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Tasted at Griff's farewell dinner on Tuesday 4 June 2012

• Review of the evening as a whole
• 1959 Niepoort Colheita
• 1960 believed Sandeman
• 1970 Dalva
• 1970 Cockburn
• 1970 Fonseca
• 1970 Berry's own selection
• 1970 Niepoort
• 1977 Delaforce
• 1985 Warre
• 2011 Quevedo
• 2004 Noon Solaire
• 2004 Noon VP
• Organisation thread
• Placemats

so mind numbingly good, it left rayc with two .s

LOL!

From a bottle sent to AHB by Oscar.

Fabulous. Beautiful lavendar and violets on the nose. Very intense on the palate, but everything feels in balance - huge wine but without any roughness or harshness at this stage. More savoury and mineral than some of the other 2011 offerings? Very impressive, and certainly up there in the very top tier of the vintage on the basis of what i have tried so far.

Alas, i tasted this last in the evening - far too late - and would love to revisit this with a fresher palate and less alcohol/steak/cheese inside me.

RAYC wrote:less alcohol/steak/cheese inside me.

Error: 500 - command not understood

Deep magenta, narrow transparent rim. Powerful fruit nose with mint and menthol showing powerfully. Sweet fruit entry, very fruit forward. Powerful tannins on the mid-palate, which soften slowly. Great balance, great power. Huge aftertaste; big and long lasting finish driven by black chocolate. Wow, this is good! 95-97.

Qv11: full squid-ink colour. Nose had leather and smoke. Taste full of cloying dry tannins. Massive structure. Very long. This is good at peak it will be excellent, but will it reach that peak in my lifetime?

jdaw1 wrote:Qv11: full squid-ink colour. Nose had leather and smoke. Taste full of cloying dry tannins. Massive structure. Very long. This is good at peak it will be excellent, but will it reach that peak in my lifetime?

if you run out because you're tasting them through the years.

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