1985 Warre Vintage Port

[Glenn E.]

From day 2 of the 1985 horizontal, 24-25 Jan 2015, Holiday Inn Issaquah. All Ports were tasted blind. Unless otherwise noted, Ports were decanted for ~4 hours the morning of the tasting. The ones that I decanted received ~8 hours of decant overnight and were then stoppered for another ~6 hours until the tasting.

1985 Warre Vintage Port
This is one of the bottles that I decanted on Saturday night.

Color: Dark garnet with an opaque center. Equally as dark as #8 (Fonseca), but with a more red/brown/magenta tint to it.

Nose: Watermelon, some sawdust, and some candle smoke. Possibly also some paraffin.

Palate: Watermelon again, some black currant. Very tannic. Good acidity. Beastly.

Score: 94 points. I guessed this was the Warre, but since I decanted it the night before I knew how unusually dark the Warre was going to be. Very uncharacteristic for a Warre - you'd never guess unless you had some sort of clue. Could easily have been mistaken for a Fonseca or Gould Campbell, though the watermelon was a bit strange.