On a Monday night, a bunch of VPs because, why not?

[Roy Hersh]

8 people @ Chez Hersh for a long day into night into morning of what turned out to be 18 bottles of Vintage Port.

1851 Warre's - mindblowing and the group's typical thought was circa 1960-ish
1896 Dow's - drink fast, the TCA's coming, bummer
1912 Warre's - Elegant while it lasted and my first time trying it
1927 Fonseca - I prefer 1975 Ferreira.
1931 Quinta do Noval - even better than the bottle from 2 weeks ago
1931 Quinta do Noval Nacional - imagine opening a corked one of these? Known to have been purchased from the 2nd owner of this bottle.
1931 " " " " - only at a tasting like this would there be a perfect back up bottle, tonged to show a branded cork no less
1945 Dow's - the weakest link of the '45s @ only 95 points.
1945 Warre's - four scored it exactly the same ... the only ones using ratings. A "wow" wine and I had no idea.
1945 Croft - not as amazing as a bottle at the end of April, yet still enchanting
1945 Taylor - ditto the line above, but that only goes to show how good the other bottle was
1945 Fonseca - why don't I get to drink this more often?
1948 Taylor - much better than the bottle from our warm up session 2 weeks ago, but that was not a very high bar
1948 Fonseca - It was darker than the 1963 Nacional and the best bottle of 1948 Fonseca I've ever tasted
1963 Quinta do Noval Nacional - No words do it justice
1966 Quinta do Noval Nacional - off bottle
1967 Quinta do Noval Nacional - off bottle
1994 Quinta do Noval Nacional - I've said it before and I'll say it again, this Port will become known as the greatest Nacional of all, in future generations.

Epic!

TN's/article in July's newsletter. I am working on our 1983: 30 year Restrospective and Verdelho Velhissima tasting reports for the next two newsletter's Feature Article.

[Eric C]

You lucky guys

[Moses Botbol]

We want pictures!

[Bradley Bogdan]

What a lineup!

[Eric Menchen]

Too bad about the 1966 and 1967, but it seems you had other bottles to drown your sorrows.

[Miguel Simoes]

V impressive. What a fantastic lineup!

[Roy Hersh]

Eric,

Well it was not as bad of a bummer as a corked 1931 Quinta do Noval Nacional and 1896 Dow's VP. The 1966 and especially the 1967 are two Nacionals that I've had a lot of over the years. Until this tasting I had only had the 1931 Nacional and 1896 Dow's once each. The 1966/1967 were definitely NOT corked, just not great. That being said, there was plenty of top notch bottles here to fill lots of hours of consumption. I will be finishing the last glass of the 1994 Nacional tonight in preparation of a fantastic Port tasting in SF tomorrow afternoon, with lots of oldies and plenty of 2011 cask samples too.

[Roy Hersh]

Moses,

Some pictures are now on FB, it is just too much of a pain to post photos here, at least for this techno-challenged individual.

[Eric Ifune]

Epic is right!

[David Spriggs]

Agreed... Epic! The corked bottles are just are part of the landscape -- it's likely that a few would be tainted

[SEAN C.]

Here's a sneak peak of the lineup!

[Tom D.]

Darn it, my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail