For The Love Of Port

Brief notes as it was the 3rd flight after a Krug and old Italian flight - had these all multiple times with consistent results.
Basically these were all wonderful

58 Krohn Colheita - 92 points
Nose - Charcoal and fruit. For some reason my notes say "sideburns."
On the palate rich and lush, pretty much everything I want from a wine

60 Krohn Colheita - 90 points
Nose - Dark, toffee, spicy, molasses
Once again, this 60 showed as the spiciest. Very dark in flavor with molasses

61 Krohn Colheita -95 points
I have had different results depending on the source ranging from 88 points to a solid 95 - this batch is a solid 95 points!
Nice is dark chocolate, treacle, and molasses
The plate is just so big and rich with molasses notes. Love this!

66 Krohn Colheita - 89 points
Clearly the lightest by far
The nose and palate were very similar - very fresh with lots of toffee but not the depth nor complexity of the others

I loved the 95 the best by far. Others preferred the 58 or 60.

Cool that you got to taste these in a flight. Really makes comparing them a lot more fun and you can see strengths and weaknesses of them all.

Wow! Great tasting! Thanks for the notes. The 1961 has always been a favorite of mine. Glad it showed well!
-Dave-

Hi David,

The 61 is my favorite as well and is my go to birthyear wine (although we open a few 61 Barolos too).
Very glad to have a few left!
Ted

Sounds like a really wonderful flight! Krohn makes outstanding Colheitas.

I've moved this topic into the Port Forum for discussion and have split off the TNs separately in Port Tasting Notes so that they'll be picked up properly by the TNDB.

What was the bottling date of the 61? I too have had mixed results with that one.

Marco,
Not sure - bottle got recycled, but will try to check another bottle. May take a few weeks.
On extended travel starting in the morning but I do have another that is the same at a friends - just need to get there
Ted