For The Love Of Port

• 1985 Gould Campbell Porto Vintage - Portugal, Douro, Porto (2/19/2015)
  Decanted six hours before service. This bottle was much more advanced than I expected from this wine. Light-to-medium brink red. The nose is showing cherries, as is the palate. Very little alcohol heat. The wine is medium sweet with a bit of a dry finish (not as much as typical Dow). This bottle was definitely fully mature. I have seven others and if the next one is like this, they should be drunk in the next 5 years. (88 pts.)
  

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This is a very similar note to the bottle we had at the 1985 Vintage Port tasting in Seattle last month. This is completely different from the bottle that I had a month ago from my friend's cellar - purchased recently from WTSO. It seems like there are two types of bottles. Storage issues?

David Spriggs wrote:This is a very similar note to the bottle we had at the 1985 Vintage Port tasting in Seattle last month. This is completely different from the bottle that I had a month ago from my friend's cellar - purchased recently from WTSO. It seems like there are two types of bottles. Storage issues?

+1

I've had really good and youthful bottles of this and also similar to this one now. I suspect some were not well stored, or stored in a warmer environment, compared to the better showing bottles.

+2 ... when this is good, it is very good indeed and extremely youthful and bright.

I can't recall what the other bottles from this case were like, and I guess I didn't record any tasting notes. I'll open another bottle soon to see if it's any different. There wasn't any storage issues noticeable from the condition of the cork, but that's never reliable anyway.

John Danza wrote:I can't recall what the other bottles from this case were like, and I guess I didn't record any tasting notes. I'll open another bottle soon to see if it's any different. There wasn't any storage issues noticeable from the condition of the cork, but that's never reliable anyway.

And this was at the tale end of the "dark period" for Port. So possible there were two different batches of corks used and one batch wasn't as good as the other. All speculation of course, just tossing out other possible issue other than storage.

This back up on WTSO right now.

Already had some but bought 2 more anyway, figure it's not going to go down in price.