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On Thursday 27th October 2011, at The Crusting Pipe, StevieCage and RonnieRoots held a tasting with AHB, jdaw1 and RAYC.

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Review of the evening as a whole
1985 Graham (bottle 1)
1985 Graham (bottle 2)
1985 Fonseca
1983 Offley Boa Vista
1977 Niepoort
1970 Gould Campbell
1998 Dow quinta do Bomfim
Planning and arrangements

Short notes for this: Smooth, mouth-filling, youngish, delicious, good tongue-tingling spiciness. Possibly under-decanted, as continued to come round nicely in glass until it was finished. Another 5 years will do nicely, but so will a case for drinking in the meantime...Gone too soon...****(*) (92)

Deep red in colour, 70% opaque. Quite closed on the nose; herbaceous tones, sweet and with a touch of eucalyptus. Sweet fruit on the palate, with a very spicy centre that is full of black licorice. Plenty of fruit, but also a brooding acidic structure. Mouth filling. Hot flush on the aftertaste and then a long finish of sweet redcurrant. Needs a lot more time; will be better in 10 years. Served blind, I guessed this to be D91, other guesses were Var91, Ch85 and FG87. 5 hours decant. Drunk 27 October 2011. 90/100.

F85, JDAW: 70% opaque, red. Pepper. Big. Smooth surprisingly so. Heat near end, then disappears. Thoroughly yummy. Mis-guessed by all.