Great Vintage Port Tasting

Messias - 30 Years Jubilee Tasting 18%

Our wine club The Wine Society 18% celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. In 1992 the Society was planned for by 6 persons, where of only Sten is still a member, but two more participated in our Jubilee Tasting. The actual start of the Wine Society was in 1993, a difficult year for Vintage Port, but the Wine Society still stands strong after all these years. Since many years also Jörgen and Stef-an are members. We have during these 30 years tasted quite a lot of vintage port. It has been alto-gether >800 different vintage ports ranging from 1862 to 2014. Unfortunately, we have only tasted 4 vintage ports from the 19th century.

The Wine Society 18% have 15 members and have 5 meetings/year, and some extra every now and then. Since we are only 15 members, we can have quite rare bottles as one bottle of each is enough.

The Wine Society 18% has had once a year a Great Tasting since 2005. It all started with a Great Tasting of the vintage 1963 with 39 houses. Since then we have had 21 Great Tastings spanning vintages between 1947 and 1992. We have only had 7 house tastings during these years so we decided to have a Messias/Quinta do Cachao Tasting as our 30 Year Jubilee Tasting.

Messias was established 1926 by Mr. Messias Baptista who got involved in the Port Wine business and production in 1934 but started shipping Vintage Port in 1950. He was chief for the house until 1973 and today, the descendants are in the board of directors. Until 2009 the label Quinta do Cachão (or only Cachão) was used on some markets for the exact same wine as Messias. 2009 was the first time two different Vintages were produced in the same year; both Messias and Quinta do Cachão.

The tasting was held on May 4 and we were 15 participants in the tasting, including 4 old members. The tasting was semi-blind i.e. we knew which wines participated in each Flight but not what we had in each glass. We had 2 Flights.

First flight:

Second flight:

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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