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Part of the Ferreira vertical in Manhattan on Friday 17th October 2008. Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1977 Ferreira;
• 1978 Ferreira;
• 1983 Ferreira Quinta do Seixo;
• 1985 Ferreira;
• 1995 Ferreira;
• 2000 Ferreira;
• 1996 Quinta de la Rosa;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Placemats.

1995 Ferreira: very purple. Nosing strongly of alcohol, flowers, and youthful black fruit. To taste young black fruit, rich plums, and blackcurrant. Fine, but too young.

Purple fruit with a candied currant backing. I thought it also smelled of soy milk and stinky roses.

Potent black and sweet red berries, currants, slight thinness on the body finishes with a sweet 25 second coffee and cherry mouth feel.