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The Horizontal of 1970s, definite article, was held over two days and five flights, Thursday 2^nd and Friday 3^rd October 2025, at the Boot & Flogger, as organised by Mike who was assisted by Julian.

Links:

• Review of the event as a whole;
• Bottle pictures;
• Planning, flight 0, Thu 2^nd Oct 2025;
• Planning, flights 1–4, Fri 3^rd Oct 2025;
• Placemats;
• Flight 1 (Fri 3^rd Oct 2025):
  • Quarles Harris;
  • Gould Campbell;
  • Gould Campbell LBV;
  • BBR;
  • Warre;
  • Dow;
  • Graham;
  • Smith Woodhouse;
  • Noval;
  • Noval Nacional.

BBR70: glorious dark red, 60% opaque; thinner than proper, lighter and more acidic. I recall others mentioning TCA, but for this TCA-insensitive, still drinkable with pleasure.

Fortunately the bottle used for my side of the table was not tainted with TCA.

1970 Berry Brothers Own Selection, from Warre. Brick red colour, 60% opaque. Hollow nose, showing very little. Soft and evolved on the palate with a little redcurrant. The redcurrant fruit lingers very nicely. Rather lovely. 89/100. Double decanted 3 hours.

Note taken on 12/10/25 from sample kindly bottled on night. Red centre, pale rim. Spice and white pepper. Palate is very fruity. Soft. Attractive port. I have worked out that some, but not I think, of my samples are coming from the Alex B side of the table.

50% opacity, rich red. Sadly tained with TCA, which became more prevalent with time in the glass. The bottle on the opposite side of the table was not TCA tainted.