1970 Borges

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benread
Niepoort 1977
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1970 Borges and Irmao

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Part of the 30th September 2008 offline at TCP.

This was decanted about 20 hours ahead of consumption. It was a pale ruby colour and I seem to recall saying at the time it felt like it "danced down my throat"! There was a lot of very fine sediment despite decanting being through a coffee filter. It probably would have benefitted from a second decanting.

Most interesting was the lead tag around its neck - somewhat corroded but clearly marked 1970 but not in any way branded.

A very enjoyable wine.
Ben
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Vintage 1970 and now proud owner of my first ever 'half-century'!
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Re: 1970 Borges & Irmao

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Feel free to post a picture of the exciting neck tag.
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Re: 1970 Borges & Irmao

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jdaw1 wrote:Feel free to post a picture of the exciting neck tag.
Without seeing the bottle described above, I assume it is the same tag as on the below link:
http://verzamelen.marktplaats.nl/flesse ... otoGallery
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Re: 1970 Borges & Irmao

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smisse wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:Feel free to post a picture of the exciting neck tag.
Without seeing the bottle described above, I assume it is the same tag as on the below link:
http://verzamelen.marktplaats.nl/flesse ... otoGallery
It was exactly like that.
Ben
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Vintage 1970 and now proud owner of my first ever 'half-century'!
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