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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)

Not the regular bottling, but (i believe) a rather attractively bottled single quinta variant. A really good, elegant mature port i felt.

Won the WOTN voting at a canter - certainly not undeserved, but margin possibly aided by the consensus that a RO WOTN was too good an opportunity to turn down!

Thanks to THRA for providing, and for very generously offering up (and making good on) a prize bottle if it was correctly guessed.

THRA’s ROC70. Red-brown, medium translucency. To taste thin, somewhat oxidised, very very smooth, with oranges.

RAYC almost correctly chose RO70. I mis-guessed CR67. Others: CR64, Ni55, Cr60, O60, ?60.

Fully mature in colour: a light pink color. Muted nose. In the mouth, orange, caramel and light sugar. Very drinkable now. (Unexpectedly) excellent.