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Red berries and cherries on the palate. Spicy! Fairly simple but enjoyable. Good.

Fruity initially (red cherries), but that's flooded with pepper and tannic grip - seems very young. Not a long finish. Good.

Red and black cherry fruits. Plenty of tannic grip. Liquorice. Maybe somewhat closed. Good.

Nice. Well balanced between the fruit (red cherries) and tannic grip. Still rather young. Dark chocolate. V good.

Red fruits and raisins here but with a lot more drying tannic grip. This feels quite grown up compared to the pre-90 wines, and I like it - good depth and plenty going on. V good.

This is lovely. Similar in style to the 82 but much less sweet. Red fruit, dry and quite spirity but not in an unpleasant way. Milk chocolate and strawberry with a citrus acidity. A long finish. Excellent.

My WotN.

Red berries on the nose. Punchy liquorice followed by heather honey and redcurrants. Mint. The honey follows through into the long finish. V good.

2nd place on the night for me.

Gents, work is ramping up at the moment, which is unfortunately at odds with plans to take days off to come up to London. I'm going to have to drop out of this one, but if things become calmer I may be able to join late on if there are any last minute cancellations. My apologies. Please promote Dave...

I'd like to add my thanks to both Neil for organising and to the Churchill Graham's for attending and providing some great insights into the ports we were drinking. Really enjoyed the evolution of the various ports particularly the shift from the 80s into the 90s. And yes, I made it onto my coach! H...

Welcome! As a fellow uninformed enthusiast who is also young enough to hopefully take advantage of ports that have been released this side of the millennium I've been focused on a mix of VP and SQVP (which will hopefully provide joy sooner). You'll probably already be aware of the hype surrounding 2...

CPR 1 wrote: ↑19:08 Mon 28 Feb 2022 Sounds good. I plan to arrive by 6pm, and will need to head at a reasonable time

I will try and get there as close to 6pm as possible but it might be closer to 6:30 I'm afraid.

I've just been made aware that there will be a tube strike on Tuesday. I still plan on attending but may need to leave early to ensure I make my trip back to Bristol.

Please may I have:

Smoked salmon
Steak (m-r) with chips and green beans (happy to split with someone else if that's an option)

Thanks!

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Confirming. I still have the ChG05 and ChG09, but provided costs aren't prohibitive I could adopt if we'd prefer to stick to full VP.

This one snuck up quickly! I assume we're going ahead with the Grahams in attendance, although the chatter on here has been a little quieter than the 85s thread. Neil, are we good to go? Which wines would you like us to bring?

winesecretary wrote:@ rich_n - Dow it is, thank you

Excellent, thanks.

winesecretary wrote:@ Doggett - I am sorry you will not be able to be with us... but work calls I assume. Such is life...

@ rich_n - you're in!

Wonderful! I have the Dow and while that seems a popular option I would rather bring a bottle than adopt if possible.

flash_uk wrote:Confess to being thoroughly confused, mostly by the weird state of the attendee list in the opening post. I’m showing third on the reserves, but confirm available for 11 May.

Same, I thought I was third on the confirmed attendee list but that now seems to be a blank spot

I would like 4 bottles of the bog standard stuff please!

Alex Bridgeman wrote:Please note the new (and finally confirmed) date for this tasting will be Wednesday 11th May.

I would like to reconfirm, I can make this date.

Reconfirming, thanks.

rich_n wrote:I would love to join! Might need to work out where I'll stay, but I can sort something out.

Apologies, misread the date and I don't think I can make this.

Hi Julian, just a heads up that I can't make this date. Have fun!

I would love to join! Might need to work out where I'll stay, but I can sort something out.

Apologies, misread the date and I don't think I can make this.

Less of a latest buy and more of a "latest arrival", with the 2018 wines finally making it safely to our shores. The Guimaraens is in 375s, I'm looking forward to regularly sampling those over the next couple of decades and seeing how they evolve. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220130/...