tannins still pretty obvious and quite brutal with this short decant. Long finish, though, where the fruit is starting to peep t...

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@ AHB - I know you bought a good deal of claret in the 1980s and 1990s; when did you switch your allegiance to port?

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A light mahogany with a greenish tinge to the rim. Nose has hazelnut oil, candied chestnut, orange blossom. Super smooth entry, seems sweet at first. Then gently dries out. Some unsulphured apricot. The long wood aging shows but the orchard fruit note - dried quince - remains predominant. Fantastic ...

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@MSC - might you be able to bring a couple of bottles of the usual with you for me to pick up at this one?

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