1970 Graham Vintage Port -- Whitwam Bottling
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:03 pm
1970 Graham Porto Finest Reserve Vintage Whitwam Bottling - Portugal, Douro, Porto (11/13/2013)
Tawny witih pink overtones when opened at 8 am the day of the Romain tasting in April 2013, having been decanted off gobs of membranous liver-like crusting. Plenty of thick tears. Sweet cherry candy and mahogany begin the nose profile, resinous and quite high-toned, featuring mint and vanilla over burnt earth. Becomes noticeably drier with a few hours' airing. At first a little heat but nothing really to speak about and intergrates with time.
Later sensing pipe tobacco and sea-urchin caviar. Solid, suave, unusually chunky and restrained in sweetness for a Grahams, with no chance to reach its peak--it was swilled down between 8 and 9 p.m. Despite being not estate bottled, this was as perfect a bottle as I could hope to find, and confirms all the good things I've heard about Whitwham's bottlings--they are completely representative of what they're given to bottle. What a sucker bet for $75 a bottle (a sucker for those who didn't bid on it, which was everyone but me!)
This bottle is completely at its best but is going nowhere--it perhaps has a couple decades or more left in it. Drink now-2033; note by sweetstuff. (96 pts.)
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Tawny witih pink overtones when opened at 8 am the day of the Romain tasting in April 2013, having been decanted off gobs of membranous liver-like crusting. Plenty of thick tears. Sweet cherry candy and mahogany begin the nose profile, resinous and quite high-toned, featuring mint and vanilla over burnt earth. Becomes noticeably drier with a few hours' airing. At first a little heat but nothing really to speak about and intergrates with time.
Later sensing pipe tobacco and sea-urchin caviar. Solid, suave, unusually chunky and restrained in sweetness for a Grahams, with no chance to reach its peak--it was swilled down between 8 and 9 p.m. Despite being not estate bottled, this was as perfect a bottle as I could hope to find, and confirms all the good things I've heard about Whitwham's bottlings--they are completely representative of what they're given to bottle. What a sucker bet for $75 a bottle (a sucker for those who didn't bid on it, which was everyone but me!)
This bottle is completely at its best but is going nowhere--it perhaps has a couple decades or more left in it. Drink now-2033; note by sweetstuff. (96 pts.)
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