Ed wrote:
I shared a bottle of the 2001 last weekend: initially very promising and had aged pretty well but not much of a finish at all and I was left feeling disappointed. Maybe I'd left it too long.
Whilst the Duro port grape, this one is from Estremadura near Lisbon. I don't know the region and have no idea about the 2001 vintage there. The 2006 vintage is no where near tannic or acidic enough to be a medium keeper. That is not the style for this softer wine with a shorter length, but never-the-less, a lovely flavour
I think you were living on a wing and a prayer ! That wine is seven years since release and you paid, what, circa £4.99 or so in 2004. So the length for a 2001, would deteriorate further.
Well, I suppose you may have forgotten you had the wine ! Did you try the wine, before leaving it all this time ?
I don't mean to punish
