1983 Gould Campbell Vintage Port

[Andy Velebil]

Next up was the 1983 Gould Campbell VP : I decanted this for about 8 hours by the time we started on it. We all agreed it was not corked, but the nose and palate was not giving up much. THere was no signs of fading or bricking and this was no where near showing its 24 years of age. On the palate the fruit was subdued but no showing much in the way of mature fruit flavors yet. We wondered if this was just still very tight, as the color and lack of mature fruit seemed to indicate this. There was tons of tannins and acidity in this and it had a long finish. I tried this on day 2 and it had opened up some, showing a little bright fruit, but still not what other recent reviews of this have mentioned. I didn't score this I feel this was an off-bottle and will have to open another to compare it too.

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