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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.

Decanted 12.30ish. Level in neck, cork out in 1. Seems promising.

QH70. Red-brown, 40% opaque. Honey, and raspberries. Lovely flavour, mid weight, gentle heat mid palate. DRT rightly said ‟sweet”. Just in my voting zone, at a ½ point.

Warm brick-red colour, light rim; 40% opaque. Ripe, sweet fruit on the nose that shows nicely on the nose. Balanced entry, lightweight but with gentle sweet fruit coming through on the mid-palate gentle tannins. Nice elegance to this wine; a lovely fruit aftertaste and a finish which is lingering and very refined. Very nice port. 91/100.