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A Ragbag of Good Port, Monday 19 September 2011, at the Steak Exchange. Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1970 Martinez;
• 1970 Offley Boa Vista;
• 1970 Croft;
• 1996 Vesuvio;
• 1977 Niepoort;
• 1977 Warre;
• 1991 Croft;
• 1991 Morgan;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Placemats.

Horrible smell - blackberries smelling more like rotting cabbages. Taste similar. Others liked(?) and felt was potential future stunner; my worst of the night for current drinking (to the extent I gave my glass away). Bad.

ruby red with dark centre.
to begin many blackberries.
big tannins,concentrated,pulpy,to many acidity.
no balance,long finish.
+12h cherries,blackberries,and little dark chocolade.
so young.
+24h nose better and better,blackberries,blackcurrants,licorice,no balance,big tannins and more alcoholic.long alcoholic finish.
simply too young.
Ps;sorry for bad english
color here;http://www.winelegends.net/43001.html

90% opaque; deep red in colour, solid rim. Blackcurrants on the nose, subdued but distinct. Restrained entry, dry tannins showing strongly, subdued mid-palate fruit. Big and mouthfilling presence. Hot aftertaste, preceding a big dry-blackcurrant finish of good length. Restrained - perhaps a little closed - but with lots of potential. 90/100.

Very dark. Dull nose. Big in the mouth with quite sharp citrus flavours in the entry. A tannic monster that is still asleep.

This was the "biggest" wine on the table by quite a stretch.