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From checking the Mutuals Public Register it appears that the Wine Society were at Holles Street between August 1929 and October 1940, so it's probably a 1930s bottling. Cockburn’s Full Dry was in Wine Society catalogues, intermittently, from about March 1912, at 24/- per dozen (ten metric pennies ...

I went into this tasting dissmissing my friend’s silly hypothesis. because the act of decanting so mixes air into the liquid, I was confident that the extent of surface area — ship’s versus straight sided — would make no approximately difference. Overall . My view is, there was a some difference bet...

nac wrote: ↑12:54 Tue 23 Apr 2024

jdaw1 wrote: ↑22:17 Sun 21 Apr 2024

nac wrote: ↑10:34 Tue 09 Apr 2024Julian - could you update the placemats please?

Done, I hope correctly.

Appears to be a "Michael M" on the attendees who isn't.
Other than that all good.

The placemats have been fixed.

Also:
• Soup;
• Sirloin (blue), skinny fries, carrots
• Welsh rarebit.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑20:47 Sun 21 Apr 2024Current draft of the placemats has been added to the first post. Somebody please check that it’s correct (so far).

Please.

I think so: yes.

BBC, 'A bottle of wine a night was normal for me' , 21 April 2024: For almost 20 years it was not unusual for Anna Donaghey to drink a bottle of wine every night. The advertising professional said it was a part of normal life, nothing "atypical or abnormal", until it began to impact her re...

nac wrote: ↑10:34 Tue 09 Apr 2024Julian - could you update the placemats please?

Done, I hope correctly.

Current draft of the placemats has been added to the first post. Somebody please check that it’s correct (so far).

Constandia wrote: ↑16:39 Wed 10 Apr 2024Hey guys, 8 days to go! Are we doing this?

I can. Are we?

mcoulson wrote: ↑09:18 Tue 09 Apr 202455,60,63,66,70,77,80,83,85,91,94,97,00,03

Only fourteen bottles‽ Please add some GMs — indeed, I offered some at a cost of zero.

Yes please.

Of course I’d love to play. But I have not suitable 1994 bottles, and so acknowledge the possibility that I might therefore be deselected.

But I have interesting ’70s, so am clinging on.

hadge wrote: ↑20:43 Wed 13 Mar 2024W47 (JDAW)

The Warre 1947 is high shoulder, bottler unknown (though it came from Alex B., and it might be that a different bottle of the batch had a label). I propose to open and decant at 07:30 on the day. Objections?

Clare S. has become a guest of JDAW.

To ask the question is to be deep in an Egyptian river.

Important : anybody bringing a decanter for this experiment, please ensure that it is clean and fresh. If it hasn’t been used in the last two-ish weeks, please re-rinse by filling with very hot water, and then dry, perhaps in sun and wind. Must be very dry, so do this task before the last moment. M...

Harry has asked me to assemble the food order , for which you might welcome a link to the food menu . You know what to do; do it. Lunch: • Crab; • Beyond Meat Burger; • Welsh rarebit. Dinner: • Soup of day; • Sirloin steak, blue , + skinny fries, + carrots; • Bramdean Pudding. (Everybody has been p...

hadge wrote: ↑20:44 Tue 02 Apr 2024I'm looking for 3 or 4 Sandeman Tawny Bottles for this event, if you can bring one or two, please let me know.

Believe yes, two, but that needs checking.

Draft of the placemats added to the first post. Please inspect and either confirm satisfactory, or instruct.

Ahh, we need two orders, don't we. Lunch and dinner! Post amended.

Harry has asked me to assemble the food order , for which you might welcome a link to the food menu . You know what to do; do it. Lunch: • Crab; • Beyond Meat Burger; • Welsh rarebit. Dinner: • Soup of day; • Sirloin steak, blue , + skinny fries, + carrots; • Bramdean Pudding. (Everybody has been pi...

hadge wrote: ↑23:16 Fri 29 Mar 2024

winesecretary wrote: ↑23:18 Mon 25 Mar 2024I remain sorrowful about my inability to attend but it’s bad form to walk out of a court hearing to go to a tappit hen tasting.

your honour are free to go to a tappit hen lunch?

This is the funniest post on TPF, perhaps ever. I’m still giggling.

From the 1994 horizontal in 2019:

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑15:57 Thu 20 Jun 2019I have a couple of cases of the Martinez. I think I'll pull one out next year for drinking over the next few years.

Did you?

So let me ask a question. If I were to give you a bottle of Port to drink this weekend, with the producer chosen at random, which vintage would you prefer me to select from if I limit your choice to the 1980s or 1990s? • 1980 is part great, part absolutely not. • I’m not a fan of ’83. • 1985 has so...