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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.

2001 Taylor LBV, filtered, bottled 2007. Decanted just before tasting started, with no sediment. The lightest of the 2001s, but still darker than any of the older LBVs. Nosing of — wait — eucalyptus? The Taylor eucalyptus! “Vargellas-like†, I wrote. But a rough edge to it. Taste was terrible, overwhelmed by the roughness. Hopes that it would improve through the evening were, alas, unmet.