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- 10:00 Tue 23 Jan 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: May 23rd, 2024 - LBV - The Young Turks
- Replies: 103
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Re: LBV - The Young Turks
Need to set a date for this. Trying to avoid school hols, bank holiday weeks and other events, how does Thursday April 25th suit people?
- 06:28 Tue 23 Jan 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Thoughts on LBVs
- Replies: 26
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Re: Thoughts on LBVs
I feel like this was the same with more recent Sandeman LBVs that I've tried - massive tannic beasts that really need time to age rather than being blended for drinking on release. My purchase strategy for LBVs is focused on those I think will age the best. Warre currently gets top billing by virtu...
- 16:10 Mon 15 Jan 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Thoughts on LBVs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 96873
Re: Thoughts on LBVs
Unfiltered LBV’s can be very delicious and can generally age nicely for a couple decades. I do find they tend to start losing their luster after about 20-25 yrs. They’re still good but they tend not to have the complexity to carry them into very old age. Of course there are exceptions, I’m speaking...
- 13:51 Wed 10 Jan 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: May 23rd, 2024 - LBV - The Young Turks
- Replies: 103
- Views: 97753
Re: LBV - The Young Turks
Yes please, although I might suggest smaller range of years and more producers? So maybe ditch the 2019 vintage and go for flights of eight? I am most interested in trying different producers - thus I would suggest restricting it to just the 17 and 18 vintages but with 10 'new' producers? This migh...
- 14:23 Tue 09 Jan 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: May 23rd, 2024 - LBV - The Young Turks
- Replies: 103
- Views: 97753
Re: LBV - The Young Turks
Yes please, although I might suggest smaller range of years and more producers? So maybe ditch the 2019 vintage and go for flights of eight? I am most interested in trying different producers - thus I would suggest restricting it to just the 17 and 18 vintages but with 10 'new' producers? This migh...
- 06:49 Tue 09 Jan 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Pointless Statistics
- Replies: 251
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Re: Pointless Statistics
Average age of VP in my cellar is currently 36 years, 10 months, 7 days, 13 hours and 32 minutesThe average age of the Port is 39 years and 292 days (compared with 34 years and 185 days
I have 389 bottles of VP that are older than I am and 1080 bottles that are over 50 years old
- 04:23 Tue 09 Jan 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: May 23rd, 2024 - LBV - The Young Turks
- Replies: 103
- Views: 97753
Re: LBV - The Young Turks
So maybe ditch the 2019 vintage and go for flights of eight?Yes please, although I might suggest smaller range of years and more producers?
- 09:34 Mon 08 Jan 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: May 23rd, 2024 - LBV - The Young Turks
- Replies: 103
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May 23rd, 2024 - LBV - The Young Turks
Date: Thursday May 23rd 2024 Venue: Boot and Flogger - Red room - booked The plan: To purchase two dozen different bottles of LBV from Portugal Vineyards and have them shipped directly to the B&F Four flights of six bottles, two flights from the 2017 vintage and two from the 2018 vintage Each fl...
- 13:20 Sat 06 Jan 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Thoughts on LBVs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 96873
Re: Thoughts on LBVs
Having said that I would love to hear what you're seeing as the relative unknowns (to the less informed UK consumer) that you think are unsung heroes of the LBV market. I'm thinking we should have a tasting event for aspiring LBV producers, from Barao de Vilar to Pacheca to Tecedeiras to Vista Aleg...
- 07:34 Sat 06 Jan 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Thoughts on LBVs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 96873
Thoughts on LBVs
There are at present around 100 different LBVs on the market, no fewer than 74 of them stocked by messrs Portugal Vineyards. Of those 74, only 19 have T stopper closures, suggesting most are age worthy wines, but few describe themselves as 'unfiltered'. The 19 however are almost all high volume bran...
- 06:20 Sat 06 Jan 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Pointless Statistics
- Replies: 251
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Re: Pointless Statistics
Nearly twenty years ago now, I has this little idea.. ..that it would be fun to create a port cellar that could yield a centenarian bottle of VP every year in perpetuity - There's been a bit of mission creep since then.. :roll: With the 1924's now turning 100 I now have over 100 bottles (107 to be p...
- 16:43 Wed 13 Dec 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Xmas 2023 - The Unknown Shipper & His Peculiar Friends
- Replies: 57
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Re: Xmas 2023 - The Unknown Shipper & His Peculiar Friends
Steaks collected, Burton's 14oz fillet as usual.
