Vintage Port 1917
| Vintage | Rating | Broad-
bent | Suckling | Declared houses | Known brands | Comment |
|---|
| 1917 | Very good | 3 | 88 | 15 | 34 | |
| House | Garnett Brothers | Vintage | 1917 |
| Colour | Still rather dark but quite beautiful mature yellow in colour. | Number of tastings | 1 |
| Bouquet | Toffee, crema caramel, cream candy, butterscotch and much more in the nose. | Score range | 16.75 - 16.75 |
| Taste | Medium body. Perfect mature and peaking. Will of course not be better. Balanced an very elegant and complex. Butterscotch, crème caramel and candy in taste with a lovely and very attractive finish. | Average score | |
| Last tasted | 23rd December 2017 | Point this date | 16.75 |
| Comment | At home with the family.
Bottled by Garnett Brothers in Sheffield, UK, but the port wine house is unknown to us.
| Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |
| House | Quinta da Soalheira
Borges | Vintage | 1917 |
| Colour | Almost tawny with an olive green rim but very beautiful in colour. | Number of tastings | 1 |
| Bouquet | Zest of orange, fudge, some toffee, burned sugar, liquorice and some alcohol in the nose. | Score range | 18.00 - 18.00 |
| Taste | Medium body. Of course mature with some delicate old acidity but balanced and very complex. Very easy to drink and enjoy with a taste of old grocery shop, fudge, burned sugar and lots of other things and a quite long and seductive finish. | Average score | |
| Last tasted | 19th April 2019 | Point this date | 18.00 |
| Comment | Tasting at home with the family
| Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |
| House | Ramos Pinto | Vintage | 1917 |
| Colour | Quite tawny in colour. | Number of tastings | 1 |
| Bouquet | Liquorice, sweet liquorice and candy in the nose. | Score range | 15.75 - 15.75 |
| Taste | Hardly medium body. Mature and even a little old with some quite balanced old acidity. Has probably been much better. Quite sweet with liquorice and sweet liquorice in taste and a nice but maybe a little short finish. | Average score | |
| Last tasted | 23rd December 2017 | Point this date | 15.75 |
| Comment | At home with the family.
| Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |
| House | Unknown vintage | Vintage | 1917 |
| Colour | Still rather dark but quite beautiful mature yellow in colour. | Number of tastings | 1 |
| Bouquet | Toffee, crema caramel, cream candy, butterscotch and much more in the nose. | Score range | 16.75 - 16.75 |
| Taste | Medium body. Perfect mature and peaking. Will of course not be better. Balanced an very elegant and complex. Butterscotch, crème caramel and candy in taste with a lovely and very attractive finish. | Average score | |
| Last tasted | 23rd December 2017 | Point this date | 16.75 |
| Comment | At home with the family.
Bottled by Garnett Brothers in Sheffield
| Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |