Tasting old wines at the Wine Fair

Old wines, especially those over say 30 to 40 years old are not easy to come by and one of the special things that one can do in wine fairs is to taste the odd old wine or two. I had the opportunity to taste a few at this year's wine fair earlier in the month, not to mention a couple of bottles from the 1980s. Apart from the old 1962 PX that I had already blogged about, there were also a couple of old vin doux naturel from Languedoc - a Banyuls 1950 which actually tasted older than the Rivesaultes 1946 also on show.

As for the wines from the 1980s, I chanced upon a merchant dealing with Seppeltfield's old fortified wines, even from the end of the 19th century. Now even though they were only having 1988 for tasting, this was opening the door to many older wines, though how many of these actually fall within my budget is another matter. (BTW, the other wine form the 1980s was the Duhart-Milon 1986).