1992 Graham's Quinta dos Malvedos Vintage Port

[Andy Velebil]

Still retains a nice dark purple color. The fruit has fully entered it's secondary phase, rather rough and disjointed, lacking complexity, with some protruding spirit and cough syrup. Given how good most vintages of this are, this one is quite lackluster. I don't see this in a phase, but rather an average non-classically declared VP that is probably better to drink sooner rather than later.
86 Points

[Eric Menchen]

So in the split decision, perhaps both SFE and TFP were correct in their declarations.

[Andy Velebil]

So in the split decision, perhaps both SFE and TFP were correct in their declarations.

That's the million bottle question. I think TFP for sure won the split. Their 1992's rock and IMO show less evolved and better than the SFE 1991's and 1992 SQVP's.

What could SFE have done had they chosen 1992 and made the full fledged versions instead of SQVP's. Probably better than how this Malvedos shows that's for sure. But that's pure speculation. Obviously SFE thought 1991 was the better of the two at the time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose in wine making.