Callum

But of course the drams have nothing to do with Ports.
They were all Port matured or finished!
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5 Score

Brian, I tried so hard, the noses were mostly encouraging, dram 4 fooled us into a false sense of deliciousness, but this is back down to a 2

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5F
MEdium length, very sweet, floral, bitter aftertaste

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5P
Sweet, red fruits, oaky, pepper, spirity, acetone, glue, overly sweet, who put sugar in my whisky?

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5N
Light orange, fresh, elastic, roses, diluted cherry juice, pink candy sweets/shrimps

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4 Score
In a galaxy far far away, Brian picked 5 drams as good as this one for a blind tasting. But the galaxy was far, far away, unfortunately. Score a very well deserved 4.

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4F
Long, warming, stone fruit, balanced

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4P
Nice mouthfeel, thick and oily, touch of peat, sweet, fruity, well balanced

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4N
Darker reddy brown, red fruits, chocolate, plastic/polyethelene, elastic band, vaguely tawny port

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3 Score
Better than the first two. Quite enjoying it in a strange kind of way (okay, I'm trying to convince myself), so I'll give it a 3

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3F
Glue, acidic, quite long, metallic

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3N
Reddy orange, red apples, cheap soap from a guest house, countryside freshness, linen on a washing line, eraser

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2 Score
Hmmm, I wanted to like this but I don't really. Score 2

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2F
Sweet, too long, bitter, green leaves

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2P
Harsh, spirity, grain/rye, white pepper, lots of wood influence, chewing on bark from a pepper tree (that makes as much sense as picking this dram), Moroccon pastry

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2N
Golden yellow, fruit, salt, a bit of dunnage, musty, grainy, a bit muted

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1 Score
Nose was really promising, so encouraged by it, but the palate was not for me, no sirree - score 1

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1F
Bitterness, saccharine, quinine, too long, weird, help

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1P
Cream soda, effervescent, grainy, so disappointing after the nose, creamy, oak tannins, overly sweet, yuck

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1N

Pinky orange, salty, coastal, Unpeated, some light gentle bourbon, stone fruit/apricots, touch of farmy funk

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5 Score
An obvious 5

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5F
Long, smoky, peaty, sweet, fruity

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5P
Big bold and oh so smoky, a field of burning sheep, farmy, baked peaches, very more-ish

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5N
At last we have some colour, brown, Germolene, peat, medicinal, burning/singed socks, some sweetness, Walnut Whip, taro desert, fruity

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4 Score
Under duress it's gone up from a 3 to a 4
#peerpressure

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4F
Smoky, salty, wood tannins, really nice

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4P
Decent mouthfeel/coating, earthiness, fresh linen, bonfire smoke, ashy

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4N
Darkest in colour so far but only just, some oiliness in the glass, slight peat?, salty, dirty, more like a decent whisky, higher abv, sweet wood, bourbon, prickly on the nose

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3 Score
L'ecole de natation marque trois points
Score 3

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