For The Love Of Port

It is a bit of disappointment considering how vaulted the '77 vintage is supposed to be; Croft was on a downward trend at that point. Comparing to '70 Niepoort was a laugh... Only a handful of ports can compete with that. I don't consider '77 to be so fantastic a vintage. Yes, it wasn't really fair...

I really wanted to like this port, as there are a couple more bottles of it under the house. It's in perfectly fine condition, the cork came out in one piece, nothing wrong with it whatsoever. It's just...boring. It lacks the clarity of some of the truly great VPS (like the 1970 Niepoort I had recen...

Andy Velebil wrote:Love this VP. Was your bottle the short fat dumpy one or the regular "normal" type of bottle?

Normal one, bottled 1972...



It was fabulous! :)

Glorious. Bottle in great condition, fill into neck (just), cork came out in one piece. Drank well from opening, tasting now after 6 hours in decanter with stopper on. Colour still deep red with just a slight hint of tawniness. Excellent spirit, not overpowering but evident. Raisiny nose. Gentle, lo...

Excellent colour, deep red with just a hint of brown. 8 hour breathing time. Lovely, lifted nose, still good spirit with a not unpleasant alcohol kick. Licorice and cinnamon on the palate, slightly drier rather than sweeter in style, reasonably long finish. 91 points

Found this bottle leaking in the cellar, so it needed opening! We had scorching hot 35C days last week, and I think the old cork just couldn't cope. Decanted at 11am, tasted 7pm. I had no idea what to expect from this, as there are very few tasting notes to be found. Even Roy doesn't have a tasting ...

I opened a 1L Taylor 2008 LBV last year, no decanting, drank it over a couple of week. I found it to be a very good LBV, much better than expected and with qualities of older wine. So just a heads up to not let it fool you that it was a good wine because of decanting, I think this is a good LBV jus...

I like my VPs really old and mellow. I also noticed recently that I like my filtered LBVs after they've been open for several weeks - on first opening, I find them too big and too sweet and too young. So today I tried decanting my Taylors 2008 LBV and letting it breathe for 8 hours before pouring it...

I have to beat my 21 year old off the bottle. :)

I haven't had much luck with the couple of bottles of this that I've opened...

I scored a case of these in pristine condition - fill levels all in the neck, no visible weeping of the corks. This was the first bottle we'd opened - I'd bought them purely because they were on Roy's Top 12 Vintage Ports list. This port was astonishing - on opening, it was a youthful deep dark purp...

12 hour decant. High shoulder fill. In superb condition. Perfect match to a rich, not too sweet, tiramisu! :) 93 points

The big problem with the 77 Taylor's is that whenever I taste it, I want to throw away half of the ports in my cellar because they all seem crap by comparison. It's that good. I picked up a few bottles recently in the mixed box of 77s - like the 77 Graham's, this was the worst bottle and needed to b...

I had the Niepoort vintage 1960 last Christmas. A very pleasent experience... My friend and I had a second bottle, But it was totally vaporised. Not a single drop of juice was in the bottle.... :( But Then again Luckily, we had the first bottle [cheers.gif] Allan Glad to hear the first bottle was g...

2011 Fonseca
2011 Graham's

Both 750ml bottles, purchased from www.winestar.com.au in Melbourne.

This bottle was a freebie - thrown in with others that I'd bought because the fill was down to mid-shoulder. We removed the wax capsule to find that the cork had sunk in about 3/4". I managed to remove most of it in one piece, but the bottom quarter or so fell into the bottle. On decanting, I w...

Eric Menchen wrote:

Celia C wrote:1960 Niepoort Vintage Port - has anyone tried this? I couldn't find a TN..

I just added an old note, which isn't all that detailed. But we had one of these at the first :ftlop: gala in early 2009 and I just loved the aromas.

Thanks Eric!

1960 Niepoort Vintage Port - has anyone tried this? I couldn't find a TN..
1968 Taylor's Quinta de Vargellas
1980 Dow's Vintage Port

This is a silly little thing, but Mahmoud asked about it in another post. Port bottles are so dark that it used to be hard to check the fill level on old bottles, but it's become a lot easier in recent years with LED torches. I buy these cheapies on ebay (no affiliation whatsoever to the seller) and...

Paul, was at Costco today and saw they have the 2008 Taylor's LBV in stock now...