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Starter - scotch egg

Main - chicken supreme and chips

Pudding - welsh rarebit

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Good light garnet. Nice start to the palate - good fruit. Rather acidic aftertaste.

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Pale red. Nose suggests a long way over the coffee-scented hill. Palate is revolting. No second sip.

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Very pale. Little on the nose. Palate is very pleasant stuff but not really discernible as vintage port.

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Light red, yellow rim. Light on the nose. Palate rather prettily red fruited. But not memorable.

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Cloudy reddish brown liquid. Nose revolting. Not tasted.

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Very pale rim but the colour is good in the centre. Palate is proper port with some mulled wine cinnamon and orange and milk chocolate notes. Still drinkable with considerable pleasure, but do not hold for the long term.

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] A deep rich red. Slightly acid note on the nose but promised well nevertheless. Palate is slightly bitter and unbalanced but there’s is some real wine in there somewhere and not over the hill.

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Excellent rich red. Nose of summer pudding. Palate is lively and beautifully balanced with a sort of cranberry bakewell tart quality. I really like this and would actively seek it out.

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Cloudy appearance. Various shades from yellow to orange to brown. Smells like the effluent at the bottom of a food recycling bin after a warm week. Almost entrancingly unpleasant. Goblins might like it. Palate actually better than the nose, merely hor...

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] A good clear brick red. Nose a little clouded by VA. Palate has some kola kube and aniseed, slightly confected and a bit acrid. But drinkable, and thus the best Burmester I have ever had.

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Dark as any port of the whole line up. Nose has some licorice but is quite dumb. Palate a bit tough and sour but there’s some matiere there if you work for it. Possibly underdecanted on the night?

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Big dark red wine. Pale only at rim. Mose of poached SA plums. Palate welcomingly sweet and lush, but still with some firmness on the palate. Some lovely cherry stone late. Alive and well in well stored bottles. A pleasure to drink.

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Orange rim. Attractive if faded nose of candied citrus. Palate soft and rich and sweet but has a slightly odd bitter herbal note towards the finish. Nice warming after- note with some dried unsulphured apricot. Drinkable with some, but not a lot of, p...

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[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] A good rich clear red, pink rim. Nose distinctly stinky. Palate really quite vegetal, only residual fruit. A shame.

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A sample tasted on 13/10, kindly taken on the night. Fine colour, a clear light garnet. Nose got an ‘ooh Jesus no’. Wine sadly spoiled by VA and undrinkable (I had a sip and that was more than enough).

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Tasted 13/10/25 from a sample kindly drawn on the night. Bronze rim. Grubby nose without much fruit, assiduous swirling reveals some candied citrus fruit. Palate has some gentle red fruits with a hint of prune later. Long finish. Wine is completely resolved and needs no more time but good drinking n...

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Browning rim, red centre. Attractive nose. Palate is well fruited and attractive in a strawberries and cream sort of way. From Alex's side of the table, I think. Attractive but not stellar.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Attractive colour. Light pretty colour. Very dry indeed. Rather attractive pontefract cake note on the finish. From Julian's side of the table, I think. Attractive but not stellar.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. There were two samples labelled Ferreira. Identical to the first sample.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Pleasant port, perhaps somewhat elderly overall, but rather attractive darker fruit. Finish is good. Needs no more time.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Nice colour - bright red. Sweet cherry port with attractive tinned red fruit palate. Fully mature - perhaps missing a bit of freshness. Tangy aftertaste. Very pleasant.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Slightly cloudy but still red-orange rather than red. Cafe creme on nose. Palate is a bit harsh.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. There were two samples labelled Ferreira. Colour is light. Palate is pleasant but a little acrid.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Very dark wine. Big rich lovely nose. Huge palate of blackberry pie. Very long finish. Admirable wine. Admirable, admirable wine.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Lighter than perfect. Nose of star anise. Cherry drops and star anise on the palate. Attractive.

Definitely from Julian's side of the table - no TCA.

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Cloudy. Nose is a bit bitter- bonfire toffee. That's not right. Palate bitter. This one is from Julian's side of the table.

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Good colour. Nose 'as porty as a porty thing'. But a little bit light on nose and palate. Fizzy cola on the finish. Pleasant but not a super bottle of this often enjoyable wine.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Good honest looking mature port, slightly darker than the Graham. Nose a bit mute, or at least less concentrated than the Dow. Possibly a bit of rubber? Palate is positively lush but does have a sort of acrid note on the finish. Good port b...

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. A lovely mid garnet, looks mature but not over-mature. Cranberries on nose, palate is well fruited but very much the red currant spectrum, positively fresh, port. Acidity is definite. Very much to my taste.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Now indistinguishable in colour from the BBR. Nose possibly slightly fruitier than the BBR. Palate has nice raspberries but is softer than the BBR. Attractive, but I prefer the BBR tonight.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Red centre, pale rim. Spice and white pepper. Palate is very fruity. Soft. Attractive port. I have worked out that some, but not I think, of my samples are coming from the Alex B side of the table.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Darker than its sibling. Interesting nose of apple and blackberry crumble caught round the edges. Fruit is attractively tart with an almost Dubonnet note - a hint of herbal extract. Successful, but drier.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Colour is good. Sweet fruit on nose. Palate has sarsaparilla and red licorice. Thick texture. Fruit is delicious. Long finish. Good port.

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Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Red centre, pale rim, somewhat browning in between. Good clear wine. Nose of spirit and spice and red fruit. Palate sweet with some licorice. Fruit pastilles. Finishes quite short.

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I didn’t taste this bottle, but I have tasted bottles from the same cellar, and they are wonderful, streets ahead of any other Sandeman 1970 I have ever had. So I am not surprised this one was good.

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Thank you to Mike and to Julian for the many many hours of work that went into this. The most comprehensive tasting ever, surely, of 1970 VP and the most comprehensive tasting of 1970 VP ever, surely, that there will ever be.

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As jdaw1, on all counts. A necessary palate cleanser, after so many indifferent (or worse) ports.

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Brown, pale rim. Warm palate, but not really port.

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Dried oranges on nose. Nice cinnamon / star anise note. Palate congruent. I derived enjoyment from this.

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Reddish. paling rim. Palate of cranberries and almond. Alive, happily, but nothing like the league of the 1955.

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A genuine decent red port colour. Richly fruited palate. Good drinking.

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Orange rim, slightly cloudy. Orange palate. Well past doubtful best.

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Pale rim. Nose a bit hot. Palate rather pleasant, if a bit elderly.

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Nose pleasant. Real port but over the hill.

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A nice pale red. Nice rich palate. Good mouthfeel.

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Brownish red. Acrid nose. Soft palate. Nothing.

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Reddish brown. Palate of acrid cherries. Unnatural.

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nice reddish brown. Pleasant but apricot again. Hot finish.

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Reddish brown. Nose mute. Palate quite nice. Prunes. Cream. Good. Still drinking well on re-examination later. A point from me.

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