1982 Graham Single Harvest Tawny (bottled 2013)

[jdaw1]

1982 Graham Single Harvest Tawny
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.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Bottled 2013. Deep orange / brown centre, salmon pink rim. Little on the nose, slightly petrolly with a hint of acetone. Neutral, hollow entry but the palate grows with honey and burnt sugar. On the very late palate the acidity shows focus and volume. A huge aftertaste with sour grapefruit dominating the aftertaste. This opened up well in the glass, but was gone quite quickly! 88/100.

[RAYC]

Quite a sweet, caramel nose. Light but flavoursome palate presence at first, building nicely in intensity to flavoursome citric mid-palate. Nutty, olivey finish of pleasing length. Feels denser and somewhat more serious than the bottle on show at BBR port walk, albeit still not huge and perhaps somewhere short of the best 30yr tawnies.

89 pts

Approx 1/4 bottle was left over and taken home - port showed best on Saturday night (48 hours after opening), by which point it had gained in concentration and intensity and was perhaps deserving of an extra point. Showed well next to a Sandeman 20 opened as a benchmark comparison point.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Showed well next to a Sandeman 20 opened as a benchmark comparison point.

I'm impressed. You obviously did like the Sandeman 20 at the Christmas tasting to decide to use it as a benchmark at home.

[Glenn E.]

Showed well next to a Sandeman 20 opened as a benchmark comparison point.

I'm impressed. You obviously did like the Sandeman 20 at the Christmas tasting to decide to use it as a benchmark at home.

Resistance is futile. You will all be assimilated.

Come to the dark side. We have brown sticky stuff, and it is yummy.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Showed well next to a Sandeman 20 opened as a benchmark comparison point.

I'm impressed. You obviously did like the Sandeman 20 at the Christmas tasting to decide to use it as a benchmark at home.

Resistance is futile. You will all be assimilated.

Come to the dark side. We have brown sticky stuff, and it is yummy.

Sorry Glenn, you misunderstand. The Sandeman 20 we had at the Christmas tasting was Sandeman 1920. Clearly, Rob was just being careless with his apostrophe

[RAYC]

very good! and if only!

Sandeman 20yr....

[Glenn E.]

Showed well next to a Sandeman 20 opened as a benchmark comparison point.

I'm impressed. You obviously did like the Sandeman 20 at the Christmas tasting to decide to use it as a benchmark at home.

Resistance is futile. You will all be assimilated.

Come to the dark side. We have brown sticky stuff, and it is yummy.

Sorry Glenn, you misundestand. The Sandeman 20 we had at the Christmas tasting was Sandeman 1920. Clearly, Rob was just being careless with his apostrophe

IT'S A TRAP!

(At what point does this get reported as an apostrophe crime? )