1878 Taylor

[jdaw1]

This was a serious vertical of seriously mature Taylor’s Port, 1878 to 1948, on Monday 13^th October 2025 at Noble Rot, Mayfair, as arranged by Alex Bridgeman of BFT fame.

Links:

• Review of the event as a whole;
• 1878 Taylor (AHB);
• 1884 Taylor (MSC+TC);
• 1890 Taylor (AHB);
• 1896 Taylor (MJRM);
• 1900 Taylor (AHB);
• 1908 Taylor (CEM);
• 1912 Taylor (CEM);
• 1917 Taylor (AHB);
• 1920 Taylor (AHB);
• 1924 Taylor (MJRM);
• 1927 Taylor (TC);
• 1935 Taylor (CPR);
• 1942 Taylor (MSC);
• 1945 Taylor (HTWH);
• 1948 Taylor (NAC);
• Planning and arangements;
• Placemats.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Taylor 1878

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Recorked by Whitwhams in March 1986

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Decent colour

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While a decent colour, this is the palest of the four bottles I’m bringing.

Provenance is that the bottle was acquired at the Christie’s New York sale at the Rockerfeller Plaza on 14 October 2006 and carried by hand back to the UK.

[jdaw1]

T1878. Orange, 20% opaque. Palate utterly of crisp orange marmalade, very long, light. Far past prime, but still a joy.

[hadge]

Needed 30 mins in the glass to really open up, lovely dry old fruit, good balance with a mid length finish. This did not have the sweetness of that you normal expect from modern Taylor’s it was a little more like Dow’s. a complete wine, very good, just a little too old for me, to make it excellent. Very Good Hon Mention

[Alex Bridgeman]

The oldest of the wines opened for this deep Taylor tasting. A bottle which had been recorked at Whitwhams in 1986 and which was acquired from a Christie's sale in New York in 2006.

1878 Taylor, opened at 18.30, decanted at 20.45 and served almost immediately. Tasted several times over the course of 2 hours. Orange amber colour with a pale green rim. Delicate almond nose, very elegant and perfumed. Delicate and elegant structure on the palate with tannins still showing in the poised fruit. Lingering cranberry and orange fruit. Really delicious! Delicate, but just gorgeous!!  93/100.