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After the BBR Port Walk, some people still felt thirsty. We arrived at the Bung Hole in time to eat some steak burgers and open some bottles that were wrapped in tinfoil.

Quinta do Noval 1978
Graham 1977
Cabral 1940 Colheita
Cockburn 20YO Tawny(bottled 1997)
Quinta do Crasto 1993 LBV

Oliveiras 1968 Bual Madeira

Château de Sales Pomerol 1970
Château La Tour de By 1999

The placemats
Planning and arrangements

how was this?

i know alex enjoys the 70s bordeaux

i've found most of them tiring/over the hill personally

g-man wrote:how was this?

i know alex enjoys the 70s bordeaux

i've found most of them tiring/over the hill personally

It was striking. A massive farmyard / manure nose and mouth, very pronounced. Apart from that I'm not sure I noticed much else; light acid perhaps. But AHB has a note.
But thanks to DRT for bringing it as part of my old Bordeaux initiation.

mm =T

i had the cos d'estrounal 78 and the palmer 78 tongiht

both were tiring, barnyard, acid, with no signs of anything else.

downright funky actually

I can say that i'm not a fan of claret from teh 70s.

the 61 though, some of them are wow.

g-man wrote:mm =T

i had the cos d'estrounal 78 and the palmer 78 tongiht

both were tiring, barnyard, acid, with no signs of anything else.

downright funky actually

I can say that i'm not a fan of claret from teh 70s.

the 61 though, some of them are wow.

Palmer 78 is usually very good; you must have had a bad bt. 78 is generally not so great; wines to look out for are La Mission Haut Brion, Palmer, Pichon Comtesse Lalande and Leoville Las Cases.
I agree the 70s as a decade do not have a lot of great Bordeaux as the 60s have. But there are some noticeable exceptions e.g. Palmer 70, Trotanoy 70 etc.
61s are great I agree, but these days quite expensive

regards

WS1

What does mm = T mean?

Mature red colour, orange rim, slightly cloudy. Big and powerful on the nose with generous fruit and an earthy tone. Sweet fruit mixed with dirt and earth. Light bodied, very powerful dry tannins that dominate and don't allow balance. Mature, gentle finish. Acceptable drinking, but unbalanced. 74/100.

AHB wrote:Mature red colour, orange rim, slightly cloudy. Big and powerful on the nose with generous fruit and an earthy tone. Sweet fruit mixed with dirt and earth. Light bodied, very powerful dry tannins that dominate and don't allow balance. Mature, gentle finish. Acceptable drinking, but unbalanced. 74/100.

Is this TN possibly a little euphemistic? I think that we agreed in the room that it had a very pronounced 'barnyard' nose, as g-man has termed it in a separate note above. I wonder if words like 'earthy' and 'dirt' could be confusing or just not quite as descriptive as a reader would hope; earthy could mean many things.
I ask in the spirit of enquiry and debate.