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50 years ago, the 1966 vintage was born. A few of us gathered at The Boot & Flogger to discuss the vintage.

• Review of the event as a whole
• 1966 Smith Woodhouse
• 1966 Cockburn
• 1966 Gould Campbell
• 1966 Graham
• 1966 Dow
• 1966 Warre
• 1966 Taylor
• 1966 Fonseca
• 1966 Croft
• 1966 Cálem Foz
• 1966 Noval
• 1966 Sandeman
• 1966 Messias Cachão
• 1966 Offley
• 1966 Rebello Valente
• Food order
• Placemats
• Planning and arrangements

20% opacity, red-brown. An odd nose - I really struggled to describe it. In the mouth, again some oddness, quite an abrupt finish with some tawny-ish flavours present.

flash_uk wrote:An odd nose - I really struggled to describe it.

Mushrooms. Tony and I were puzzling over it and asked Alex; once he'd answered it was so obvious we couldn't believe we hadn't identified it ourselves. As usual.

Also, the first time at a TPF event where I have moved out of the way fast on instinct because I thought someone was going to throw up; but in fact it turned out to be because they had just taken a sip of the Messias and wanted to get to a spittoon very quickly! Others claimed it was drinkable, though the number of glasses left at the end of the night suggest perhaps less so; I didn't. Either faulty or horrible; rated poor/faulty.

From Messias. Burnished copper, 40% opaque. Fresh cut young mushrooms on the nose. Spoiled palate. A bad bottle. NR

MsC66. Red, 40% opaque. Palate light, with mint. Short length. Past best.