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A horizontal of 1991s, some Vintage, some Single-Quinta, on Monday 9^th December 2019, at The Boot & Flogger, as arranged by GEAG.

Links:

• Review of the event as a whole;
• Tasting notes:
  • Dow;
  • Graham;
  • Warre;
  • Quinta do Vesuvio;
  • Smith Woodhouse;
  • Gould Campbell;
  • Cockburn;
  • Cockburn Quinta dos Canais;
  • Taylor Quinta de Vargellas;
  • Fonseca Guimaraens;
  • Croft;
  • Morgan;
  • Quinta do Noval;
  • Quinta do Noval Nacional;
  • Quinta de la Rosa;
  • Niepoort;
• Placemats (and in the list of placemats);
• Planning and arrangements.

V91. Red-pink, 50% opaque. Maraschino cherry, dry mid palate, long. Really liked. This is showing beautifully, but will not last another two decades.

Later, still liked. But not as full as some.

Fairly dark. Strong taste of Pontefract cakes.

Still quite dark. Nice clean nose with some good fruit still. Rich. Liked a lot.

Deep red colour, mature with a brick tone; 60% opaque. A lovely fresh red cherry fruit nose, with just a hint of earthiness at the core of the cherry - very nicely developed. Sweet, velvety texture on the palate with fragrant red cherry fruit managing to be lively and balanced with an unexpected rose fragrance on the mid-palate and a bit of a pine needle bite on the late palate. Some heat shows on the finish before a dark cherry finish. This is a lovely, rich and balanced wine which is richer than the Dow, Graham and Warre tasted alongside it. 91/100.