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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.

We haven't mentioned early June? Either of weeks starting Jun 3rd or 10th might work? (agree May not viable)

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Others now seem to share this restraint - when organising an Offley vertical last December, I found there was no enthusiasm for including vintages more recent than 1985.. So it appears that some of my more recent purchases might be gifts for my children... Well, you did say you were intending to dr...

DRT wrote: ↑

22:51 Sun 24 Feb 2019

Could those who have not yet revealed please do so to enable JDAW to produce the placemats?

Quick, we're almost out of time to make placemats... there's only (just over) a month to go!
I'll bring a Butler Nephew '70.

Hi Claire, 1969 is not a great year for port and there was consequently only a single producer who actually sold a vintage port from that year, Taylor Quinta de Vargellas. Up until a couple of years ago, that bottle would retail for ~£80, but the price is higher right now as this is the 50th anniver...

jdaw1 wrote:I have no ’65s. Would you be excessively offended by a Fonseca 1966?

Please, please accept Julian's offer!

Happy to do sighted, but haven't chosen yet. Will advise later.

Yes please.