Vintage Port at the Manchester Tennis and Racquets Club
The Victorian club dining room at the MTRC is the setting for an annual tasting of vintage Ports with wines from the club stock as well as from member’s own cellars. After some outstanding wines at previous dinners, this year’s selection proved to be rather a mixed bag with two promising wines turning out to be rather a disappointment. However there were two wines that I had never tasted before which out-performed their more illustrious peers. The following wines are presented in the order that they were tasted:
Fonseca 1977 ****/*****