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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 port provided my single point for the evening, as I guessed at a Tesco 97, so thank you to Julian for bringing it along to help my cause. It had a very vanillary nose and struggled against the other wines of the evening. It was also noted to have had a very new cork. I have previously enjoyed a bottle or two of the Tesco 94 with much more satisfaction.

My Tesco was switching from the 1994 to the 1997, so three of the older vintage were bought, and brought as a second bottle for entertainment. It failed to entertain. Dark red, 90% opaque. Vanilla on nose; undescribed unpleasantness in glass.

Doggett wrote:This port provided my single point for the evening, as I guessed at a Tesco 97

Its best feature.