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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.

Links:

• 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.

W70, decanted 14:00. Dark red, 50% opaque. Nose a mite closed. Taste big, unctuous, some heat, and sticky sweet red fruit. Big and full. Grade-A port.

‟Jeeves! Are we really down to the last three pipes of Warre 1970? Grandpa was so mean.”

Oporto bottled. Mid-red, mature in appearance; 60% opaque. An unpleasant plastic edge to the nose, not attractive. Plastic red fruit on the palate, like wax coated paper sweet wrappers. Some slight milk chocolate on the finish. Simple palate, probably a spoiled bottle; certainly not typical of the way Warre 1970 should show.