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Monday 24th April 2023, in the Boot & Flooger, the theme having shifted from “Bring a Bottle” to a reprise of a tasting thirty years before.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1963 Taylor;
• 1963 Graham;
• 1963 Martinez;
• 1970 Taylor;
• 1970 Graham;
• 1970 Cockburn;
• 1970 Noval;
• 1970 Dow;
• 1970 Gould Campbell;
• 1970 Unknown;
• 1977 Fonseca;
• 1992 Graham Malvedos;
• 2011 Fortnum & Mason (Niepoort);
• 1975 Chiltern Valley Syrah= †;
• Placemats;
• Food order;
• Planning and arrangements.

GM92. Dark dark red, 80% opaque. Black fruit, mid weight, sweet. Liked.

70% opacity, dark red. Fresh, rich, sweet nose. Rich and chewy, strawberries, full, balanced.

A rich and youthful red with an opaque centre and a wide rim. Bright, fresh fruit on the nose with the alcohol a little unintegrated. Lovely leisurely black fruit, a lively menthol spicing up the black fruit lozenge. A long, sweet, black fruit lozenge finish rounds off this wonderful wine, a wine which is drinking very well today but has decades of life ahead of it. 91/100. Decanted 18 hours.