1982 Dow Quinta do Bomfim Vintage Port

[Steven Kooij]

Dow 1982 Quinta do Bomfim Vintage Port. From 375, decanted some 4 hours before tasting it non-blind.

This bottle had thrown about 1 cm of deposit, and looked very light in the glass. Still ruby red, but with a slight bricking on the edge. Initially, nothing on the nose apart from a very slight whiff of VA. This blew off with some more time, revealing dried figs and leather.
Big bodied, but not glycerolic. Sweet for a Dow. Very smooth, plenty of dried fruits, tobacco and caramel. Slightly hollow on the midpalate. No tannins left.
Medium finish, rather dry with earthy flavours, if a bit hot.
Not the most interesting of VPs, but better than I had expected (especially from a 375): 87 points – drink up!

[Tom Archer]

Sounds a bit rough!

Although writers like to vilify the '75's (somewhat unfairly IMO), '82 was a year that did much damage to those shippers that declared their blends in preference to the '83's.

Croft, Delaforce and Sandeman are still licking their wounds..

Tom

[Steven Kooij]

Tom, my experience with '82 is very limited, but this was WAY better than the Sandeman. The Roots' and I will be tasting 1982 Taylor's Terra Feita and Fonseca's Cruzeiro in a few weeks side-by-side: I'm curious to see how they will hold up...

[Ronald Wortel]

I am still searching for an (affordable!) bottle of Niepoort 1982, apparently one of the better bottlings of the vintage. If anyone knows a source, please post of PM. TIA! (Sorry Stevie for drifting off topic...)

[Steven Kooij]

No problem Ronnie: just as long as you'll share the bottle! :)

[Andy Velebil]

Ronnie,

A quick search on Winesearcher.com shows a bottle for 40,00 Euro's
http://www.divino.be/ A wine store in Belgium

or

http://www.raeburnfinewines.com/ for 47.50 pounds (i think) in the UK

It also showed 1 in Spain and 2 in Portugal.

[Ronald Wortel]

Thanks Andy! Especially the shop in Belgium looks very promising.