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On Wednesday 26^th November 2014 we held a vertical tasting of Martinez vintage ports from 1922-1997,
located in the brasserie room at Davy's at Woolgate

Links:

• Review of the event as a whole;
• 1922 Martinez;
• 1927 Martinez;
• 1934 Martinez;
• 1948 Martinez;
• 1955 Martinez;
• 1958 Martinez;
• 1960 Martinez;
• 1963 Martinez;
• 1967 Martinez;
• 1970 Martinez;
• 1973 Martinez crusted;
• 1975 Martinez;
• 1982 Martinez;
• 1985 Martinez;
• 1987 Martinez;
• 1989 Martinez crusted;
• 1994 Martinez;
• 1997 Martinez;
• NV Andresen 40yr white;
• 1994 Churchill;
• 2007 Grifo Grande Reserva;
• 2007 Apedagas Grande Reserva;
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

Mz48. Red, 40% opaque. Nose very faint. Palate soft, zero fruit, more grape-pip bitterness. Not quite right, diagnosed by others as TCA.

This had a nasty nose and in the mouth fruit gave way very quickly to cardboard.

30% opacity, warm burnt orange. Bananas on the nose, plus wet cardboard and damp wood, TCA. In the mouth, hot and spiritous.

Deep red with rusty brown tone, 50%. Badly corked. NR.