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Written by Roy Hersh   
Sunday, 25 May 2008

1983 Cockburn's Vintage Port - Decanted for 6 hours then consumed three hours after that.   Early on it seemed pretty clean and tasted just fine.  After 3 hours the TCA nose of musty mushrooms set in.  I am used to this with the '83 Cockburn's but was still disappointed.  What was weird though, unlike past bottles where the taste of the wine was every bit as bad as the aromatics, here the palate was still good.  By the time we finished dinner and got to drinking this wine it was nearly 9 hours after it had been opened.  The nose was even more stinky and hard to get past.  However, I am always interested to learn from corked wines as rarely do they behave the same way and even the 1983 Cockburn's VP shows differently corked bottle to corked bottle.  The palate was still quite clean and was pretty tasty.  Smooth and rich with a really nice mouth feel and flavors of dark raspberry and a good dose of chocolate.  The finish was modest at best and if able to discern any corkiness at all on the palate, it was in the finish which should have been significantly longer.  I am not one to typically score a corked wine or Port, but since the palate was solid here ... I am deducting about 9 points for the nose.

85 points  5/24/08