1917 Oporto Douro Superior ‘Imperial Reserve’ Colheita Port

[Bill Spohn]

1917 Oporto Douro Superior ‘Imperial Reserve’ (J. Vandemeulen, Ostend) – this showed as light amber in colour, with a pink hint, the nose sweet and lightly raisined and a bit hot, sweet in the mouth and well balanced with quite good length. The bottle, which was made in a mould and had some inclusions (i.e. old but not super old) bore a label in good shape and a splash of white paint that I’ve never seen on a colheita before, but we were thinking nonetheless that it was probably a colheita bottled some time between the wars. It really came across as a tawny more than anything else. Interesting curiosity and quite tasty.

[Andy Velebil]

Bill, can you post a pic? or email a pic?

[Bill Spohn]

Off the net but I'll see if someone took a pic of our bottle. IIRC this label was the same.