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Neil arranged that we taste 1966s at sixty, at the Boot & flogger, on Tuesday 17^th March 2026.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• TNs:
  • 1966 Taylor;
  • 1966 Fonseca (PW);
  • 1966 Fonseca (AHB);
  • 1966 Croft;
  • 1966 Gould Campbell;
  • 1966 Smith Woodhouse;
  • 1966 Dow;
  • 1966 Graham;
  • 1966 Warre;
  • 1966 Ferreira;
  • 1966 Sandeman;
  • 1966 Avery;
  • 1966 Constantino;
  • 1966 Quinta do Noval;
  • 1966 Quinta do Noval Nacional;
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

Decanted 07:30. Unknown bottler, but from a stash that has shown well previously.

The sediment was perhaps interesting (for those with sufficient geekiness) - there seemed to be none to begin with, almost nothing in the gauze/funnel. The bottle is of light green glass, and I could see no sediment in the bottom, just the shadow of the paint mark on bottle side - except it wasn't; it was all of the sediment, in a pad-shape, stuck to the side of the bottle (presumably where it had lain) and which hadn't moved during standing or decant. It came loose without effort during rinsing, loads of sediment. Makes sense, just hadn't seen that before on bottle side rather than base or shoulder, post decant.