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Tasted at the Crusting Pipe on 3 April 2011, a pre-FG warm-up session.

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Review of the evening as a whole

2009 cask sample [RLC to confirm naming permitted]
1995 Vesuvio
1991 Quinta de la Rosa
1988 Dow Quinta do Bomfim
1985 Martinez
1985 Taylor
1978 Taylor Vargellas
1970 Ramos Pinto
1970 Royal Oporto quinta [Das Carvalhas] - t.b.c.
1963 Graham

2006 Niepoort Charme
2004 Crasto Vinha da Ponte

NV Tactical Nuclear Penguin

Planning and arrangements
Paperwork (tasting mats, note sheets and bottle labels)

From 1/2 bottle purchased at Harrods, some guessed this was a colheita.

Not a hugely serious port, but the type of bottle that you'd be quite pleased to acquire at the airport in Oporto for the flight home.

And i'd have thought a very good pop and pour candidate, given its relative maturity.

A half bottle of DB88. Red-brown, 30% opaque. Nose of aniseed and grass/herb. The taste included a rush of mid-palate heat.

No guesses recorded.