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Sounds interesting; in addition to "when?", also where? (London or Saffron Walden-ish?)

To give some context: 1979 was a very poor year for port, so the Graham Malvedos would not normally be worth much even when well kept (perhaps £30-40 retail, of which you'd expect to get roughly half as private seller. There is however one reason you might get more for it right now, which is that it...

I'm still waiting for the day that Julian's Welsh Rarebit arrives at the table as a bowl of molten cheese (plus worcestershire sauce and possibly a touch of mustard, of course) with a piece of toast at the bottom!

Just... wow.
Sound like a fantastic day, and a very generous host.

Message from Bartholomew Broadbent to members of TPF attending tomorrow's tasting: I’m looking forward to the Broadbent Port Tasting tomorrow. Tomorrow happens to be the first day that my father’s new book, Wine Tasting goes on sale. I have the opportunity to pick up copies of them tonight. They are...

PhilW wrote: ↑

08:06 Mon 22 Apr 2019

not looking positive

Confirming I will unfortunately not be able to attend due to work.
Please could someone make sure we get photos of all bottles/labels/capsules; thanks.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

22:18 Wed 24 Apr 2019

Both the food order and the placemats have been updated.

I like the order of "heretically normal" welsh rarebit for Irayna

Caparica wrote:Reserve... please

You're a touch late on this one I'm afraid, it happened last year!

jdaw1 wrote:

PhilW wrote: ↑

08:06 Mon 22 Apr 2019

Wrong starter; but probably irrelevant if I can't make it.

In case you can make it — I hope so — please tell me the correct starter.

PhilW wrote:Starter: Flatbread, lemon & coriander houmous

Thanks.

work is currently threatening to get in the way. Will confirm later. It is still uncertain as to whether I can attend, and not looking positive; suggest you move me to reserve and I will add at last minute if able. Food order updated. Everybody: It’s your job to check. if you don’t check, and you d...

AHB wrote:If there's any interest in doing a double vertical, Luís Sottomayor gave me a set of bottles from the LBV masterclass he delivered at the BFT yesterday with the instruction to share them with the folks on The Port Forum.

Sounds like an excellent idea - and generous of Luis.

I set aside a W91 for this after discussion at our last tasting, though work is currently threatening to get in the way. Will confirm later.

I have odd bottles of Churchill, Graham and Royal Oporto to hand (others in storage if none of those suit).

On balance, and to get as large a selection of final blends as we can, I would prefer w/c 9 Sep. Any thoughts on (a) do we do this — is there enough interest from the team? (b) if we do it, does w/c 9 Sep work for those interested? I think you may have forgotten that DRT has fixed the '66s for Sep ...

I would like this tasting to be semi blind. I think it makes sense for everyone to declare what they bring so we get a good selection and avoid me doing the usual of guessing it’s a different port when it is the same. Excellent, and my preferred alternative as it happens. The usual way to achieve t...

Ahem. CMAG was suggesting we do this blind. So we will have one bottle out of twelve that is known to be there and none of us except the Monkey will guess which it is. That depends how the organiser chooses to run this. We will all know at least one producer which is present (which we have supplied...

Sounds good to me also.

This does not sound typical of this wine. In my experience Warre '77 can vary somewhat, but I would expect it to be a good medium/dark red colour still, and not oxidised. Since I hadn't opened on for a while, I've just decanted one; pics below for your colour comparison (against white tile), or atta...

An idea for another slightly different tasting: "Battle of the blends" Primarily to include cross-producer blends, such as: - Any Factory House vintages - Any Avery VP blends - Others? Depending on number of people/ports, we could extend the any VP blends, i.e. to include crusted, perhaps with limit...

I'll bring the Warre.

AHB wrote: ↑

23:03 Sat 16 Mar 2019

DRT wrote: ↑

09:17 Sat 16 Mar 2019

Tuesday 10th of September?

Works for me

Good for me too.

Please add me to the reserve list this year; thanks.

Two minor edits: the early weeks of Sep are erroneous as shown currently - both of "PW not avail 15th" and "DRT not avail 8th" are for Oct (not Sep), which would also make w/c Sep 9 empty, though I agree that w/c 10 Jun would be a good choice if DRT available then.

I don't think we need to push it out that far. Deliberately ignoring July and August as too hot and holiday season, we don't currently have that many tastings planned this year, with nothing in June, (July, August), September or the first half of October. It would seem better to me to have a tasting...

DRT wrote: ↑

00:27 Wed 13 Mar 2019

I think October would be good.

Does Tuesday the 15th work?

Not for me sadly, as that's my wife's birthday. A week earlier (the 8th) would work; a week later would be right next to my own birthday tasting.