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Within the regulation week of DRT’s 51st birthday, we (DRT, JDAW, IDJ, AHB, THRA, SCD, CPR, ARM, and TC) brought “a bottle of VP, blind or sighted” to the Boot and Flogger.

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• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1965 Krohn (CMAG from DRT, sighted);
• 1965 Fonseca Guimaraens (DRT, blind);
• 1970 Gonzalez Byass (JDAW, blind);
• 1970 Quinta do Noval (IDJ, blind);
• Unknown, claimed to be SW47 (AHB, blind);
• 1961 Graham Malvedos (THRA, blind);
• 1965 Fonseca Guimaraens (SCD, blind);
• 1970 Graham (CPR, blind);
• 1987 Taylor Vargellas (ARM, blind);
• 1965 Krohn (TC, blind);
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

Copper orange tone, 50% opaque. Sweet fruit on the nose with lots of dusty cherries. Sweet fruit entry, mid-weight and well balanced even if a little restrained. The mid-palate being perfectly balanced, An aftertaste of slightly bitter fruit with a good length. Served blind this was guessed to be Sandeman 1970. 86/100.

GB70. Lovely red, 30% opaque. Nose showing red fruit, including cherry, and structure. Nose perfectly mature. Palate likewise, with some heat.