What have you opened this week?

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1985 Dow
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Roy Hersh wrote:1985 Dow
Wooaa, hold the phone mister. You are now in the midst of Fair duties, as such you shall have nothing older than vintage 2012 Coke and Washington tap water until you're done :lol:
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Qta de Ventozello 2007 LBV 375ml - from Total Wine. Phyllis thought it slightly corked, I didn't.
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Not Port, but JM Fonseca 20 year old Alambre Moscatel de Setubal.
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Tonight after dinner I will be opening a NV Brunheda 40-yr old Tawny Port to celebrate my birthday. We're going to a new Brazillian grill for dinner, so while the theme isn't perfectly Portuguese it's close enough. :-)
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Rocha Glorious 50th (A blend of 1937, 1957, 30 and 10 year tawnies)
Orange with yellow and tinge of red.
Deep aromas of butterscotch and toffee
Quite unctuous and round in the mouth, the lower side of acidity, somewhat alcoholic, orange, vanilla,
anise, slightly cloying. Tasty, good, chewy, but not a re-buy at $42 per .375. Perhaps this has seen better days. (7 years since bottling)

89-90 pts.
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A bottle of Fonseca Guimaraens 1972 - the best bottle of this port I have ever had! Really rather good.
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1977 Warre's Vintage Port from Magnum 8--)
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1983 Krohn Colheita
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Pocas 2001 TN to follow!
Living the dream and now working for a Port company
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1977 Gould Campbell VP
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1935 Taylor Fladgate
1948 Taylor Fladgate
1963 Taylor Fladgate
2000 Taylor Fladgate
1937 Quinta Do Noval colheita
1997 Quinta Do Noval colheita

Port tasting with friends and family the 48 Taylor showed younger than the 63 and was voted the best in the group. :D
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Maurice Fitzhugh wrote:1935 Taylor Fladgate
1948 Taylor Fladgate
1963 Taylor Fladgate
2000 Taylor Fladgate
1937 Quinta Do Noval colheita
1997 Quinta Do Noval colheita
Yeowza!
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Carl D wrote:
Maurice Fitzhugh wrote:1935 Taylor Fladgate
1948 Taylor Fladgate
1963 Taylor Fladgate
2000 Taylor Fladgate
1937 Quinta Do Noval colheita
1997 Quinta Do Noval colheita
Yeowza!
No Kidding!
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2003 Portal LBV
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1966 Niepoort
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You might recall a few weeks ago that I was asking for suggestions for an appropriate port to open to celebrate our silver wedding anniversary. Well, we are celebrating today and have opened a bottle of Nacional 1987 - a port I have never tried and which has had some recent poor reviews from fellow port lovers whose palates I know and trust but which also impressed Suckling and Broadbent when drunk in the mid-nineties. I decided that I wanted to try this for myself to see if these contradictory views are the result of a port going through a mid-life crisis in much the same way the Taylor 1985 was doing a couple of years ago.

We also opened bottles of Mouton Rothschild 1982 and Dom Perignon 2002. Happy days.
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Happy Anniversary Al.

We celebrate our 15th next week. What to open ...
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Eric Menchen wrote:Happy Anniversary Al.

We celebrate our 15th next week. What to open ...
Hey, Happy Anniversary!

Surely the decision is easy...a port from 1997!
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Happy Anniversary! [cheers.gif]
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