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A fantastic Lunch, on Sunday 15^th February 2015, at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, Chris Doty providing the bottles blind.

This is bottle II, later revealed to be 1983 Dow.

Links:

• Review of the lunch as a whole;
• 1983 Warre (‘I’);
• 1983 Dow (‘II’);
• 1983 Cockburn (‘III’);
• 1980 Gould Campbell (half, ‘IV’);
• 1980 Gould Campbell (half, ‘V’);
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

D83. Lovely edge-of-mature red, maybe 60% opaque. Palate, I wrote, was “Soft red fruit. Mouth-filling red cherry. Lovely 1985ish bright freshness”. Except that it wasn’t 1985ish.

I think you can have a fraction of a point for 1985-ish, if you meant it in the sense that it was 1985 +/- 2 years