| Posted by:David Chan | Penfolds Grandfather Port NV | Wed Aug 11 16:13:40 EST 2004 |
| Parkhill Cellars Penfold Special Bin Dinner (10/8/04): Colour - a vibrant deep reddish hazelnut colour. Nose - lifted raisins, nutty, rancio/maderia, dried fruit peels, slightly alcoholic. Palate - rancio, hazelnuts, raisins, dried figs, caramelised citrus peels, madeira. Long length, but finishing hot (alcoholic). Like the previous tasting note, I find newly opened bottles distinctly alcoholic. My preference is to open this wine and let the brandy spirits/alcoholic vapours leak out of a loosely re-corked bottle. I find that the air usually takes the alcoholic edge off after the bottle has been opened a couple of weeks. Monitoring the condition of the wine by savouring small amounts every day is particularly enjoyable! :-) (Wine #16) | ||
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| Posted by:David Chan | Penfolds Grandfather Port NV | Mon Jun 23 00:44:53 EST 2003 |
| Tasted 26/5/03 at the end of the Parkhill Cellars Penfolds Dinner at Matteo's. Apart from a mystery wine in a game of wine options, we finished off the night with an old favourite. This is a tawny port, blended with a component from an oak cask set aside in 1915. Colour - deep reddish orange, with a vaguely greenish-hazel rim. Nose - lifted raisins, dried druits, madeirised (rancio?) notes. Palate - raisins, dried figs, caramelised fruits/peels, rancio, madeira, crushed nuts, alcohol a touch forward. Very long length, finishes a bit dry. Just the thing to cut through my numbed (granged) palate. | ||
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