Vintage Port Dinner – Manchester Tennis and Racquet's Club
Every year I am invited to lead a Port dinner at Manchester’s oldest sporting club. Some of the wines come form club stock and members also generously bring their own bottles to share. My contribution was a bottle of Croft 1963 which looked good on paper but proved to be a letdown in the glass. We tasted, then drank, some outstanding wines. My notes are a bit sketchy given all the debate and conversation going on but the following are written up in the order they were presented: