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I love coincidences. Yesterday I had to put some cheques into my personal account but had no paying in slips - used them all up. My local NatWest will allow me to pay into my RBS account only if I have an RBS slip, so I was about to toddle off into town. Hadn't had a new cheque book in nearly two ye...

Look after yourselves and make sure Luka doesn't float off down the river in his basket - that could cause all sorts of problems

Griff, welcome and good to have an Aussie poster.

Not sure whether my offlines with Aussie (Gas Man or Zammo), TORB and Red Bigot count as TPF events, especially as no Port was had, some port maybe. However, a trip to Perth is not out of the question.

Good to have you here,

Alex

1986 and 1988 have been extracted from their coffins

Thoroughly enjoyable evening. Thanks to Richard for the stunning combination of 1976 FG and 1977 Fonseca. I think that Fonseca 1977 is a lovely Port but a little over-rated, it was probably the best Port for drinking now. Pairing with the 1976 proved this point without any doubt as the supposedly se...

I can bring 86, 88 and 96 Guimaraens - willing to supply two, three would just be getting heavy.

Now that the M-i-L has been informed, I am permitted to announce Read jr II. He / she will be more formally named around 1st December 2010. In the meantime, I can report that the current growing conditions for vintage port have been considered favourable to the extent I was able to establish this o...

First things first - Happy Birthday Tom, again. Second things second - thank Al B for organising the event. Great (even though obvious) theme; liked the venue and talking to the Aussie guy at the end, looks like we could improve by telling him to get aged steaks in, in advance. Most impressive thing...

Ah now, yes. Does this include the loony bargains that we sometimes get in the UK, or worse, what Tom picks up at auctions?

smisse wrote:I'll check how many he has available.

Thanks - that will be thoroughly appreciated

RonnieRoots wrote:12,50 is a steal. A couple of years ago the standard price was between 25-30 euro.

My thoughts exactly. Smisse, please buy as many as you can and we will retrieve them from you at the Dutch off-line. Happy to transfer cash upfront.

I'm in

g-man wrote:very sad to not have met up with you guysm, but I was very lucky to have caught a plane back to the states before volcano faweofiqicffecv erupted again.

Were you in town? I had no idea, I would have travelled down.

Port of Interest - oh go on then, put me down. No, not like a dog or even a heckler, but as I'd like to go.

There was a flavour profile that we picked up in the 63/66/70 tasting that Sandeman had. I thought that it was 'musty' that we described it as but another person's nose may describe it in other ways. When we tried the Sandeman's blind, it was spotted immediately. I like Sandeman's but up against the...

As I've pointed out in another thread about some alternate sticky stuff, WS has awarded 100points to the Campbell's Merchant Prince Muscat, a wine of genuine loveliness. Personally, I prefer the Isabella Tokay (with a paltry 98 RP points), at exactly the same price. Campbell's kept both at their sta...

mosesbotbol wrote:Cleanskins sounds like a brand of condoms... Not an appealing name for a wine.

First of all, it's not a brand, it's a concept. Secondly, this is a country that had a brand of sticky tape called Durex. I need say no more.

I'm not going to put these things in the fridge, they don't need it. I took a Morris along to a farewell party on Friday and it turned out to be excessively popular, to the extent that a trip to Rutherglen, to buy the cellar-door stuff, looked on for the hosts.

It is true though that Australia makes some very, very good stickies. Better than port? I don't know, different and great in its own right. Absolutely right Ronald. I hate the 'better than' idea but it was a deliberate change of title to get a reaction. This stuff needs to be tasted by the people o...

Well this thread caused a stampede of enthusiasm. Think I will change the thread title to cause a disturbance. Went to Rutherglen and did a bit of tasting. The stickies are not as popular as the dries which amazed me. However, there were some exceptional things on offer. Went to see Campbells, Stant...

1. Happy Birthday Tom; 2. I have just agreed to teach an on-line course on Friday morning, which may have been an error of judgement. I like to stop up as well. However, jet-lag will probably kick in about then and who knows when I'll be able to sleep or just fall asleep unexpectedly? Will probably ...

Doh - I meant the ones that were born to members since started. I can name a few but thought it best if said members updated it themselves.

I think we need to keep tabs on babies. There seem to be a few now. I will set up a thread somewhere, could all proud parents please drop the kids off at the pool, please?

TPF Babies

Stub - please fill in. I'm not stealing any doting father or mother's thunder.

Welcome to the boards.

g-man's suggestion will get your signature changed but sadly not your ID. I've sent you a PM, please respond I will sort it out,

Alex