Porto

Nice start for a trip to Lisbon. Still very youthfull. By the glass at Helsinki airport...

Not as old bones as a previous bottle, this showed much younger indeed, a deep, layered medium rose color; whereas the other was tawny in color, and showed much more evolution on nose. Hmm eh, always a gamble opening old stuff, bottles almost never show identically....but such is the magic of wine!! What we had here was a gorgeous nose of cherry pie, date square and fig, with toffee, old leather and cinnamon. The palate was quite smooth and rich, big in the middle but still supple and streamlined, good acids remain and even a touch of tannin. This bottle still had another 10 years before it should have been opened. The alcohol was mostly covered on the finish. I drank it with pleasure over 5 days, the third was the best. Excellent stuff, though i preferred the more mature and complex bottle i had earlier the year!

Who could taste at this point.....? You just feel this one as it goes down your throats and tries to digest everything else. Still good!!!

Yup, this happened. Lots of sediment, cork broke, coffee filter needed. Delicious.