1979 Delaforce Colheita Port
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:24 am
From a 500ml bottle, and packaged as a two pack of the 1986 and 1979 for about US$70
Drank immediately after the 86 (should have had the side by side, but I was too lazy to go find more glasses, and didn't know my wife would be joining me).
Color: rich amber rose, perhaps slight darker than the 86
Nose: not a big nose, chalk, slate, talcum powder with air. Something clean and surgical to the nose (and pleasant). Candied fruit with 1-2 hours of air. Nice.
The few drops left in the morning, not enough to taste due to evaporation, had a mindblowing nose of charcoal and caramel -- 95 point nose at this point.
Taste: Slighty spicier than the 86 but more subdued, similar to the 86 but less outgoing and gregarious. With 1 1/2 hours of air, this improves a lot. I fear I drank it much too fast after opening
An 85ish pointer upon opening, but it kept getting better. It was a solid 90 when it was finished. I'll give it a confusing 88-92+ points.
If this bottle was representative, this NEEDS decanting. Not only did it improve over 1 1/2, but the nose in the morning was gorgeous as noted above.
12/03/08
Drank immediately after the 86 (should have had the side by side, but I was too lazy to go find more glasses, and didn't know my wife would be joining me).
Color: rich amber rose, perhaps slight darker than the 86
Nose: not a big nose, chalk, slate, talcum powder with air. Something clean and surgical to the nose (and pleasant). Candied fruit with 1-2 hours of air. Nice.
The few drops left in the morning, not enough to taste due to evaporation, had a mindblowing nose of charcoal and caramel -- 95 point nose at this point.
Taste: Slighty spicier than the 86 but more subdued, similar to the 86 but less outgoing and gregarious. With 1 1/2 hours of air, this improves a lot. I fear I drank it much too fast after opening
An 85ish pointer upon opening, but it kept getting better. It was a solid 90 when it was finished. I'll give it a confusing 88-92+ points.
If this bottle was representative, this NEEDS decanting. Not only did it improve over 1 1/2, but the nose in the morning was gorgeous as noted above.
12/03/08