Decant: 3½ days - Derek kindly gave me a little snifter of this to take home with me, whereupon it was put in storage and forgotten about until today. Tasted about 3 days after decanting, this was splendid. The nose had opened up to show lots of sweet, ripe plums. Still showing the reserved dryness of a Dow, this is now full of fruit and with a lovely mixture of ripe sweetness yet also with some delicious bitterness - like biting into a ripe plum with a slightly bitter skin. But the highlight of this port is its incredible aftertaste that is a mix of sweet braised plum with bitter chocolate shavings all over the plate and which just goes on and on.
I only have one of these bottles tucked away and this showing tells me that it should remain tucked away for a good few years yet. This was much better today than when poured after "only" 15 hours of decanting. 93/100. 93 points
TN: 1977 Dow Vintage Port
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