1988 Smith Woodhouse Madalena

[DRT]

Consumed at the Crusting Pipe on 16 May 2011.

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Croft 1970 (JDAW)
Smith Woodhouse Madalena 1988 (DRT)
Quevedo 20 Year Tawny (OJMQ)
Fonseca 1985 (CMAG)
Croft 1963 (RAYC)
Cockburn 1970 (THRA)
Gould Campbell 1977 (RAYC)
Taylor 1980 (Team)

My contribution to the evening. Decanted 10 hours. Some VA on the nose - not too much to be unpleasant. Chocolaty and thinner than other bottles of this that I have had. Not a good bottle.

[jdaw1]

SWM88. Red, 50% opaque. Nose: I thought corked. Generally I am not sensitive to TCA (though more than I was), but this was corked and increasingly so. To taste red fruit, burnt notes, the fruit very red and long.

[Axel P]

I did own a full case of this, watched it over the years and the alcohol never got integrated. One that I do not like

Axel