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On Tuesday 26th March 2024, at The Boot & flogger, we tasted 1994s.

• Review of the evening as a whole;
  • 1994 Croft;
  • 1994 Taylor;
  • 1994 Fonseca;
  • 1994 Tesco;
  • 1994 Martinez;
  • 1994 Warre;
  • 1994 Dow;
  • 1994 Graham;
  • 1994 Quinta do Vesuvio;
  • 1994 Cockburn;
  • 1994 Kopke;
  • 1994 Quinta do Noval;
  • 1994 Burmester;
  • 1994 Cálem;
  • 1994 Royal Oporto;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Placemats;
• Food order.

B94: red pink brown, 70% opaque. Light, pleasant, some perfume. Too light.

40% & very light coloured. Pleasant, light nose still showing some fruit. Palate similar to nose. OK. 5/7.

Mature copper-red colour, 60% opaque. Bright nose with rounded mature fruit; very expressive with a little sous-bois. Gentle, mature fruit on the palate. Mid-weight and slow to reveal what it has to show but the wine steadily builds up to be a wonderful mouthful of a berry-juice reduction. The aftertaste is full of cedar and pine and has a great length finish. Really rather lovely. 93/100.

I love it when I have a totally different view of a wine than everyone else!