1991 Dow

[jdaw1]

A horizontal of 1991s, some Vintage, some Single-Quinta, on Monday 9^th December 2019, at The Boot & Flogger, as arranged by GEAG.

Links:

• Review of the event as a whole;
• Tasting notes:
  • Dow;
  • Graham;
  • Warre;
  • Quinta do Vesuvio;
  • Smith Woodhouse;
  • Gould Campbell;
  • Cockburn;
  • Cockburn Quinta dos Canais;
  • Taylor Quinta de Vargellas;
  • Fonseca Guimaraens;
  • Croft;
  • Morgan;
  • Quinta do Noval;
  • Quinta do Noval Nacional;
  • Quinta de la Rosa;
  • Niepoort;
• Placemats (and in the list of placemats);
• Planning and arrangements.

[winesecretary]

Opened 1630 on 08/12/19, decanted 1930. The wine very clean, only the last tablespoon needing to be set aside with a thick sediment that otherwise stayed in the bottle. The last tablespoon promising violets.

[jdaw1]

D91. Glorious red, 50% opaque. Lovely red cherry, mid weight, heat. Also a dry spice behind. Liked, but lighter and overdeveloped for its twenty-eight years.

[winesecretary]

Red rather than dark, pale at rim. The violets from decanting are gone, now quite spirity on the nose. Red fruits on the palate. I am not wholly convinced it will age gracefully, but it is quite pleasant. Equal #4 WOTN on the night of the horizontal - with the Noval Nacional, which tells you a bit about both.

[nac]

Fairly light in colour, nice sweetness and plenty of fruit on the nose. Liked it less in the mouth with acid out of balance and little tannin left.