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Daniel declared that there would be an ‘Emergency’ tasting at the Boot & Flogger on Tuesday 21^st July 2015. We obeyed.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1970 Fonseca (DJ);
• 1980 Taylor (JDAW);
• 1982 Kopke São Luiz (AHB);
• 1977 Gould Campbell (CPR);
• 1970 Cockburn (IDJ);
• 1977 Graham (MPM1);
• Graham crusted bottled 1998 (MPM2);
• 1994 Kopke († = CPR2);
• The placemats (and the parameters by which made);
• Planning and arrangements.

Graham crusted bot. 1998, aka MPM2, decanted three days before. Not really liked, but no note taken.

I was meant to recognise this. Bizarrely, Mike thought that I had experience of a crusted port that had been decanted more than 12 hours previously.

This was guessed by me as Graham's Crusted from its rather stewed nose. I did not like.

Dark red, slightly browning and with an opaque centre. Stewed fruit on the nose, with toffee apples and a shade of rhubarb. A modest entry with a medium body. Good sweet fruit on the late palate, stewed but pleasant. Gentle tannins lift the palate and give a dry aftertaste with a lingering finish. This is decent, sweet, everyday port. Served blind this was guessed to be Taylor 2003 LBV. 85/100.