NV Borges Muito Velho

[jdaw1]

NV Borges VVV bottled 1947
Thursday 31^st October 2013, at The Bung Hole, with a vague non-theme of ‟All Hallows’ Eve: Remember the Dead (Blinded and Decorated)”.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• Hattingley Valley Classic Cuvée (RAYC);
• 1977 Warre (JDAW);
• 1947 Koppenhagen (South African?) (THRA);
• 1958 Martinez (EDN);
• 1960 Cálem (WPS);
• 1985 Niepoort (RLC);
• 2001 Graham Malvedos (RLC);
• Borges VVV bottled 1947 (DFM);
• 1955 Croft (RAYC);
• Placemats (and parameters by which made);
• Planning and arrangements.

[jdaw1]

[jdaw1]

Borges VVV. Cloudy brown. Nose stinky. Obviously wood aged.

Later, others showed more enthusiasm.

[djewesbury]

Was this relabelled by the owner, or by the shipper?

[DRT]

Borges VVV. Cloudy brown. Nose stinky. Obviously wood aged.

Later, others showed more enthusiasm.

Did the wine improve with time, or was it the Port tasting equivalent of beer goggles that made it appear more attractive to some?

[jdaw1]

Did the wine improve with time, or was it the Port tasting equivalent of beer goggles that made it appear more attractive to some?

If I recall correctly, which for the same goggle reason might not be so, some others had ab initio enthusiasm.

Also it received three third-place votes:

[uncle tom]

Was this relabelled by the owner, or by the shipper?

By the shipper.