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I could be in London next Tuesday evening, and since it has been a while since I've been able to meet up with my port chums, it seems like a good opportunity to get one last offline in before the school holidays, if anyone is available?

From the label, this appears to be a 1931 Niepoort Garrafeira port - note this is neither a "vintage port" nor a "tawny"/"colheita", but a separate relatively uncommon style of port created by the process described by DRT. The label and bottle appear genuine, of the expected type. The capsule is the...

Reconfirming attendance, and email sent.

Wow. The chance to taste a Waterloo vintage port is a privilege, you guys present are very fortunate, and Christopher very generous. Sounds like a very interesting evening of different ports (I'll be particularly interested to hear how the Adams '66 [RO] showed), and the old Dalva colheita (I very m...

Road driving from London to Porto is really horrible thing, we drove from London and it was very tiring, also road directions was not correct sometimes and it was too hard to arrive to Porto, sometimes Googlemap did not give correct directions and then we start using usual services for maps for exa...

Yes please!

Andy Velebil wrote:Anytime except when Europeans are on their holiday there LOL.

:O Am imagining the response if I replied to the same question posted on ftlop with "anytime the Americans are not there" ;p

Decanted on Saturday; only a small amount drunk on Sat evening at D+3hr: lovely raisins and complex fruit initially, leading to a simpler very sweet Graham-like finish. Didn't get the chance for any on Sun evening, so next drunk at D+48hr; sadly has not lasted well. Now somewhat less full or well ba...

I must come back and write more, but first impression of this wine is that it is a delicious, superbly balanced 20yr (sweet) white, lovely full flavour, good length finish.

Overall I prefer the 20yr tawny to the 20yr white, but that is no criticism of the white; this is a very good wine.

Rating: vg+

Ah but that's another interesting different option Wolfgang - you seem to be implicitly suggesting a "best of 91 vs best of 92" rather than pairs of 91/92 from the same shipper.

uncle tom wrote:Will you pair SQ's with declared ports, or focus on those who declared both?

Personally I'm hoping for the majors (FG91 vs F92, G91 vs GM92 etc), perhaps with some dual declarers depending on availability.

Count me in.

Sounds like a good plan to me, I'd be interested.

Why was there so much guessing of Ts94 (both for the wine that was in fact Ts94, and for wine that wasn't)?
Perhaps it is well known (just not to me) that members have recently bought Ts94 and thus it might appear - but which producer is "Ts" ?

In rough agreement with DRT. In top condition this would retail for £800-1200, and hence you would be likely to obtain £400-600 if you were to sell it privately or at auction. Regarding condition, the capsule/seal looks good, but you would need to check the level of the wine in the bottle; if this i...

Starter: Welsh rarebit
Main: Rib eye steak (Black and Blue)
+ bearnaise sauce
+ green beans with shallots, or creamed spinach (season dependent, latter preferred)

But please, rather than tease me with vague statements like "I have a few 1970", let me know what you have. It doesn't have to be in thread - you can tell me by PM or by email. But if the list above starts to identify that we need to find a Ferreira, for example, we can make sure that when one come...

p.s. Alex's order appears to be missing from the food order (as does Ian's, but in the latter case he hasn't provided one).

And please could somebody check the placemats . Please could somebody check the placemats ? (Please do command-r or control-r to force a reload to the latest version, time-stamped ≥ 10:30 Sun 03 June.) Everything looks in order Julian. Agree with Mike, with a couple of notes. - Placemats all appear...

Congratulations Axel!

New policy for future events. I will post that people are getting a copy of a recent order, and if different might be wanted, it will be their responsibility to check and request. Good plan. Or have a "default order" thread. As I think I've ordered the same thing for the last 4+ tastings, works for...

forest26 wrote: ↑

08:06 Tue 22 May 2018

For reference: I only have 50, 54, 60, 62, 63 and a lot of recent vintages.

"only"!

Food for me please:

Starter: Welsh rarebit
Main: Rib eye steak (Black and Blue)
+ bearnaise sauce
+ green beans with shallots

forest26 wrote:Hi Phil
Looks like there was a gap at 8 - over to you.

Excellent, I'll be pleased to join you. Could either bring a W58 (need to check condition) or am happy to join the adoption pool so that we have a wider range of years covered.

PhilW wrote: ↑

17:41 Sun 06 May 2018

I didn't think I would be able to make this date, but it now appears I could. However, I believe you're full, so perhaps I could be added as a reserve?

If there is now a spot available, can I now be confirmed?