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A horizontal of 1983 (‟83@30”) at The Bung Hole.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1983 Feuerheerd;
• 1983 Niepoort;
• 1983 Kopke Quinta St. Luiz;
• 1983 Offley Boa Vista;
• 1983 Churchill Quinta da Água Alta;
• 1983 Cockburn;
• 1983 Warre;
• 1983 Dow;
• 1983 Wine Society;
• 1983 Gould Campbell;
• 1983 Fonseca;
• 1983 Taylor;
• 1983 Croft Quinta da Roeda;
• 1983 Real Vinicola;
• 2006 Vesuvio (magnum);
• Placemats (made by Daniel);
• Planning and arrangements.

RVi83. Not even slightly nasty. Full-on utterly nasty. Almost impressively so.

One sees in books, for wine becoming too old, the instruction ‟Drink up.” Not this: pour it away. Don’t even use it for cooking: down the sink it goes.

jdaw1 wrote:RVi83. Not even slightly nasty. Full-on utterly nasty. Almost impressively so.

One sees in books, for wine becoming too old, the instruction ‟Drink up.” Not this: pour it away. Don’t even use it for cooking: down the sink it goes.

And yet you didn't vote for it as WWOTN.
(This was hideous. The only good thing about it was that it was quite watery too.)

Not really sure how to describe this other than to say it really was as bad as stated above!

Pale red, 30% opaque. A vague hint of VA on the nose, little else. Light entry bringing little flavour - perhaps some rhubarb that comes with tannin and acidity with some vague fruit. Not much flavour at all. Some acidity on the aftertaste and some heat on the finish. Really a nothing port. 69/100.

69/100? That's a high 2:1! This port was a fail.

As I recall, 69 indicates a sub-average Port. Since there us so much Cruz Ruby made, one could hypothesize that it defines average. Or at least median. So this is worse than Cruz Ruby. I believe that counts as a fail.