1966 Croft

[jdaw1]

Neil arranged that we taste 1966s at sixty, at the Boot & flogger, on Tuesday 17^th March 2026.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• TNs:
  • 1966 Taylor;
  • 1966 Fonseca (PW);
  • 1966 Fonseca (AHB);
  • 1966 Croft;
  • 1966 Gould Campbell;
  • 1966 Smith Woodhouse;
  • 1966 Dow;
  • 1966 Graham;
  • 1966 Warre;
  • 1966 Ferreira;
  • 1966 Sandeman;
  • 1966 Avery;
  • 1966 Constantino;
  • 1966 Quinta do Noval;
  • 1966 Quinta do Noval Nacional;
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

[nac]

A single bottle purchased from the Army & Navy Store in September 2004 for £50. They were selling off the contents of the Victoria Street cellar and apparently this was unmoved since bottling. Several other odd bottles purchased around the same time.

17/3/26 - opened and decanted 0830. Level in neck. Very good cork - had a thin layer of clear wax under the capsule. QA sample good.

[nac]

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[winesecretary]

Yellowing rim. Distinctly orange port. Orange and coffee nose. Orange and honeysuckle palate. Croft 1966 is notoriously variable now, and this is towards the wrong end of that spectrum.