Decant: 3 hours - My second bottle of this wine and one with as much sediment in as the previous. This was a bit of an "emergency" decant so it was not opened as far in advance of drinking as I would normally try to do.
The nose was pretty closed, not much other than a faint whiff of blackcurrants. The fruit came into the mouth but then the acidity started to dominate everything in a fairly unpleasant and off-putting way. I called the wine "spikey". There was some mid-palate complexity, but nothing that compensated for the unbalanced acidity. The aftertaste was acceptable, but short and not well developed. This was very disappointing and nowhere near as good as the bottle I had last year. On Tom's scale, I would put this as a 1 for current drinking but really have no clue as to where it will go in the future - it could be that this was a bad bottle (but came from the same source and provenance as my previous bottle) or that 3 hours in the decanter is nowhere near enough time for this wine. I will come back to this tomorrow night. 1/? 84 points
TN: 1991 Warre Vintage Port
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