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The night after the Niepoort tasting with Nick Delaforce, friends old and new met with Nick to drink some bottles that they brought. The venue was the Morning Star pub, Pottinger's Entry, Belfast, who found us about 80 glasses and served us with fine steaks.

Preview of the placemats:

And link to the full PDF.

The ports:

• 1960 Taylor (low fill) (Justin K)
• 1960 Taylor (high fill) (Justin K)
• 1967 Cockburn (Daniel J)
• 1970 Fonseca (Derek T)
• 1970 Gonzalez Byass (Julian W)
• 1977 Taylor (Alastair B)
• 1980 Niepoort (Nick D)

With dinner, we had some wine:

• 1988 Château d'Angludet (Derek T)
• 1983 Château Pontet-Canet (Justin K)
• 2010 Niepoort Redoma Tinto
• 2011 Niepoort Drink Me Tinto

lozenge, section, dagger and doubledagger were included to allow us to enjoy leftovers from the night before: Niepoort 2001 Colheita, 1998 LBV, Senior Tawny, 2000 Vintage (from half bottle), and 2011 Vintage.

F70 - 23
GB70 - 15
T60 (high fill) - 8
T60 (low fill) - 4