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DRT’s annual medical dose of Port from his birth year was administered on Tue 26^th Mar 2019 at The Boot & Flogger.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1960 Graham (from THRA);
• 1960 Warre (from MPM);
• 1960 Croft (from RGO);
• 1963 Graham (from SCP);
• 1963 Morgan (from CMAG);
• 1965 Taylor Quinta de Vargellas (from DRT);
• 1965 Dow Quinta do Bomfim (from AHB);
• 1966 Fonseca (from JDAW);
• 1970 Butler Nephew (from PW);
• 1970 Graham (from BMHR);
• 1970 Fonseca (from DRT);
• 1970 Smith Woodhouse (from IDJ);
• 1977 Warre (from DRL);
• 1977 Taylor (from CPR);
• 1980 Smith Woodhouse (from AKZY);
• The Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

DB65. Red-brown, 30% opaque. Very rich. Sharp heat mid-palate; nonetheless unctuous. Rich and lovely, but with a slight fragility.

30% opacity, red-amber. Mint and menthol nose. Soft, smooth, great balance, sweet, caramels.

A mature burnt-ochre colour, 30% opaque. Milk chocolate and juniper on the nose; allowing the Port to settle in the glass enables the nose to develop well, but only to highlight an edge of dirtiness to the fruit. The fruit on the palate is bruised initially, but develops to an intensely concentrated sweet mandarin with concentrated acidity and a thick texture. Lots of heat shows on the aftertaste, but this settles and allows a concentrated mandarin flavour to dominate although the heat never completely disappears. This is a nice Port, intensely flavoured but lacks balance and finesse. A recent release, this bottle had been recorked with an irradiated cork which collapsed into fragments when being pulled. 88/100.