Cockburns '77

[hmmm_tea]

Godfrey was off to do a port tasting at UCL this evening (have had a lot of port sitting around the office for the past few days as we've got a tasting at work next week too...).

We decanted a couple of the vintages in the prep room before he left (and sampled them too of course).

Included in his line up for the evening was Cockburns 1977. For a wine that technically doesn't exist, it was very nice...

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Doesn't exist? Imaginary wine?

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

Although Cockburns made a 77 vintage, they didn't declare it, so legally it doesn't exist and they certainly can't sell it.

[(Anonymous)]

grumble grumble, meh meh. Had to make do with ULU's finest Strongbow this evening :(

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Why does that happen?

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

The port houses (individually) decide when the wine is about 2 years whether it is good enough to be a vintage or whether they'll just use the wine for blending, etc. There's normally about 3 vintages in every 10 years on average.

In '77 Cockburns didn't declare and most of it went for blending. They did bottle about a thousand bottles for personal consumption though...