1983 Real Vinicola

[jdaw1]

A horizontal of 1983 (‟83@30”) at The Bung Hole.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1983 Feuerheerd;
• 1983 Niepoort;
• 1983 Kopke Quinta St. Luiz;
• 1983 Offley Boa Vista;
• 1983 Churchill Quinta da Água Alta;
• 1983 Cockburn;
• 1983 Warre;
• 1983 Dow;
• 1983 Wine Society;
• 1983 Gould Campbell;
• 1983 Fonseca;
• 1983 Taylor;
• 1983 Croft Quinta da Roeda;
• 1983 Real Vinicola;
• 2006 Vesuvio (magnum);
• Placemats (made by Daniel);
• Planning and arrangements.

[jdaw1]

[jdaw1]

RVi83. Not even slightly nasty. Full-on utterly nasty. Almost impressively so.

One sees in books, for wine becoming too old, the instruction ‟Drink up.” Not this: pour it away. Don’t even use it for cooking: down the sink it goes.

[djewesbury]

RVi83. Not even slightly nasty. Full-on utterly nasty. Almost impressively so.

One sees in books, for wine becoming too old, the instruction ‟Drink up.” Not this: pour it away. Don’t even use it for cooking: down the sink it goes.

And yet you didn't vote for it as WWOTN.
(This was hideous. The only good thing about it was that it was quite watery too.)

[idj123]

Not really sure how to describe this other than to say it really was as bad as stated above!

[Alex Bridgeman]

Pale red, 30% opaque. A vague hint of VA on the nose, little else. Light entry bringing little flavour - perhaps some rhubarb that comes with tannin and acidity with some vague fruit. Not much flavour at all. Some acidity on the aftertaste and some heat on the finish. Really a nothing port. 69/100.

[djewesbury]

69/100? That's a high 2:1! This port was a fail.

[Glenn E.]

As I recall, 69 indicates a sub-average Port. Since there us so much Cruz Ruby made, one could hypothesize that it defines average. Or at least median. So this is worse than Cruz Ruby. I believe that counts as a fail.