1980 Smith Woodhouse

[jdaw1]

Links:

• Arrangements;
• Blinded Placemats;
• Un-blinded Placemats;
• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1980 Cockburn LBV;
• 1980 Dow;
• 1980 Ferreira;
• 1980 Fonseca (in Bottle);
• 1980 Fonseca (en Magnum);
• 1980 Graham’s;
• 1980 Hutcheson;
• 1980 Noval Nacional;
• 1980 Offley Boa Vista;
• 1980 Smith Woodhouse (in Bottle);
• 1980 Smith Woodhouse (in Halves);
• 1980 Taylor;
• 1980 Warre.

[jdaw1]

Two halves of SW80 in decanter #9. The colour a lovely red, though a little translucent. Nose: VA-tastic. Yuck. THRA also finding butanol. Just bad.

[DRT]

Smith Woodhouse 1980 from half bottle
From 2 half bottles. Light red colour, but still distinctly red rather than paling to any shade of orange. Bottle stink all over the nose and not enough time to allow it to blow off in the 12 hours we took for the tasting. Light in flavour with stewed fruits dominating. Not rated. (24 hours after the tasting, the bottle stink had blown off and the port was much improved.)

[uncle tom]

My note:

Not a star - Sandeman?

In the event, nothing like as good as the SW from a bottle.

Tom