- 16:28 Thu 07 Dec 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Xmas 2023 - The Unknown Shipper & His Peculiar Friends
- Replies: 57
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Re: Xmas 2023 - The Unknown Shipper & His Peculiar Friends
And this year's cheeses will be:
Village Maid - Maida Vale - ale washed soft cheese
Sparkenhoe - Red Leicester
Northampton Blue - a soft creamy blue cheese
Isle of Mull Cheddar - fairly soft and full flavoured
Village Maid - Maida Vale - ale washed soft cheese
Sparkenhoe - Red Leicester
Northampton Blue - a soft creamy blue cheese
Isle of Mull Cheddar - fairly soft and full flavoured
- 17:10 Mon 04 Dec 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Xmas 2023 - The Unknown Shipper & His Peculiar Friends
- Replies: 57
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Re: Xmas 2023 - The Unknown Shipper & His Peculiar Friends
My bottle selected - suitably ancient, vintage and bottler known, shipper a mystery.
Will prepare the usual fare - Salmon, fillet steaks and chips, vanilla ice cream with gravy, assorted British cheeses and a few mince pies.
Will prepare the usual fare - Salmon, fillet steaks and chips, vanilla ice cream with gravy, assorted British cheeses and a few mince pies.
- 19:24 Thu 16 Nov 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
- Replies: 31
- Views: 64595
Re: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
I'm wondering whether we might resurrect 'the elegant luncheon' on the day before the Xmas bash - and consume this bottle along with various wines, not necessarily port, at a suitable London venue?
- 18:06 Tue 24 Oct 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2021 Declarations
- Replies: 30
- Views: 50232
Re: 2021 Declarations
I am late on parade with my annual vintage rankings this year because I'm struggling to make sense of this vintage. On the one hand we have a very small list of declared VPs, this is one of the rare years when the biggest names are offering neither their declared blends nor an SQVP - but on the othe...
- 19:05 Fri 20 Oct 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Vintage at last??
- Replies: 18
- Views: 31693
Re: Vintage at last??
So.. not a great year by the sounds of it.
Now the vintage is wrapped up, is it looking like a poor, bad or terrible one?
Now the vintage is wrapped up, is it looking like a poor, bad or terrible one?
- 19:03 Fri 20 Oct 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Bottles you never want to open
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16336
Re: Bottles you never want to open
I hold to the principle that no bottle is too rare or too old to be drunk eventually, but I also maintain the principle that the last bottle from any vintage should be preserved until at least it's 200th year. Thus I have only one bottle of 1923 vintage port - a magnum of Offley - which is now merel...
- 18:58 Fri 20 Oct 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
- Replies: 31
- Views: 64595
Re: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
I can manage any of those14th or the 21st or the 28th work for me
- 18:29 Thu 19 Oct 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
- Replies: 31
- Views: 64595
Re: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
Agree - dates in mid Nov that work better for people?Tom, This looks like you me and Julian unless a re-jig of the date to allow other friends to attend .... which feels like the right thing to do .....
- 16:12 Sat 14 Oct 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
- Replies: 31
- Views: 64595
Re: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
OK - looking like the 24th..
..any more takers? My bottle doesn't mind younger friends!
..any more takers? My bottle doesn't mind younger friends!
- 20:41 Sat 30 Sep 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
- Replies: 31
- Views: 64595
Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
I quite enjoy writing Excel VB code - my magnum opus to date has been a piece of code, now nearly 2000 lines long and with nearly 60 defined variables, whose sole purpose was to choose my next bottle of port to drink at home. It started out quite humbly, and every time I disagreed with it's call, I ...
- 17:32 Mon 21 Aug 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
- Replies: 73
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Re: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
That does not appear to be the remnants of a Selo. Rather it appears to be an old tax stamp. It also looks like the capsule has already been cut around the base of the t-cork. Better pics are needed. I would love this to be a genuine original bottle - as a collector, 1925 is one of my missing vinta...
- 17:51 Fri 28 Jul 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Vintage at last??
- Replies: 18
- Views: 31693
Vintage at last??
The late Michael Broadbent hailed the '55 vintage with the words 'Vintage at last' After a run of good vintages in the 40s, there was a long gap between '48 and the next serious vintage. There's been a similarly long gap today since the last vintage the trade could all rally around. - But what are t...
- 17:43 Fri 28 Jul 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Unusual Shaped Port Bottle
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17108
Re: Unusual Shaped Port Bottle
I've not seen one like it before, so wonder whether it might be a manufacturing error that found its way out into the big bad world. The flat surface looks as though the hot glass got laid on a flat metal surface before it had cooled sufficiently to hold its shape. - Certainly a curiosity to hang onto