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Derek T. wrote:
Guilty - can I call in a favour and book a private cell?

Sure! I'll have Bubba moved to a different one. Would you like some 1974 Noval Colheita or some 2000 Taylor LBV with your microwave dinner

But a wine maker choses between many many casks of port to blend their house style with tawnys. With VP he doesn't have that ability as it is soley dependant on the years growing season. That is not to say that VP's don't have a "style" as the grapes typically come from the same properties...

Ohh yeah...I age very well for 65 don't I. I got the body of a 35 year old

Thanks Derek...tomorrow is the big dinner celebration and I can't wait. Tonight I am stuck at home with a Dodds Mosley Cellars Delorean (Cabernet Sauvignon/Syrah blend). Not bad and it was the first wine a very good friend of mine produced. Next up is a 1990 Niepoort Colheita...I think...Hmm, maybe ...

Youngling homicide...quick call a Bobby

It really depends on the house, how often they bottle, if the stocks used are all from their regular properties, if they buy older stocks from other producers, etc. That said, I think it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to tell the difference between bottles that were bottled only one yea...

I've found that as it gets older it goes from more of a silty sediment to a flakey sediment. Unless the bottle was shaken up real good a short time before hand, where its all a mess at that point.

Im probably late here, but open a full bottle you wimp you need plenty to carry you through today and tomorrow

Its looking more and more like I probably won't be able to make this one after all. All hope is not lost, and I'll keep you all up speed on things as I find out more.

1990 Vesuvio "Toe-jam" Reserva

I dont want to spoil my last bit of hope imagining that some nasty british-american feet, who were not washed a lot during this tour beforehand left their mark in the wine as well :) Why else would people prefer VPs made from foot trodden grapes over mechanically trodden grapes? :wink: :lol: My fee...

Presumably the seventh is named within the previous post? No. He lives in Southern California, likes chemicals and hasn't been seen around here for some time. Those who you have met are: AHB ADV Christopher Derek T. EricD Roy Hersh he actually lives in central California :roll: We Californians are ...

Andy, If you try to hang that bin label on a bottle in a regular rack, it crashes onto the bottle below and looks stupid.. Fine for bins holding bottles by the hundred, but who has those these days? I have this horrid feeling that the bin label probably costs as much as a bottle to produce... Tom G...

uncle tom wrote: The only problem is what do about those pottery bin labels...

...suggestions?

Tom

Hang it off the neck of a bottle in your racking. They work quite well

Andy - I believe that Berry Brothers are planning a complete Vesuvio vertical this Autumn. I've no idea what the cost will be yet. Do you want me to see if I can influence the choice of date so that it falls into the week that includes October 8? Alex Now that would be very nice. I'm sure with a li...

Conky wrote:

We could have shared a bottle over The Grand National. (Tell me you know what that is?)

The what

I'm only a short plane ride away...well maybe not so short

It is lightly filtered, so its not a true "Unfiltered" Port.

Conky wrote:
But I'd love to expand my knowledge with an early 90's.

OK...thats easy enough...consider it done!

I think scary little man is a better description... In November 1997 Glitter was arrested after child pornography images were discovered on the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop that he had taken to the Bristol Causeway branch of PC World for repair. The following years held further trouble for the sin...

Ok, I'm a little bit into a couple bottles so bear with me :roll: yes its an average age of about 3-4 years. but it was really like a lower ranked unfiltered LBV. A crusted, in my opinion, is a bit better than a good unfiltered LBV and a big step up than the Rosa Lot 601. But if I had to by a Graham...

Conky wrote:I've sadly never tried a Vesuvio's

OMFG!!! I see what I need to bring later this year for you to try.

Then again...maybe one of the days I'm there a Vesuvio vertical may be in order

Who's Gary Glitter?????

Derek T. wrote:

ADV wrote: I've been lucky enough to hang out and talk for long periods with some of my favorite bands

Have you really met Britney, Christina and New Kids on the Block?

And Cher and N'Sync

Excellant, I'll bring the Port

I think an offline is in order. By my reckoning this forum has generated more port offlines than any other port forum on the planet so that has to be the way to cellebrate our 1st birthday? Derek can you hold off on that until I get there in October....speaking of which...Conky, I am getting my RSV...