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A tasting of 1980s, on Wednesday 20th October 2021, at the Boot & Flogger, arranged George G.

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• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1980 Fonseca;
• 1980 Taylor;
• 1980 Croft Quinta da Roêda;
• 1980 Sandeman;
• 1980 Offley;
• 1980 Burmester;
• 1980 Dow;
• 1980 Graham;
• 1980 Warre;
• 1980 Smith Woodhouse;
• 1980 Gould Campbell;
• 1980 Quinta do Noval Nacional;
• 1980 Niepoort;
• 1980 Cálem Quinta da Foz;
• Placemats (mentioned in issue 151; a revisit of the design of 02Mar2012);
• Planning and arrangements.

Great colour, a full rich garnet. Boiled sweets on the nose. On the palate full rich powerful raspberry - led port, quite dry, and excellent with a steak.

Reasonably dark red. Very nice Porty nose. In the mouth, lots of cherries. Longish-aftertaste. Very quaffable.

Mid to dark red. The nose was particularly enjoyable – almondy first, red fruit second. Palate was very fine, more almonds with dark cherries, which long continued on the aftertaste.

Dark cherry red colour, 60% opaque. A little similarity on the nose to the Warre, slightly soapy lavender - not too pleasant. A nice thickness to the texture, a hint of the soapiness from the nose amidst the generous redcurrant with a fabulous acidity highlighting the fruit. Slightly soapy tone to the lavender and redcurrant finish. A wine with a good length finish. 88/100. Drunk 20-Oct-21. Decanted 10½ hours.