1970 Dalva

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jdaw1
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1970 Dalva

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Part of The 1970 Horizontal (the definite article being most appropriate all hail organiser Axel P), in The RAF Club, 128 Piccadilly, London W1J 7PY, on Friday 30th January 2009.

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Re: 1970 da Silva

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Lots of VA on the nose. This had a good weight and texture but I could not get past the VA. I have better experiences with this wine on a number of occassions.
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Re: 1970 da Silva

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1970 da Silva: said by Dominic Symington to be the same wine as Dalva. Nosing of lovely dark fruit, and, perhaps, lychee. But to taste very minty unpleasantly so. :-(

I propose renaming this in the TN index to ‟Dalva, aka Presidential, aka da Silva”. Thoughts?
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Re: 1970 da Silva

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See Dalva.
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