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Medium purple with a slight bricking color around the edges.

This was a bad wine for me. Heavy Volatile Acidity smell. The gasoline smell just killed it for me. There was a hint of underlying tobacco smell.

Tasted bitter cocoa, tobacco, but the VA just permeated on my palate and made this a very unenjoyable wine.

Rating withheld.

Vesuvio 1991, 30 hours decanted. Quite opaque, no blue, no purple, no brown: just red. Others had better comments on the smell: “VA smell† (JG); “nasal snuff† (ED); “heavier smell than other Vesuvios† (FF). Very flawed; not liked.

Hey Julian,

Reposted link from Spectator about VA

http://forums.winespectator.com/eve/for ... /202107924

Also see review of the evening as a whole, and other tasting notes:

• Vesuvio 1990;
• Vesuvio 1991;
• Vesuvio 1994;
• Vesuvio 1995;
• Churchill 1994;
• Croft 1994;
• Duff Gordon 1994;
• Ramos Pinto Quinta de Ervamoira 1994.

I can testify that this was flawed. I don't think that I have ever found VA on a Vesuvio. Hopefully your bottle was a one-off.

Alex

Julian - you may use your admin rights to read and then delete this post.

Your edit above was made just in time. The transgression did not go unnoticed, but will now be overlooked by all others (!)

Alex

I had what was in origin an error in word order: in writing “Others’ comments were better†, the post above, before being edited, said

jdaw1 originally wrote:Others’ had better comments on the smell:

Alex noticed, but I repaired before he commented. Close call!