Semi-Great Vintage Port Tasting

Vintage 1988

The Wine Society 18% had a Semi-Great Tasting 15 September 2016 of the Vintage 1988. This Vintage was an off vintage, and was judge as Average. Known Brands was 16 and only 11 houses declared. Michael Broadbent gave this vintage * out of 5*.

We call it Semi-Great because we had only 10 Vintages and 1 LBV and not 20 Vintages which is our limit for calling it a Great Tasting. In addition to the 11 Vintages we had one extra port in order to remember one of our members who have died during the summer. This was a Vintage 1931 from Hunt. We were 14 participants in the tasting. The tasting was blind.

See Our Points to translate it to 100 points scale. The vintage made some very attractive wines, but it is not surprising none of the major houses declared 1988. We think the wines are rather lean and one-dimensional, but some are very attractive and worth hunting and some will even develop a little more which surprise us.

Terra Feita and Vargellas 1988

Tasting notes. Note that the points are for the actual bottle tasted. Read about how we set point on the page "How to understand our points valuations"

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