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Fonseca Vintage Port 1985

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This taste note is for the 4th glass from the right.

This was blind tasted as a part of a 1975, 1985 and 1995 tasting of four different houses. The tasting was held by The Vintage Port Club of Odense, Denmark.

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Estimated cost of this Fonseca Vintage Port 1985 bottle of 750 ml is 90 Euro.

Good clarity with a dark red colour.

Suitable  and good dried fruits aroma.

Full bodied taste with a slightly hinting tannin, suitable length after taste and seems to be mature.

Good wine to drink now and properly also to leave in the cellar for years to come.

Overall rating 91 / 100

Ramos Pinto Vintage Port 1985

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This taste note is for the 3rd glass from the right.

This was blind tasted as a part of a 1975, 1985 and 1995 tasting of four different houses. The tasting was held by The Vintage Port Club of Odense, Denmark.

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Estimated cost of this Ramos Pinto Vintage Port 1985 bottle of 750 ml is 73 Euro.

Hazy and dark red in the colour.

Very subtle aroma, almost not there, dried fruits and pure.

Full bodied and dried fruit taste, fresh, fine and mature.

A good wine that is properly also worth saving for longer.

Overall rating 92 / 100

Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 1985

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This taste note is for the 2nd glass from the right.

This was blind tasted as a part of a 1975, 1985 and 1995 tasting of four different houses. The tasting was held by The Vintage Port Club of Odense, Denmark.

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Estimated cost of this Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 1985 bottle of 750 ml is 63 Euro.

Good clarity with a brown colour with notes of mahogany.

Suitable dried fruits aroma that is pleasant and spiced.

Light in the taste but with a dominating tannin, after taste has a decent length and generally it seems mature.

Overall rating 87 / 100

Graham Vintage Port 1985

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This taste note is for the 1st glass from the right.

This was blind tasted as a part of a 1975, 1985 and 1995 tasting of four different houses. The tasting was held by The Vintage Port Club of Odense, Denmark.

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Estimated cost of this Graham’s Vintage Port 1985 bottle of 750 ml is 73 Euro. Learn more about the house of Graham’s here Visiting Graham’s in Porto.

Black and purple colour but still with a good clarity.

Suitable and fine aroma that is just a tiny tad off.

Light in the taste and mild tannin, medium after taste and seems to be matured wine.

Good port that could possibly get better with even more age.

Overall rating 90 / 100

Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 1975

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This taste note is for the 4th glass from the right.

This was blind tasted as a part of a 1975, 1985 and 1995 tasting of four different houses. The tasting was held by The Vintage Port Club of Odense, Denmark.

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Estimated cost of this Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 1975 bottle of 750 ml is 60 Euro.

Dark red colour that is medium hazy.

Potent but also very odd aroma, somewhere between flat fruits and weird spices.

Full bodied taste, mild tannin, short after taste and seems to very unbalanced.

Overall rating 83 / 100

Fonseca Vintage Port 1975

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This taste note is for the 3rd glass from the right.

This was blind tasted as a part of a 1975, 1985 and 1995 tasting of four different houses. The tasting was held by The Vintage Port Club of Odense, Denmark.

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Estimated cost of this Fonseca Vintage Port 1975 bottle of 750 ml is 100 Euro.

Crystal clear red colour.

Suitable aroma that comes of with a fine and spiced scent and dried fruits.

Medium body with a refreshing tannin, short after taste and it is a mature wine.

Generally a good port.

Overall rating 89 / 100

Graham Vintage Port 1975

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This taste note is for the 2nd glass from the right.

This was blind tasted as a part of a 1975, 1985 and 1995 tasting of four different houses. The tasting was held by The Vintage Port Club of Odense, Denmark.

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Estimated cost of this Graham’s Vintage Port 1975 bottle of 750 ml is 87 Euro. Learn more about the house of Graham’s here Visiting Graham’s in Porto.

Brick red with brown notes in the colour and high clarity.

Light and easy going dried fruits aroma that comes off with some spices to it.

Full bodied with a dominating tannin. Short after taste and it is a mature wine.

Good wine but a bit unbalanced.

Overall rating 88 / 100

Ramos Pinto Vintage Port 1975

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This taste note is for the 1st glass from the right.

This was blind tasted as a part of a 1975, 1985 and 1995 tasting of four different houses. The tasting was held by The Vintage Port Club of Odense, Denmark.

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Estimated cost of this Ramos Pinto Vintage Port 1975 bottle of 750 ml is 34 Euro. Learn more about the house Ramos Pinto here Visiting Ramos Pinto in Porto.

Red brown in the colour and with high clarity.

Light aroma that comes off with a fruited scent but no real deepness to it.

Light in the taste with mild tannin. A short after taste and generally a mature wine.

Good but a bit unbalanced.

Overall rating 86 / 100

Real Vinicola Vintage Port 1982 (Tasted 2015)

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Real Vinicola has the longest continuous history of any of today’s producers of Duoro wines. Founded in 1889 under contract with the Portuguese government, it was entrusted with the task of selling wines from various regions in northern Portugal, including Duoro red wines and port wines.

They bought Quinta do Sibio in 1934 and has declared this as Single Quinta Vintage Port. Quinta do Sibio was known as Quinta do Jordão and was planted by Jose Joaquim Pereri Jordão in the 1860s and 1870s. The quinta was in the hands of the Jordão family until 1934 when Real Companhia Vinícola purchased it.

Real Vinicola was bought by Real Companhia Velha in 1963, but the quinta was still sold under the Real Vinicola label.

I bought this 750 ml bottle at 21% as part of a auction lot, this bottle was about 32 Euro.

It was decanted for 6 hours.

Light red see through with brown tones to the colour.

The aroma is dominated by the alcohol over a spiced dried fruits.

Tasting is warm, some tannin, a weak fruit and ends in the sweet end with a little peak of tannin.

By time the alcohol became less dominant and the taste was a bit more balanced, but not a great port.

Overall rating 85 / 100

Quinta De La Rosa Vintage Port 1990

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The Bergqvist family has been making port since 1815. Quinta de Ia Rosa was given as a christening present for Claire Feuheerd, Sophia’s grandmother, in 1906. The family port shipping company, Feueheerd, was sold in the 1930s but La Rosa was kept and run by Sophia’s grandmother, Claire. In 1988 Sophia and her father, Tim Bergqvist, decided to restart the family business and launched Quinta de Ia Rosa as a top quality port producer onto the market place.

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I have this 750 ml bottle at 20% from a auction lot. It is a rarely seen vintage year from Quinta De La Rosa.

2 hours in the decanter

Clear and light red colour with amber notes.

Aroma comes off with spices, warmth, dried fruits and they play between them is rather pleasant.

Tannin is strong and together with the alcohol it comes off rather hard in the start. It is more spiced than fruity and it is dry and fresh.

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4 hours in the decanter

It has darkened up a little bit.

The aroma is much more fruitful.

Taste is the same and tannin is still dominating.

8 hours in the decanter

No difference from the above.

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48 hours after decanting, on the bottle again

More fruit and some oak have started to shine through. Less tannin but it still comes off with a bite and the after taste is not overwhelming with dried fruits and sweetness.

 

I would say that it needs more than 8 hours in the decanter, the tannin are simply too rough and needs some more air to get the port to come better together. It is a very closed wine that needs some time and attention on when it is ready to drink.

I will save my last bottle of it for another 5 years and see how it is by then.

Overall rating 89 / 100