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A horizontal of 1994 and a G83 were tasted at Bordeaux Index, 10 Hatton Garden EC1N 8AH on Tuesday 4^th March 2014, in the presence of Richard Mayson, as arranged by Michael Schuster of MichaelSchusterWine.com.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1994 Quinta do Crasto (#1);
• 1994 Smith Woodhouse (#2);
• 1994 Gould Campbell (#3);
• 1994 Ramos Pinto (#4);
• 1994 Martinez Quinta da Eira Velha (#5);
• 1994 Martinez (#6);
• 1994 Niepoort (#7);
• 1994 Quinta do Noval (#8);
• 1994 Quinta do Vesuvio (#9);
• 1994 Dow (#10);
• 1994 Warre (#11);
• 1994 Graham (#12);
• 1994 Fonseca (#13);
• 1994 Taylor (#14);
• 1983 Graham;
• Arrangements on MichaelSchusterWine.com;
• Arrangements on ThePortForum.com.

Ni94. Oh dear. The second palest, with a horrible nose, rather like burnt plastic. Not tasted.

70 % opacity, paler brown, a little cloudy, not much by way of leg. Nose giving very little, but what was there was not promising. Sharp and acidic, really not good, VA.

Went back after 1 hour, confirmed as totally awful, both nose and mouth.

Incidentally, Richard M suggested anyone with cases of Ni94 may want to check them, so perhaps this is not a one-off.

flash_uk wrote:Incidentally, Richard M suggested anyone with cases of Ni94 may want to check them, so perhaps this is not a one-off.

If they are in bond, i wouldn't even bother checking them - just sell...

As i think CMAG previously observed, it is telling that the 94, 85 and 97 are not mentioned in the list of VPs on the Niepoort app / website

Horrible.

Oh dear. I have 3 bottles of this. Any takers?

24 hour decant. 65-70% dark orange colour. All I smelt was varnish. Very acidic, very bitter. Unpleasant.

Horribly wrecked by VA. Not rated.