1991 de la Rosa

[jdaw1]

A horizontal of 1991s, some Vintage, some Single-Quinta, on Monday 9^th December 2019, at The Boot & Flogger, as arranged by GEAG.

Links:

• Review of the event as a whole;
• Tasting notes:
  • Dow;
  • Graham;
  • Warre;
  • Quinta do Vesuvio;
  • Smith Woodhouse;
  • Gould Campbell;
  • Cockburn;
  • Cockburn Quinta dos Canais;
  • Taylor Quinta de Vargellas;
  • Fonseca Guimaraens;
  • Croft;
  • Morgan;
  • Quinta do Noval;
  • Quinta do Noval Nacional;
  • Quinta de la Rosa;
  • Niepoort;
• Placemats (and in the list of placemats);
• Planning and arrangements.

[jdaw1]

Rs91. Dark red, 65% opaque. No nose. Minerality and sweetness, soft plum, with structure. Good size. Liked.

[winesecretary]

Dark red, 70% opaque. Quite dumb on the nose. Full and rich in the mouth, but well structured. Very nice wine, needing more time. #3 WOTN

[nac]

Still quite deep colour; not much on the nose, but much more developed in the mouth, with good balance, medium tannin and plenty of fruit still.
Very good - my WOTN.

[NickA]

A really nice spot today. In the red fruit with some rounded development and overall sense of balance and good persistence. Lots of pleasure in this one.

I don't have confidence to vote based on what might happen in years to come so go for pleasure on the night. And for this bottle also surprised me by outperforming its status and allowed this sway my vote. Hence my WOTN.