1970 Dow

[jdaw1]

Wednesday 8^th January 2014, at The Bung Hole, because Ronnie Roots was visiting London.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• Placemats, needing more circles that they had (and parameters by which made);
• Planning and arrangements.

[jdaw1]

D70 (‘DRT 1’), decanted in the morning. Cloudy orange muck, and clearly a port in trouble.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Rusty orange, 20% opaque. Offensive plastic nose, heavily oxidised with lots of marzipan and almond paste. Hollow entry with little flavour initially but some gentle juniper and pine resin that grows on the palate. A hot aftertaste with lots of spirit showing, then a lively stewed rhubarb syrup finish of good length. Soft and oxidised, but not offensive on the palate. Served blind, this was guessed to be a compromised Warre 1970. 73/100. 11 hour decant.

[DRT]

73/100

Hmm? I think "N/R" might have been more appropriate

[Alex Bridgeman]

That would have been fair - I couldn't decide whether to score or not. I decided to score since it was drinkable, just not very good.