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Is this cellar run by someone who knows something about wine? - or some unknown buggins from the department for straightening paperclips.. Having been a Civil Servant for two decades (two decades ago) I suspect their wine supplier (BBR?) provides expert advice at huge cost to the tax payer and then...

Interestingly, they store lots of Burgandy, but drink lots of Burgundy

Very interesting. I have been to Vesuvio many times, the last being 11 months ago, and there was no sign of any intention to host visitors on this scale. It has very much been used as a venue for private groups of perhaps ten at most and has no modern comforts so if trains full of visitors expecting...

Longrow 14 yr old sherry cask?

Not that I recall.

I did warn you about the invitations, Paul

If you can't make tomorrow just keep an eye on this section of the forum for forthcoming events, many of which happen at short notice: viewforum.php?f=3

Well, I opened the bottle and tasted the wine. Even though the metal cover seemed to be in good conditions, the cork inside was almost completely damaged and broken. I couldn't pull it out because it falled soon inside the bottle. The taste is not good. Closer to the vinegar than to a porto wine. I...

AHB wrote: ↑

21:46 Fri 06 Jan 2017

- any other 1963 vintage port I've not tried yet (anyone want the list?)

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

15:11 Sat 07 Jan 2017

AHB wrote:(anyone want the list?)

Post it anyway, for the reasons you gave.

AHB has not yet posted the list. Does this mean there are no other 1963 ports that he wants to taste?

The other bucket list port which springs to mind I own already, Cockburn 77. I always wanted to try one but never thought I would get the opportunity. God bless the Symingtons. All I have to do now is wait a few years for the new corks to settle down. They seem to have done so. CMAG and I shared a ...

I would suggest not going for the option of putting these in the cellar and forgetting about them. These bottles were not intended to be aged, they were intended to be drunk. A small number of years is fine but long term storage in bottle will not benefit this wine. You are unlikely to ever recoup w...

After the 2015 vintage there was general contentment that it was 'good enough' to declare, but there was a lack of real excitement. It was also evident that the four year gap since the 2011 vintage meant that a declaration was needed, and the vintage was being banked as a declaration long before th...

/2alph wrote: ↑

17:19 Thu 20 Apr 2017

Vesuvio and Dow's Senhora Ribeira will bottled too

http://blog.symington.com/quinta-do-ves ... -declared/

Interesting!

Presumably that means no classic Dow 2015?

Sensible rules for a better Britain.

AHB for PM?

50th birthday party?

the entire area will be protected by a network of 125 ground generators that cause tiny particles of silver iodide to rise to the clouds above, where they stop the formation of hail stones, and thus reduce the risk of damage. Interesting! I must confess I instantly looked at the date of the article...

I think we have finally managed to implement a solution to this problem that appears to be working.

Well done and thanks to PhilW for finding the new bolt for the door

Unfortunately I will be in Liverpudlium on the 19th. I believe there are trains between Liverpudlium and Londondinium. Therefore your "excuse" is considered feeble and unacceptable. Please come up with a better excuse or I will be forced to open a Nacional 1963 that evening to illustrate why an adv...

Unfortunately I will be in Liverpudlium on the 19th.

Enjoy.

An excellent evening in good company with some lovely Ports. A big thank you to AHB for bringing the Kr65 to celebrate my recent birthday. This showed much better than the two bottles I tasted from the same release last year so hopefully that is an indication that the wine is settling down after re-...

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

19:35 Sun 09 Apr 2017

we are all mortal. We shed our youthful immortality and become at risk. The Vintages, and us as well.

With the help of my Life Coach, I am working on bucking that trend.

Justin K wrote: ↑Maynards 20 year old tawny (Aldi) Sounds awful. I'm stuck here with this Irish bottled Cockburn 55 with fancy writing on the bottle wondering where it came from :roll: - but it's lovely, and I'm glad Julian brought it along :lol: Derek, Still haven't worked out how to refer to othe...

Justin K wrote: ↑

20:25 Sun 02 Apr 2017

Maynards 20 year old tawny (Aldi)

Sounds awful. I'm stuck here with this Irish bottled Cockburn 55 with fancy writing on the bottle wondering where it came from - but it's lovely, and I'm glad Julian brought it along

More than a dozen deleted this evening. Two remain — please could another admin decide whether hostile? Is there an option to require a new member's first post approved before it gets released onto the board? There is that option but with the rate they are coming through it is easier to just lock t...

I have applied the setting whereby all new accounts need to be activated by an Admin. That sorts the problem until we find a stronger automated solution.

We are all trying to keep on top of it but they keep coming through the gate.

The registration process has been changed to see if that has any effect.