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TN: Berry Brothers & Rudd 1966

The Deeper Underground 1966 Horizontal, held at the Crusting Pipe, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8RD, on Monday 28 January 2008.

Links:

• Planning and arrangements: pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
• Review of the evening as a whole;
• TN: Adam 1966;
• TN: Avery 1966;
• TN: Croft 1966;
• TN: Delaforce 1966;
• TN: Dow 1966;
• TN: Fonseca 1966;
• TN: Graham 1966;
• TN: Morgan 1966;
• TN: Noval 1966;
• TN: Noval Nacional 1966;
• TN: Offley Boa Vista 1966;
• TN: Robertson’s Rebello Valente 1966;
• TN: Taylor 1966;
• TN: Warre 1966;
• TN: Berry Brothers & Rudd 1966;
• Placemats and ‘holding bay’ which was later implemented as PrePour.

Purchased by JDAW for ≈£45 in 2002. BBR told JDAW that BBR’s 1966 was Warre. DRT quotes Broadbent as saying “Shipped via Percy Fox & Co, then Warre’s agents†.

Deeper in colour than the Warre '66 alongside this glass. Some alcohol coming through on the nose carrying with it scents of fresh cut grass, coffee grindings and muscvado sugar. A quiet and gentle entry carresses the tongue before delivering redcurrants and cranberries sweetened with light syrup. A decent but not memorable (in the context of the wines shown with this) aftertaste. Still plenty of mileage for this very adequate port. 3/3 or 88/100. Decanted for 4 hours and drunk on 28/1/08.

As AHB has already said this was considerably darker than the "real" Warre 66 sitting beside it. I rated this 7th out of 14. AHB had it at 10th.

My TN says "That is really nice!"

Thank you to Jdaw for this very interesting contribution to the line-up.

5th best still very good no sign of waning