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Not what I had in mind, but better than Acting Deputy Vice Junior Under Decanting Assistant.

DRT wrote:Honoured Guest x 2 (looking promising)

Please let me know if you want to be upgraded from possible to confirmed.

Please upgrade me from ‟confirmed” to ‟Honoured Guest”.

We have a HUGE, ECLECTIC new cellar today. A collector is lending us his wine, so he can make some room for more on the way. We only have the list until Friday, so be the first to bank on some amazing wines. There are some real steals....believe us! ! Osborne Late Bottled 1985 ~ 1 @ $38 Warre Reser...

Prices looked expensive, but odd bottles are worth recording anyway they might be needed to complete a tasting.

A few days ago I happened to pass De Lauren Wines, tel +1 212 255 0854, at 332 Eighth Avenue (between 26th and 27th Streets), NY 10001.

• $100 Dow’s 1982 Reserve Single-Year Tawny;
• $50 Crasto 2000;
• $20 KWV 1993 LBV.

Is the first of these a colheita? Is this a new identity for these? What’s happening?

Happened to pass by Golden Rule Wine & Liquor Store of 457 Hudson Street NY 10014, tel 212 924 6340 (though it has a useless website), and noticed:

• $90 Cockburn Canais 1992;
• $85 Smith Woodhouse 1985;
• $26 Churchill LBV 2000; and
• $30 Smith Woodhouse LBV 1994.

And if you want placemats please post, in one place, a list of who and what and when and where.

First draft. In the morning I won’t like it I never do. Dear Johnny Graham, I’m writing on behalf of a small port-tasting group in New York you might perhaps have encountered our website ThePortForum.com. The few of us who have tried Churchill vintage ports speak well of them, especially the 1985, ...

Sounds delicious, though I’d have stuffed the tail into the camel spider.

How did you cook the tail? And you served it with a small glass of tawny port, presumably.

My Ch85s are in the UK.

Churchill is greatly under-rated. Having started as recently as 1982, we just don’t know how big vintages will mature. But the Ch85 is lovely.

jfacciol wrote:Drinking is fun but, without a theme, it is just drinking--something I (like many others) enjoy and engage in occasionally. but it does not interest me intellectually, as a proper tasting does.

Drinking with a theme is more interesting I wholeheartedly agree with that.

Simple solution.
1. Confirm November.
2. Arrange something smaller for May (whilst I’m still in NY, I add).
3. Post TN on Osborne 10Y tawny.

Separately, as Jeff almost asked, where should this be held? With a new-born and a three-year-old, my apartment will be a no-go.

Notwithstanding the work-in-progress called Discussion: Guide to cost sharing of bottles , costs need to be determined. Market value has considerable merit. But, for there is a but, I am likely to move to the old world. That makes me, in some sense, a forced seller. (Not thoroughly forced, but let’s...

Unusually for me, I don’t have a clear opinion. Partly for reasons that Glenn states, using the current market price (as approximated by wine-searcher) has a fairness about it. Using cost price after a period of luxury-goods inflation implies a certain subsidy to those who have smaller cellars. And ...

Confirmed.

1991 Ramos-Pinto: received in the post from Eric D, so decanting time unknown. Strong nose of cedar and smoke and dark stewed fruit. Taste simpler, being sweet, stewed plums, and medium length. Very sweet indeed. Nice juice; needs another half decade.

But I didn’t have a strong opinion! Yes, it would have been better, but I went with the flow for the Graham vertical, and just didn’t have a strong opinion.

Cost works for me I’ve been going with the flow to date.

Well, I could stay a bit longer.

So you’d better be on best behaviour. Or I’ll, errr, I’ll, errr, drink the sample of RP91 that came in today’s post. Which will teach you!

Luckier than you deserved. Use a ladder next time.

Cellar racks nine feet high? Cool!

The 1989½Â±4½ Cálem was better than both of its components.

Are home-made blends going to become standard practice?