Los Angeles / O.C. offline with Oscar Quevedo (Quevedo Ports) June 29th

[Glenn E.]

TNs posted!

1996 Quevedo Colheita
Casa de Santa Eufemia Special Reserve White Port
1968 Quevedo Garrafeira Particular (Colheita)
1952 Moreira Colheita
1987 Niepoort Colheita
2000 Quinta do Passadouro Vintage Port
1970 Niepoort Vintage Port
1970 Fonseca Vintage Port
Quevedo Rose Port

Sadly I didn't take notes during the dinner at Zucca's, so I don't have anything for the 1975 Quevedo Colheita. It was excellent, though, and I did make a mental note that I would have rated it 93-94 points. I like Oscar's 1968 just a little better.

Andy did two blind tests for us, and I was quite pleased with myself for picking both correctly. The first was to identify the two '70 VPs. I really thought it was going to be easy because when I was taking my notes they seemed quite different, but once they were blind and being tasted head-to-head it was much harder than I expected. I was pretty sure about the Niepoort, but thought that Andy might have been pulling a fast one on us and had served us something other than the Fonseca for the second Port. But there really wasn't anything else it could have been, so I stayed with the Fonseca.

So then he made us all go wait in the kitchen while he poured two more glasses out of the six tawnies. I picked out the 1987 Niepoort Colheita without even tasting it - the color was very unique to me - and then easily identified the 1952 Moreira as the other glass.

I have to claim my moment of glory because I'll probably never be able to do something like that again!!!