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On Thursday 19^th December 2013 a subset of the obvious suspects gathered at The Bell in Wendens Ambo to taste old, peculiar and unknown bottles.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• Sticky labels and other paperwork, and parameters by which constructed.
• Planning and arrangements.

Deep gold in colour with an orange rim. Salty nose, with a touch of iodine. Dry attack, fiercely acidic with burnt raisin fruit, lots of iodine and salt. Big aftertaste, sour and burnt. Not particularly attractive, this tastes like a Sercial madeira of considerable age. (Labelled as bottle #5 at the tasting.) 75/100.

I did not take notes on this but recall finding the sharp dryness quite intriguing and not unattractive. I suspect I got considerably more pleasure from this than AHB!

Tawny colour, 20% opaque. Nose very over-the-hill, with light petrol. Palate: everything gone except soft petrol.