For The Love Of Port

This has recently shown up in Alberta (375ml only, oddly enough) in very limited quantities. I know what it is but know little about the producer or the quality. Is it common for colheitas to come out of a universally declared year? Anyone tasted this?

It's very good, not great - here's my first taste impressions below (from 375ml) - maybe 88/89points:

Barros Colheita 77

Ran across a few 375ml today.

A rich orangeish mahogany, much more red than the Krohn Colheitas I've been posting about, then again this is younger 77 vs. 66/60/58

The nose has molasses and almond paste and other nuts, brown sugar..

Smooth and long in the mouth - the intensity builds for at least a dozen or 24 seconds after swallowing. An incredible feeling of silkiness, not like really fine, smooth, tamed, and round tannins from a red wine, but much smoother, to steal a phrase, "like silk."

Definite brown sugar, nuts, and some some high toned red fruits. most of the taste seems to come from the end/edges of the tongue and front of the mouth, but that could be my slight cold speaking (which is also why I'll refrain from a numerical score)


I keep getting whiffs of carpet cleaner, but I think its *real* carpet cleaner. Unlike some people who unhealthily obssess over wine, I have multiple obsessions and one involves long periods of no sleep - add the requisite coffee and hyper active kids - and resolve carpet cleaner enters the picture :)

Very fine indeed (the wine that is)

I have had this one twice and found enjoyable, but a bit too hot for my taste. It was 4 years ago though

I would not pay more than 25$ for a half. I like Barros 20 tawny more than their colheitas.

Steve

THe last one I had was the 2004 bottling and it did not show as good as the recent ones were. A bad bottle? I found it rather thin while the previous ones rich and complex.