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An Emergency, at the Boot & Flogger, on Monday 21^st September 2015. Just four of us: JDAW, DRT, THRA, and SCD (who had started his introduction thread only the day before).

Links:

• Review of evening as a whole;
• 1950 Quinta do Noval (THRA);
• 1970 Dow (DRT);
• 1994 Quinta do Vesuvio (SCD);
• 1985 Churchill (JDAW ‘A’);
• 1994 Tesco (JDAW ‘B’);
• 1989 Château Batailley (brought by DRT);
• Planning and arrangements;
• Placemats (and parameters by which made).

This as my contribution to the fantastic evening. Every time I have had the V94 I feel that I have enjoyed the port before it's prime but enjoy it I did. It had a wonderful deep colouring, with a thinning rim. Bold berry fruits and a long smooth finish. I am a huge fine of this port and it didn't disappoint me, and seemed to be enjoyed by all. I am afraid I hadn't read the thread about the bottle numbers until after the evening and didn't capture it. Maybe one of my companions did?

V94. Red with a hint of purple, 80% opaque. Big port, youthful—too young—Port, of mid-sweetness with lots of berries. My guess was worse than wrong: it was obviously wrong before we were told the answer. And we should have known.