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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 3 (Fri 3^rd Oct 2025):
  • Martinez;
  • Cockburn;
  • Kopke São Luiz;
  • Rebello Valente;
  • Cálem;
  • Cálem Quinta da Foz;
  • Burmester;
  • Sibio.

RV70: orange, 30% opaque; acidic, “drinkable but very very junior”.

1970 Rebello Valente. Mature brick red, 50% opaque. Surprisingly restrained on the nose showing a little bruised and battered red fruit. Initially very lightweight on the palate but the fruit shows well in the mid- and late palate. Bright and fresh redcurrant and whitecurrant on the aftertaste and an impressive length of currant fruit on the finish. In the end, this was much better than I was expecting. 86/100. Oporto bottled. Double decanted 8 hours.

[Sample taken on night and consumed on 13/10/25] Orange rim. Attractive if faded nose of candied citrus. Palate soft and rich and sweet but has a slightly odd bitter herbal note towards the finish. Nice warming after- note with some dried unsulphured apricot. Drinkable with some, but not a lot of, pleasure.