NV Graham Tawny 30YO (bottled 1999)

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Popped and poured.

Clear brown liquid with orange rim. Only the lower viscosity betrays to the eye that it is not madeira.

Smoke, oranges and bonfire toffee on the nose, with a substrate of herbs.

Warm palate of nuts and dark eucalyptus forest honey, judicious balancing acidity.

Delicious caramelised orange finish, like the best home-made marmalade, well boiled, dark and rough cut, not the 'refained' stuff with little cloth doilies round the top.

The palate is good but the fireworks are in the nose and the finish which are pretty brilliant. This is much more to my taste than a couple of more recent bottlings I have had over the years.