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Neil C. arranged, at the Boot and Flogger, a horizontal of 1997s, the first since a 1997 Maturity Evaluation on 16th June 2014.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1997 Burmester;
• 1997 Quinta do Noval;
• 1997 Quinta do Noval Silval;
• 1997 Taylor;
• 1997 Fonseca;
• 1997 Croft Quinta da Roêda;
• 1997 Dow;
• 1997 Graham;
• 1997 Gould Campbell;
• 1997 Warre;
• 1997 Vesuvio;
• 1997 Smith Woodhouse;
• 1997 Quarles Harris;
• 1997 Martinez;
• 1997 Sandeman Vau;
• 1997 Ramos Pinto;
• 1997 Val da Figueira;
• 1997 Osborne;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Food order;
• Placemats (and in list of placemats).

Double decanted 12 hours. A deep red with a medium rim. Fragrant nose with ripe fruit showing well out of the glass - lovely. A beautiful texture on the palate; ripe fruit and good firm tannins with good complexity to the fruit. The tannins are ripe on the aftertaste and support a fine red toffee apple finish of great length. A really good Port, slightly lighter bodied than the Warre or Graham tasted in the same flight. 90/100.

Chocolate and dark cherries on the nose. Slightly muted on the palate but that might be because it's a touch cold - I'll come back to this later.

Coming back to it, this is a very enjoyable wine - strawberries and chocolate. Tannic grip.

Dark. Pale pink rim. On the nose, strawberries, lots of strawberries. A fair amount of good attack on the palate. Excellent. I went out and bought half a case.

65% dark red. Red fruit on the nose. Full, round, red fruit, strawberries.