Thu 13th Dec 2018 - The Christmas Offline

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Alex Bridgeman
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Thu 13th Dec 2018 - The Christmas Offline

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Many thanks to Tom for hosting us in the White Horse in Newport for our annual Christmas get-together. 9 of us were able to make it and we had a good evening with a much better success rate than we did last year.

Gradually I will post tasting notes and create threads for the wines we tasted, but these were:
  1. Bottled by Bailey Brothers of Wakefield, identified from the cork as from the 1920 vintage but no shipper branded on the cork
  2. Davy's Crusted Port landed 1977
  3. Martinez 1927
  4. Graham, believed 1955
  5. Cockburn 1935
  6. Constantino 1935
  7. Gonzales Byass 1932
  8. Croft 195?
  9. Quinta do Noval 1931
  10. Unbranded cork, bottled by Mitcheltomb & Sons; believed to be from the second half of 19th century
  11. Niepoort 2017 cask sample
  12. Warre 1970
  13. Churchill 1982
The wine of the night vote had the unknown 1920 from Bailey Brothers of Wakefield favourite with 16 points. In second place was the Graham 1955 with 13 points. In third place was the Quinta do Noval 1931 with 9 points and the elderly Mitcheltomb was in fourth with 8 points. Also scoring were the Cockburn 1935 (4 points), the Constantino 1935 (3 points) and the Martinez 1927 (1 point). Wines 11-13 were not eligible for the WotN vote.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.

2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
Christopher
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Re: Thu 13th Dec - The Christmas Offline

Post by Christopher »

Thanks for posting, pleased you had a great night
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