Sometimes things just happen a certain way. Following on the way a secondary theme of fortified wines (and a tertiary theme of old wines) at last year's Wine Fair, I ended up tasting 7 wines of 50 years or over in the fortnight starting 16th May. First there was the 20th Century Madeira tasting in which the surprise was the 1795 Terrantez donated by a friend, then there was the Taylor's pre-launch tasting of the 1863 single harvest port.
So in order of increasing age, I had tasted Taylor's 1964 Single Harvest Port, 1958 Bual, 1922 Bual and 1908 Bual Madeiras from d'Oliveira, the 1863 Taylor's Single Harvest Port, Taylor's Scion Port (from 1855) and the Barbeitos 1795 Terrantez Madeira. Quite an amazing collection of old wines!! Now I had tasted a number of other wines of similar longevity; wonder if there is enough to write a little book in appreciation of old wines?!
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