1980 Graham Vintage Port

[Glenn E.]

"Best of the '80s" FTLOP Vintage Port Retrospective
Holiday Inn Issaquah
1/29/2011

1980 Graham Vintage Port
served blind

Color: Dark red, pretty in the glass.
Nose: Alcohol, some fruit. Not a lot to distinguish it from anything else.
Palate: Very nice! Round, semi-sweet, and rich. Quite a break from the nose.
Finish: Tannins and a slight edge, otherwise nice. Apples on the tail. Long.

Score: 91 points. Most powerful Port of the first flight, but seemed out of sorts. I wrote down Dow but then scratched it out because it was too sweet and didn't have that tartness that I've come to associate with Dow.

[Lamont Huxley]

Glenn - I'm curious to know how your review of the '80 Dow's that we drank at the vertical compares to this one...

[Glenn E.]

I'm cleaning up a bunch of backlogged TNs over the next couple of days and will get to the Dow vertical eventually. Our '80 Dow showed better than the one in this tasting, though.

[Lamont Huxley]

Oops - I meant to reply on the Dow's note, not this one, but I guess you get what I meant.