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Part of The 1970 Horizontal (the definite article being most appropriate all hail organiser Axel P), in The RAF Club, 128 Piccadilly, London W1J 7PY, on Friday 30th January 2009.

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• Review of the tasting as a whole;
• Placemats;
• Afternoon session:
  • ♣ Unknown or Baixa Corgo:
    • J. H. Andresen 1970;
    • Butler Nephew 1970;
    • da Silva 1970;
    • Dalva 1970;
    • González Byass 1970;
  • ♦ Bank of the Douro in Cima Corgo:
    • Barros 1970;
    • Kopke 1970;
    • Robertson’s Rebello Valente 1970;
    • Royal Oporto 1970;
  • ♥ Rios Torto and Roncão Valleys:
    • Borges & Irmão 1970;
    • Delaforce 1970;
    • Quinta do Sibio 1970;
  • â™  Rio Pinhão Valley:
    • Cálem 1970;
    • Cálem Quinta da Foz 1970;
    • Hutcheson 1970;
    • Martinez 1970;
  • ”¡ Douro Superior:
    • Messias 1970;
• Evening session:
  • ♦ Bank of the Douro in Cima Corgo:
    • Croft 1970;
    • Dow 1970;
    • Graham’s 1970;
    • Offley Boa Vista 1970;
  • ♥ Rios Torto and Roncão Valleys:
    • Morgan 1970;
    • Quarles Harris 1970;
    • Ramos-Pinto 1970;
    • Sandeman 1970;
    • Smith Woodhouse 1970;
  • â™  Rio Pinhão Valley:
    • Fonseca 1970;
    • Gould Campbell 1970;
    • Niepoort 1970;
    • Quinta do Noval 1970;
    • Quinta do Noval Nacional 1970;
    • Warre 1970;
  • ”¡ Douro Superior:
    • Cockburn 1970;
    • Ferreira 1970;
    • Taylor 1970;
• Announcement and some planning.

My notes from this session were lost. I recall that this wine had a flaw - VA or corked? It had the clour, structure and dryness that one would expect but the flaw could not be overcome by those things.

1970 Dow: lovely red, 80% opaque. Dull nose, widely and rightly described as TCA. To taste heat at the start, then grew in the mouth. Very long and large in weight, and sweet for a Dow. Second best of this ♦ flight (Bank of the Douro in Cima Corgo: Cr, D, G, OBV), second to the Croft.

jdaw1 wrote: grew in the mouth.

I do believe the actual description from JDAW on the night was: "if you hold it in your mouth it will get bigger" :sniggericon: