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1980 Smith Woodhouse Vintage Port

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:45 am
by Monique Heinemans.
Decanted for two hours: not much on the nose, orange/red rim. Taste is much better than the nose, lots of dark fruit, plums, dates, some bitter tones of chocolate, but also grapefruit (?), a nice glass, mediumlong aftertaste.
Second and third day much better, lovely tones of dried fruit and dark chocolate, although the nose stays pretty closed and the aftertaste medium.

Re: 1980 Smith-Woodhouse VP

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 7:42 pm
by Roy Hersh
Monique,

Reading your TN, the first thing I thought of was ... "only 2 hours for decanting of a youngster like this?"

I am not at all surprised that it showed much better with a couple of days open to not only flesh out but for the aromatics to really come alive.

Re: 1980 Smith-Woodhouse VP

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 7:15 am
by Monique Heinemans.
Patience.......... :oops:

Re: 1980 Smith-Woodhouse VP

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:09 pm
by Andy Velebil
Monique Heinemans. wrote:Patience.......... :oops:
But oh so hard when it taste so good :)