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Derek in Paris, chez Julian: day 2, Saturday 12th September 2009.

• Dow 1960;
• Dow 1977;
• Croft 1963;
• Graham 1980;
• Smith Woodhouse Madalena 1988;
• Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo 1997.

Team tasting note.

D+1hr: dark red, 80% opaque. Nose: plums. To taste big plummy fruit, and heat. Very sweet. Wait: 10 years, or at least 12 hours. (It’ll probably be 6 hours for us.)

Good to finally see reports of a good bottle of this again. I began to think that all bottles were either corked or overly developed.

More links:

• Graham 1977;
• Croft 1977;
• Rozès 1997.