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As part of the plan to drink JDAW’s US-located port, a tasting of Taylor, Fonseca, Warre was held on Saturday 18th April 2009 at Petite Abeille, 401 East 20th Street at First Avenue, NY 10010-7501.

Links:

• Review of evening as a whole;
• 1948 Taylor;
• 1963 Taylor;
• 1966 Taylor;
• 1966 Fonseca;
• 1966 Warre;
• 1970 Fonseca;
• 1977 Taylor;
• 1977 Fonseca;
• 1977 Warre;
• 1985 Fonseca;
• 1985 Warre;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Placemats.

This thread is to hold tasting notes and comments on the Fonseca 1977.

Decanter 14:20. Translucent mid-red tinged with brown. Looking fine. Cranberries to taste.

F77: Very translucent, but dark red. Nosing of deli meat (rather like the ’70), and pepper. Lovely, but much lighter than it should have been, and far lighter than the F77 at the F-Plan.

Very disappointed with this bottle.

Baked cinnamon and slight crushed pepper on the nose. slightly muted.

Med to light milky mouth feel with baked fruit and a slight spicy root vegetable with a slightly bitter finish.

89.

Ah the bottle variation struck on this one...sorry to hear.

Agh!! I can't stand this as the top post.. someone post a new note for another wine!! =)

Unfortunately, this was a very disappointing bottle of the Fonseca 1977, far below the wonderful bottle we had in the summer of 2008. Light and brownish in colour with a chemical, paint-like nose. It tastes sweet and rather simple. There is some pretty fruit, but it is hardly a shadow of what it could have been. 85 points for this bottle.

Plum, tomatoes, salami and paprika started off the nose of this atypical F77. It's got this odd deli meat taste, with stewed fruit. The flavor hits you right up front then vanishes. Its good.... but weak. something of an off bottle, but i'm not quite sure what's happened to it. 90.