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jdaw1 wrote: ↑22:45 Thu 10 Jan 2019From Victoria: The Queen, Julia Baird: “Queen Victoria was born, roaring, at 4:15 ᴀ.ᴍ., in the hour before dawn on May 24, 1819”.

The time convenient to us that is closest to the two hundredth anniversary of that would be the evening of Thursday 23^rd May 2019.

And we did.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• The Ports:
  • 1963 Quinta do Noval;
  • 1960 Croft;
  • 1963 Sandeman;
  • 1963 Dow;
  • 1966 Taylor;
  • 1966 Fonseca;
  • 1966 Warre;
  • 1970 Royal Oporto Carvalhas;
  • 1970 Fonseca;
  • 1970 Warre;
  • 1977 Taylor;
• Placemats;
• Food order;
• Planning and arrangements.

F66. Dark red, 60%. Mid+ weight; dry throughout. There’s a grape-pip bitterness there. Not quite F66.

Dark mature red colour, 80% opaque. Mature fruit on the nose but slightly soapy although showing well. Lots of fruit on the palate, rich and very much dominated by the sweet red fruit with hints of tannin; a palate which fills the mouth well with a very, very fine palate. The fruit dominates the aftertaste before a huge black cherry fruit finish. Great Port. 93/100.