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Not that this is the best time to try and organise it for obvious reasons, but just to record it while I think of it: I think it would be very interesting to do an '03 vs '05 tasting at some point. I realise that '03 is the generally accepted best year, but have been very impressed with several '05s...

An idea stolen from AHB is to grow plants in them, although you can't easily do that with the Malvedos boxes that have a cardboard bottom. Indeed, I am yet to find a satisfactory for them since the cardboard isn't as robust as I'd like to use them for storage purposes. Also, any suggestions as to w...

If there is still room, I would like to join you on the 30th

nac wrote: ↑

17:24 Fri 12 Jun 2020

If you're interested in doing a comparison of the Taylor 2005s, then Majestic are currently knocking out the Vargellas for £30, and the Terra Feita for £27.

I find 2005 to be an under-rated year; I'll have to look this up, ty.

Doggett wrote: ↑

18:05 Mon 08 Jun 2020

Good work Neil!

+1

Km preferred here also.

This was enjoyable and interesting; Johnny and Ricardo shared interesting information, and covered a broad selection of questions. Regarding the ports, the following were my impressions in brief: - The current Churchills ports (at least from '05 onwards) all have quite a dry finish; this is delibera...

As mentioned in another thread , Churchill have their vintage port masterclass e-tasting tonight at 8pm (BST) via Instagram. Bottles are Ch94(half), ChG05, Ch14(half), Ch14lbv(half) and ChG18 (cask sample); which I've just decanted (all except the cask sample) and can confirm that both the '14s need...

I'm not really expecting the 18s to have much to filter, but we'll see; the 05 will need it ofc. I'm going to decant this morning, rather than later.

Past practice seems to lead to BA, as we only rarely use more than 1 character except for disambiguation. Does Burmester have another Quinta that might need disambiguation from (A)rnozelo? Even if so, past practice seems to lead to first come first served, with only subsequent examples providing ne...

UPDATE : After testing during last night's zoom, it was decided NOT to run a parallel zoom due to various issues including practicality of listening to both Oscar and each other, and the potential for Oscar's audio being relayed through mics unless everyone is muted or uses headphones. The preferenc...

done.

Doggett wrote: ↑

10:03 Tue 05 May 2020

Hi Phil, Always happy for you to edit anything necessary.

Thanks (I'll have to remember how to give myself permission first, so just maintaining it in thread for now).
All above added.

Oscar will be open to questions during the tasting, delivered to him by the YouTube chat function. As a non-social-media-user, do I need to create a YouTube account for this? Absolutely nothing to stop some / all of us from zooming in parallel. If too many for one Zoom, we can run parallel Zoom ses...

Morning Tom, happy birthday!
Hope the '45 shows superbly for you tonight - or this morning

jdaw1 wrote:

PhilW wrote: ↑

12:39 Sat 02 May 2020

I believe the wines are to be Ch94(half), ChG05, Ch14(half), Ch14lbv(half) and ChG18 (cask sample).

So a whole bottle of a cask sample. Unusual.

I read it more as a cask-sample sized bottle; probably the smaller/different shape smaller bottle in the photo.

They’ve chose an arty picture, at low resolution, rather than a factual picture with high-def version. Which, with wording giving some but not all bottle sizes, leaves prospective purchasers unclear about what they might be getting. I believe the wines are to be Ch94(half), ChG05, Ch14(half), Ch14l...

I found Churchills fine. quinta de la Rosa was awful - PayPal payment was the only data I was asked for. No idea if order actually placed or coming! Sounds like we've had opposite issues, with no problem with QdlR order last month (shipping confirmation 3 days after order with tracking reference; o...

I'll be joining on the 19th, assuming I can get my kit ordered - just having a little trouble with their website checkout atm.
I like the selection of ports they've picked for this tasting, and will look forward to it.

Having grumbled slightly above regarding Churchill selecting their best wine, but the low end ports for their initial online tasting, I am delighted to now see that they are following up with a vintage port tasting featuring some of their top ports. Taking place on Tue 19th May (in English) and Thu ...

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

18:56 Thu 30 Apr 2020

Dv? Could be Ds, but I prefer Dv. Any objections to Dv?

Dv preferred (and already used here!)

I cannot help but feel that the score at which I arrived ultimately does not do justice to this wine. Put another way, I liked it a great deal more than the solid, albeit unspectacular numerical result would suggest. If your feel the score you are giving does not appropriately match the wine you ar...

On the assumption that Youtube live is essentially one-way (video/audio from Oscar to us, none to him - possibly messaging?), shall we Zoom in parallel?

I'm in.

akzy wrote: ↑

16:04 Thu 23 Apr 2020

I have 3999 solutions...
https://oeis.org/search?q=1%2c2%2c3%2c5&fmt=short

Interesting source (you big cheat).
Matula-Goebel numbers of rooted identity trees; how could we have missed that? So obvious now someone has said it!