1967 Viuva José Gomes da Silva & Filhos Colares Reserva Tinto

Community Tasting Notes (14) Median Score: 93 points

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  4/29/2024 - Mr_Jinx wrote: 94 Points

  Mellow tannins, surprisingly strong fruit, and quite fresh despite the age. Certainly tastes like what you’d think a seaside wine might taste like, and it was a real pleasure.

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  3/7/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine:

  Voge and Friends (Llewelyn's): Ordered off the list, for the very reasonable reason that it was there. A type of wine I know nothing about, and real taste of history. Evidently the grapes are grown on very sandy soils, almost sand dunes - and they were grown 7 years before the carnation coup liberated Portugal.
  
  Anyway - the wine itself. Some marzipan there. Sone VA. Incredibly vibrant fruit still. Someone said "sandwich" - which I took to mean that biting through it you get very different tastes and textures, which to me seemed spot on - but it's so clean for such a venerable wine. Served from 650ml bottle and the label states 11% abv.

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  3/6/2024 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine:

  Voge & Friends (Llewelyn's Herne Hill, London): A real slice of history here. This wine was older than two thirds of the participants and what a joy; a real unicorn wine. It's intriguing on the nose with a savouriness that charms but in a different register to the majority of reds I drink. With some air I was getting hints of making the Bread Sauce on Christmas morning; white bread with cloves, bay and pepper. Palate is compact but balancing lovely acidity with some forest floor. Great that we all chipped in and sipped some history.

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  3/6/2024 - oenanthe Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Cornas, Voge and Friends (Llewelyn's, Herne Hill): A surprise find on the list at Llewelyn's, Herne Hill, and with six of us the outlay was achievable in order to have what will likely be a unique experience for all of us. The good news is that it's alive and well, with a sweet nose containing rubber and boot polish. The wine is medium red, a bit dilute perhaps but the colour remains true, many grapes would have evolved and bricked several decades ago but not ramisco for some reason, not even a hint. It is natty, funky, vibrant, and more than a little bit wild! The red fruit is amazingly still there, coupled with a high acidity which presumably accounts for this crazy longevity. I can't score it in the mid 90s as some have, it's just not that kind of wine in my book, but it's still incredible. The bottle is very old school green glass the likes of which you barely see now, and also a bit smaller at 650ml, which is something I've never seen before. A bizarre but very fun way to end the evening. What a treat!

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  11/27/2023 - Rollerball wrote:

  A unforgettable pairing. First—on its own—this was memorable but not necessarily pleasurable. The flavors were integrated and no longer fruit-driven but still somehow strict with warm brick, dried fruits, fading flowers, and smokey herbs. I never would have thought to pair it with a touch of sweetness but it was magical with a sticky-glazed, rare-smoked squab breast at Belcanto.

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