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A few of us gathered at the usual place to sample some port.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1960 Quinta de la Rosa;
• 1972 Sandeman LBV;
• 1987 Calem Foz;
• 1987 Croft Roeda;
• 1990 Graham Malvedos;
• 1991 Taylor Vargellas;
• 1992 Quinta de la Rosa;
• 1992 Quinta do Passadouro;
• 2004 Croft LBV;
• 2013 Quinta do Vesuvio;
• Food order;
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

95% opacity, dark purple. Blackcurrant on the nose. Young, tannic, dark red fruit, plums. I guessed V05.

V13, brought by AHB, known as ‘€’. Squid ink, 100% opaque. Palate noted as “Absolutely chocca concrete”. Which, seventeen months later, I don’t wholly understand.