The cork got completely destroyed due to age and being soaked in wine.
Taste notes right after opening and decanting
Peach in the color with nice big curtains on the side of glass.
Hard hitting alcohol in the aroma, has a weak scent of fruit and cask.
High acid and hard alcohol at the start of the taste. Develops into a complex old smoked note. Dried fruits and especially raisin goes up in pace in the after taste. Ends as a complete raisin bomb.
Intermediate rating 88 / 100
Taste notes 4 hours after decanting
The color has turned slightly darker.
Much less alcohol in the aroma, fruit stands out better.
Spiced in the aroma, with a dominating alcohol, hiding the weak fruit scents.
Taste comes off as sweet with good tannins, already a good composition. Ends off with a good dried fruits in the after taste, but still too thin in the taste.
Intermediate rating 85 / 100
Taste notes 4 hours after decanting
Color has gotten darked, resampling blood.
Light fruit notes to the aroma.
Good full bodied in the taste, tannins are still in balance with the fruit. But overall it is still too light in taste and after taste.
This is one of those mysterious bottles of Port. There is no way of knowing if it is going to be good or bad. I bought this 750 ml glass bottle, with very little information and fortunately at only 15€.
The bottle comes with a story. A fellow Dane had a Portuguese friend, who visited Denmark in the mid-seventies. As a gift, he brought him two bottles of Port. A “Borges Vintage Port 1970” and a bottle only labelled “I.V.D.P Vinho do Porto 1946”. The story of the latter, it is supposedly a cask sample from the Port Wine Institute, but there is no evidence backing that up. But that is the story of this 77 year old Port.
Before opening the bottle, it was still completely unknown, where it was from and who made it. Revealing a Borges cork, was very reassuring to the history and that it was given together with another Borges Port.
The wine is very clear with a light brown color, shining notes of orange.
The aroma has many facets. Cask, oak, spicy and very dry dried fruits and still with a dominating alcohol, right after opening. It was afterwards only decanted for an hour.
The taste comes off a bit flat from the start. It is a very sweet wine, but yet with some complexity to it. Extreme long after taste, which eventually reveals notes of cask and smoke. A very interesting taste experience that is hard to describe. There was just some notes in the taste, that even old Vintage Port like 30 years, does not have, and yet on the other side, it was also over age.
12 hours after opening, it has turned completely into Madeira, but with less life to it.
Quinta Do Portal is a family owned wine yard and maker, founded in the 1990s in Porto, Portugal. The vintages from Portal is recommended to be stored for 10 years as they aim for a lighter Port to distinguish themselves form the traditional tannin heavy Douro Port.
I bought this 1500 ml magnum bottle, back in 2016 at the price of 24€, on a sale from a Danish wine shop.
We drank the wine to a large meal of red meat, potatoes, vegetables and salads. It worked so well with a powerful and potent wine to the red meat.
Taste notes right after decanting
Beautifully clear and light red in the color.
Powerful aroma, full of good dried fruit notes, but dominated by the alcohol.
The taste is not that powerful, alcohol shines too hard through it yet, but there is a good dried raisins in the after taste.
Intermediate rating 83 / 100
Taste notes 3 hours after decanting
Aroma has lessened on the alcohol and gives off notes of spices and dried fruits.
The taste has evolved into a powerful Port, alcohol is no longer dominating.
Clear thin red in the color, brown notes, but not going into the violet spectrum. Thin curtains on the walls of the glass.
Ripe fruit in the aroma with a dominating alcohol. Some spicy notes and darkness to it.
Good balance between tannin and fruit, warm and bossy from the alcohol. Leaves a good after taste of dried fruits. Hopefully it will become more full bodied the more air it gets.
Intermediate rating 87 / 100
Taste notes 3 hours after decanting
The color is a bit darker, it has become a more deep red.
Aroma has picked up a bit on the spices, but is still dominated by alcohol.
A bit more notes of the grapes in the taste, tannins relaxing a bit more but still a tad to the thin side.
Intermediate rating 88 / 100
Taste notes 7 hours after decanting
No significant change in color or aroma, since last taste note.
More dried fruits in the taste and a longer after taste. Alcohol has diminished a bit.
Estimated cost of this Quinta do Infantado Vintage Port 2007 bottle of 375 ml is ? Euro.
Quinta do Infantado has been a estate-bottled port producer since 1979. Until that time, all exported Ports had to be shipped in bulk to Vila Nova de Gaia.
Taste notes right after decanting
Clear and deep red in the color, with purple notes. Light curtains on the glass.
Light aroma with a fruited darkness.
Light in the taste, very fresh. However also with a thin feeling to it. Very dry.
Intermediate rating 84 / 100
Taste notes 2 hours after decanting
Much more balance in the taste, the different taste notes come together and is more powerful.
