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On Thursday 27th October 2011, at The Crusting Pipe, StevieCage and RonnieRoots held a tasting with AHB, jdaw1 and RAYC.

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Review of the evening as a whole
1985 Graham (bottle 1)
1985 Graham (bottle 2)
1985 Fonseca
1983 Offley Boa Vista
1977 Niepoort
1970 Gould Campbell
1998 Dow quinta do Bomfim
Planning and arrangements

Group purchase from TCP. £85

Rich and dark, but slightly one-dimensional showing - not quite up to the standard of its peers at this tasting, and I'm sure the short decant did not help - particularly as this bottle felt young by comparison to the bottle tasted a few weeks ago and could really do with another 5-10 years in the cellar. I think I will leave the bottles I purchased from Davy's (@£32 off the retail list...) for a few years on the assumption that mine will be in similar condition. **(*) (85)

Deep red in colour, solid rim; 90% opaque. Hint of petrol on the nose, subdued fruit. Sweet and hollow on entry; fruit is reserved and the first impression is of the tannins, although these fade quickly to leave only the lightweight fruit. Hot aftertaste, then a lingering dry finish where the fruit finally shows through. A poor bottle, not showing as well as it could or should. 1 hour decant. Drunk 27 October 2011. 81/100.

O80, TCP: very dark, 80% opaque. Closed, with big dark fruit. Somebody suggested, concisely and accurately, a ‟green streak”. Little tannic structure. Ronnie thought that it will disintegrate.