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LBV tasting, in Brooklyn chez Jay, Thursday 8th May 2008. Links:

• Arrangements;
• Placemats;
• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1982 Warre LBV;
• 1990 Churchill LBV;
• 1992 Niepoort LBV;
• 1994 Rozès LBV;
• 2001 Dow LBV;
• 2001 Fonseca LBV;
• 2001 Javali LBV;
• 2001 Taylor LBV.

Fonseca 2001 LBV, unfiltered, bottled 2007. Decanted 8am no sediment. Dark red colour—quite excellent really—and birightly clear. Jeff claimed that it has a “Bin 27 nose†, reminding us of Oscar:

• Cecily: Do you suggest Miss Fairfax, that I entrapped Ernest into an engagement? How dare you? This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
  Gwendolen: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

To taste cloying and rough. JG: “Really sucks†. JG: “Bin 27 has more flavour†.

Hated.