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A bottle bought from and consumed in El Vino, Fleet Street. Deep red with a plummy tone, sfter on the rim; 95% opaque. Stewed strawberries on the nose, a swirl revealing bottle stink. Light entry, with red licorice fruit showing quickly. Sweet and flavoursome on the palate but a lightweight wine for a Graham - more elegance and finesse than power. The bottle stink tones lurk behind the powdery tannins. Sweet aniseed on the aftertaste and a finish of modest length - although this reappears unexpectedly as a nice sage flavour. This is drinking nicely now, and may well be at its peak. Pleasant enough sipping port. 87/100. Drunk 14 Feb 2012 after 5 hours decant.

At first this was quite open and fruity on the nose, but it quickly developed lots of stinky stuff, which is not consistent with my experience of this wine.

Quite evolved colour. Very sweet and approachable with damsons and some stewed fruits. Quite hot in the finish. A bad bottle?

I tasted this 24 hours later and it was rubbish. This was definitely a flawed bottle.

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Placemats
1977 Fonseca
1992 Taylor (half)
1997 Smith Woodhouse
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+24 hours - the same bottle at a different tasting!

Dull nose very drinkable, but quite short and one dimensional.

Organisation thread
2000 Quinta do Roriz
1992 Graham Malvedos
1988 Smith Woodhouse Madalena

G91: darkish red, 50% opaque. Nose had bottle stink. Good weight, heat late-palate, but the stinky nose was in the taste.

G91 on the second day, in different company, a ‟bright dark red”, 70% opaque. Nose had vegetables. To taste red cherries, some of the nose vegetation, plus plum. Despite nose, quite nice.

Only JGH did not have prior knowledge of what it was, and he mis-guessed 1985 Warre.

Voting was unanimous (by those present, JGH DRT JDAW): winner GM92; in second place the Rr00; third the G91 on its second day; unplaced SWM88.

Reddy-purple middle. Fades to the edge. Odd nose. Ramen noodles perhaps? Moderate red cherries. Some tannins. Short aftertaste. Something odd afterwards. Flawed?

JacobH wrote:Reddy-purple middle. Fades to the edge. Odd nose. Ramen noodles perhaps? Moderate red cherries. Some tannins. Short aftertaste. Something odd afterwards. Flawed?

It appears that this note was the 500th I’ve recorded in my port records