Great Vintage Port Tasting

Vintage 1987

On November 17, 2022, we arranged a Great Tasting with Vintage Ports from 1987 in Malmö. We were 15 attending participants in the tasting, which we set up in two flights with twelve wines in each flight. We had done a qualified guess on which wines should be the best, and put them in the last flight. Within each flight we randomly mixed the order to make the tasting semi-blind.

We have ranked the 1987 Vintage as Very Good. We know of 54 different brands from 1987 which is quite many for a vintage that was not generally declared. Many people are under the opinion that 1987 should have been declared, and there are for sure some excellent wines from the Vintage.

The highest score from the group was given to Taylor's Quinta de Vargellas. Niepoort and Cockburn's Quinta do Tua was not so far behind and also Warre's Quinta da Cavadinha, Burmester and Taylor's Quinta de Terra Feita were actually also almost on the same level. Overall, the quality was high and we really enjoyed tasting these 35 years old port wines.

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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