1970 Royal Oporto Carvalhas

[RAYC]

Tasted at the Crusting Pipe on 3 April 2011, a pre-FG warm-up session.

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Review of the evening as a whole

2009 cask sample [RLC to confirm naming permitted]
1995 Vesuvio
1991 Quinta de la Rosa
1988 Dow Quinta do Bomfim
1985 Martinez
1985 Taylor
1978 Taylor Vargellas
1970 Ramos Pinto
1970 Royal Oporto quinta [Das Carvalhas] - t.b.c.
1963 Graham

2006 Niepoort Charme
2004 Crasto Vinha da Ponte

NV Tactical Nuclear Penguin

Planning and arrangements
Paperwork (tasting mats, note sheets and bottle labels)

[RAYC]

Not the regular bottling, but (i believe) a rather attractively bottled single quinta variant. A really good, elegant mature port i felt.

Won the WOTN voting at a canter - certainly not undeserved, but margin possibly aided by the consensus that a RO WOTN was too good an opportunity to turn down!

Thanks to THRA for providing, and for very generously offering up (and making good on) a prize bottle if it was correctly guessed.

[jdaw1]

THRA’s ROC70. Red-brown, medium translucency. To taste thin, somewhat oxidised, very very smooth, with oranges.

RAYC almost correctly chose RO70. I mis-guessed CR67. Others: CR64, Ni55, Cr60, O60, ?60.

[JacobH]

Fully mature in colour: a light pink color. Muted nose. In the mouth, orange, caramel and light sugar. Very drinkable now. (Unexpectedly) excellent.