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We tasted some bottles of Taylor and its relatives, in The Bung Hole, on Friday 22nd March 2013.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1920 Taylor;
• 1924 Taylor;
• 1927 Taylor;
• 1935 Taylor;
• 1945 Taylor;
• 1948 Taylor;
• 1950 Taylor Special Quinta;
• 1955 Taylor;
• 1960 Taylor;
• 1963 Taylor;
• 1965 Taylor Quinta de Vargellas;
• 1966 Taylor;
• 1970 Taylor;
• 1970 Taylor Quinta de Vargellas;
• 1976 Taylor Quinta de Vargellas;
• 1977 Taylor;
• 1980 Taylor;
• 1983 Taylor;
• 1985 Taylor;
• 1986 Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita;
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

Decanted 11am.

T85: red red pink, 70% opaque. Nose rather closed. Taste soft, mid-weight, with cranberries. Good port, but not as good as a good bottle of T85.

Deep red, firm rim; 45% opaque. Lovely perfumed nose, with lots of fruit - very attractive. Medium bodied mid-palate revealing a restrained fruitiness with a cigar ash undertone and very gentle tannins. Some restrained heat on the aftertaste, followed by a long finish of dried blueberries - and tannins which show at the end of the finish. 87/100. 22-Mar-13. Decanted 7 hours.