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you will probably find stephen that it will be a "non vintage" even though it has a date on it commemorating an occasion
what it means is that it will be a tawny port in which it has already been barrel aged and then fortified and the contents therein will be inert and thus no further ageing occurs as the winery has already aged it in barrel rather than in glass
some of these commemorative tawnies have to me represented fantastic experiences for their meagre cost at the time, i have had obscene amounts of the 1980's horsey ports representing all of the countries carnival winners
the most famous of the aussie tawnies of course was the penfolds grandfather port and the old seppelt parra......... absolutely marvelous drinks and the parra particularly was "vintage dated" which was in itself rather meaningless because whether you had one from the late sixties to one from the late eighties, well, they were all basically still a twenty year old tawnie
pat
incidentally in the 80's i picked up a bottle of 1945 penfolds grandfather tawnie
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