1965 Fonseca Guimaraens

[jdaw1]

Within the regulation week of DRT’s 51st birthday, we (DRT, JDAW, IDJ, AHB, THRA, SCD, CPR, ARM, and TC) brought “a bottle of VP, blind or sighted” to the Boot and Flogger.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1965 Krohn (CMAG from DRT, sighted);
• 1965 Fonseca Guimaraens (DRT, blind);
• 1970 Gonzalez Byass (JDAW, blind);
• 1970 Quinta do Noval (IDJ, blind);
• Unknown, claimed to be SW47 (AHB, blind);
• 1961 Graham Malvedos (THRA, blind);
• 1965 Fonseca Guimaraens (SCD, blind);
• 1970 Graham (CPR, blind);
• 1987 Taylor Vargellas (ARM, blind);
• 1965 Krohn (TC, blind);
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Pale chestnut red, 30% opaque. A sweet nose of dried cranberries and brown sugar. Light in texture with the brown sugar leading the flavours. Spicy and hot on the mid-palate with the alcohol showing strongly; very bitter with little fruit and a lot of tertiary characteristics. Bitters dominated aftertaste, hot and a little unpleasant. The finish is long, bitter and of modest volume. 84/100.

[jdaw1]

FG65. Red-brown, 30% opaque. Palate of red cherry, full, and almost long. Lovely Port, but lighter than perfect.