1 dozen bottles per dozen
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Lying in Wiltshire
Dow--Vintage 1977
Parcel: lots 208 to 210 and 211 to 212
Tasting note: In 1979 crisp, ruby purple; spirity, beef-tea nose; sweet, full yet fleshy. Loads of all the appropriate component parts. Over two dozen well-spaced notes later illustrating the beginning of colour loss in mid-1980s, though still ruby, intense, translucent. The nose endlessly fascinating with sweet, fig-like fruit, a squeeze of tangerine, cognac-like spirit, tight-knit but developing fragrance. A decade later rich, intense, almost explosively assertive, with the grip of a good vintage and long lean dry finish. Attractive bottles in the late 1990s and, most recently, a very fragrantly scented magnum almost eau de cologne (we were informed that this very distinctive herbal nose is common to all 77s). Unusual, high-toned, delicious. M.B.
1 dozen bottles per dozen
Dow--Vintage 1977
Parcel: lots 208 to 210 and 211 to 212
Tasting note: In 1979 crisp, ruby purple; spirity, beef-tea nose; sweet, full yet fleshy. Loads of all the appropriate component parts. Over two dozen well-spaced notes later illustrating the beginning of colour loss in mid-1980s, though still ruby, intense, translucent. The nose endlessly fascinating with sweet, fig-like fruit, a squeeze of tangerine, cognac-like spirit, tight-knit but developing fragrance. A decade later rich, intense, almost explosively assertive, with the grip of a good vintage and long lean dry finish. Attractive bottles in the late 1990s and, most recently, a very fragrantly scented magnum almost eau de cologne (we were informed that this very distinctive herbal nose is common to all 77s). Unusual, high-toned, delicious. M.B.
1 dozen bottles per dozen
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