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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.

T70, decanted 12:30. Red, 50% opaque. Initially, and disappointingly, nosed strongly of mothballs, with taste to match. Two hours in the glass worked wonders, leaving a pleasant port with hints of pears and mint.

Modest red, pale centre; 50% opaque. Horrible nose, full of moth balls. Moth balls all over the palate. Revolting, probably the result of bacterial spoiling. Perhaps I made a mistake in not going back to this a few hours later.