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With Andy Velebil visiting from California, it would have been rude not to. So we did, in The Bung Hole, on Tuesday 8^th October 2013.

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• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1931 Taylor Pinhão (CMAG);
• 1935 Cálem (THRA);
• 1970 Graham (DRT);
• 1970 Taylor (JDAW);
• 1970 Croft (PW);
• 1970 Martinez (AHB);
• 1970 Warre (ADV);
• 1970 Cockburn (IDJ);
• 1970 Quarles Harris (RAYC);
• 1977 Fonseca (CPR);
• Placemats (and parameters by which made);
• Planning and arrangements.

G70, decanted 12:45. Fantastic colour, dark red, 60% opaque. Taste starts with spice, no, white pepper, and is then very sweet. Big luscious fruit. Some claimed it was slightly corked, but too slightly for me. Excellent juice.

Is DRT bringing a G70 from a different shipper bottler¹ to every tasting? Interesting.

Notes
1. Corrected by my personal port mentor. Thank you.

Deep red colour, some bricking in the centre; 80% opaque. Just a little gentle heat on the nose, with some soft applemint. Sweet and balanced entry bringing generous sweet fruit with a core of acidity and still some gentle tannin. Thick texture. Gentle white pepper and hawthorn on the aftertaste before a very long hawthorn finish. 90/100