For The Love Of Port

I bought 6 bottles of this 62 wine 3 from one source and three from a merchant.I have had two bottles from the merchant and Tom has the other.The second bottle was nowhere near as sweet as the first but still easily a portuguese style port.I tasted this alongside a bottle of Adams wine merchant 63 v...

Now for the Noval 75 promising colour how I remembered it.But what a let down I remember it being light in style with juice this was light but faded and etheral no improvement over 24 hours.reminded me of an A Pintos do Santos I had fairly recently 1970 which was simialar This tasting note is one of...

The Pocas Junior bottled in 84 was more like a colheita a dark rose verging on tawny nutty with a wispy finish I quite liked it.Driven short cork this was good value,funnily enough there was nothing hot on either tasting which I expected. This tasting note is one of several related tasting notes. Cl...

The sogrado had quite a bit of sediment looked pale and tasted like an off vintage port light in character but with smokiness of age not a lot going for it but still nice.

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The Noval 78 is a lot better than their 75 but still a bit on the weak in body and fruit on it's way out I prefer the Vargellas for this year.

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The Martinez was lovely drinking I would say at it's peak and what a bargain price on the coat tails of the best 85's.

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The dow's I've had a couple of times this year and I think their is more to come from this wine although it is still very pleasent to drink now.

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Croft 63 a real sophisticated beauty

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Sandemans 63 more punch but just lacked the extra

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Martinez 85 one of my favourites as sure as ever

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Burmester 1900 a real sticky colheita very syrupy not my style but still nice

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.garrafeira 1917 this was a beauty absolutly first class

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Presidential 2000 lbv run of the mill lbv nothing offensive on par with others I've tasted(I'm not a great fan of lbvs if anyone can reccomend a good one let me know I tend to think there are better ports out there for the same money).$10 This tasting note is one of several related tasting notes. Cl...

Krohn colheita 92.I was dissapointed with this one very light lacking body and taste a bit of afterburn on the finish.$14

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Burmester 85.As soon as I decanted this one I knew it was going to be good.The aroma as it hit the decanter was heaven sent ahhhh.Decanted for seven hours rich deep colour swirled around the mouth lovely full on fruit finishing with a long touch of coffee.A good one,I can't make my mind up about thi...

I have a bottle of this given by a friend Which has on it not for resale sample only I'm glad for any tasting notes thanks,Roy has an idea who it's from

which affordable vintages should i approach.

In my experiance no, a weak single quinta in my opinion at best.Grahams are the only one that I've tasted out of six or seven that has some staying power.

Hold on a minute Fred I was once working outside a famous horse trainers stables and he gave me a certain tip for a race that day but what he should have said is keep your money in your pocket.

I've mailed the merchant concerned to tell him what the bottles actually are.Thanks Tom