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Glenn and Kari came to London, so the obvious happened.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 2000 Bollinger Grand Année Champagne;
• Quinta Santa Eufêmia Old Reserve White;
• Sandeman Cask 33;
• Quinta do Mourão 60Y tawny;
• Warre 1972 colheita;
• Niepoort 1964 Garrefeira;
• Graham 1983;
• Taylor 1983;
• Ramos Pinto 1983;
• Warre 1982 LBV;
• Warre 1984 LBV;
• Placemats (and parameters by which made);
• Food order;
• Planning and arrangements.

Deep red, no bricking but a mature pink rim; 90% opaque. Initially this smells of baby-sick! A swirl changes the smell to a sweet blackcurrant but with a warning hint of rosemary. Youthful fruit on entry; dry tannins sitting in a soft whitecurrant core. A nice balance on the palate but this will benefit from more time in the bottle. There is some heat on the aftertaste. A dry tannin-led sweet redcurrant start to the finish before a long and complex green-wood finish of great length. Fragrant but youthful port. 88/100.

G83. Dark red, 70% opaque. Palate rough. Behind the roughness was red fruit, but the whole thing ruined by the roughness.