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  • 1873 Schofield;
  • 1896 Elviro Garcia ‘Refreshed’ tawny;
  • 1932 Butler Nephew;
  • 1938 Hooper;
  • 1942 Hooper;
  • 1944 Hooper colheita;
  • 1947 Barros colheita;
  • 1952 Barros colheita;
  • Infantado Vintage Character, bottled October 1996.

Look: Cloudy and almost orange. Looks much more like a tawny than a VP to me.

Nose: Dying tawny. Something minty that Julian described as Spearmint. I lean more toward Eucalyptus but without the menthol or depth that Eucalyptus usually possesses.

Taste: Madeira-like, but nicely smooth. Complex flavors, but not ones I normally associate with Port

Very pale, cloudy, and even looking fragile. Nosing strongly of sugar, and mint. Glenn E. and I discussed the mint for a awhile, he seeming to prefer the description eucalyptus, but I thought mint. To taste candy-floss (unflavoured), and spearmint. Glenn E.’s ‟Complex flavours, but not ones I normally associate with Port” is entirely correct. ‟It’s life, captain. But not as we know it.”