1977 Royal Oporto

[winesecretary]

A port of which there appears to be no previous note on this forum.

An impeccably stored dumpy bottle but which featured a remarkably short cork which not even a Durand managed to get out whole.

4 hour decant

Wine a light garnet, watery rim

Fairly simple nose of musty cranberries and cooking herbs.

Sweet entry. Distinctly soft and lush with sweet cranberries.

Quite a good tart cranberry finish.

A bit one-note. Not wholly without interest.

But given a choice between this and Niepoort 2015 LBV I'd drink the latter 9 times out of 10.

[nac]

Assuming this is a bottle that I supplied to GEAG, then the "impeccably stored" is prossibly not quite right. Full OWC from C&B was a bit of a mess and both damp and wooodworm damaged. Some labels also damp affected. But reasonably good value.

[winesecretary]

I am unbothered by damp labels. Cork came out clean and level was excellent.