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- 09:42 Fri 02 Mar 2018
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tue 17th April 2018: cellar reduction and health check
- Replies: 40
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Re: Tue 17th April 2018: cellar reduction and health check
Count me in Magnus. Difficult to know yet whether I can help with decanting, but I’ll try and protect my diary to make it possible. Also, if all the bottles are coming from the same storage then you could maybe have them shipped directly to the B&F? Great! You have been added. Good idea about s...
- 09:10 Fri 02 Mar 2018
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tue 17th April 2018: cellar reduction and health check
- Replies: 40
- Views: 60140
Re: Tue 17th April 2018: cellar reduction and health check
I’ll check my work diary tomorrow mornings and let you know. Would you like any contributions from attendees either in the form of port or in the form of cash for the evening? It would be great if you can make it! No contributions in any form are required for the ports. Food bill dealt with as per ...
- 14:39 Mon 26 Feb 2018
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tue 17th April 2018: cellar reduction and health check
- Replies: 40
- Views: 60140
Re: Tue 17th April 2018: cellar reduction and health check
I'd be up for this as my diary appears free for this day. I wouldn't be able to help with decanting since will be coming in from Reading but hopefully, someone(s) can step in. Failing that, we could always ask the B&F-I believe they've done some decanting for us before? Excellent! Attendee list...
- 13:49 Mon 26 Feb 2018
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tue 17th April 2018: cellar reduction and health check
- Replies: 40
- Views: 60140
Re: Tue 17th April 2018: cellar reduction and health check
Sounds good. I have updated the first post to hold list of attendees. Thanks for booking the B&F.
- 10:57 Mon 26 Feb 2018
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tue 17th April 2018: cellar reduction and health check
- Replies: 40
- Views: 60140
Tue 17th April 2018: cellar reduction and health check
I am scheduled to attend a conference in London 17-18 April (Tue - Wed), but will arrive in the afternoon on the 16th (Monday). I would really like to meet up over some port at the B&F and was thinking of bringing some bottles out of storage in the interest of doing a "health check" on...
- 10:24 Tue 03 Oct 2017
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: What do you have most of?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 16170
Re: What do you have most of?
Undisputed first place - Graham 1994; then Fonseca 1985, Offley Boa Vista 1994 and Graham 1970, where only a few bottles differ between second and fourth place.
- 14:12 Mon 10 Apr 2017
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9969
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is "a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels." Anyone can submit an entry (or several) and the site is a treasure trove of exceptionally bad opening sentences of fiction. ...
- 05:13 Wed 05 Apr 2017
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 128625
Re: Port and literature
In Our Game by Le Carré: I remember thinking, as the thousand-voiced choir of angels struck up inside my head, that if you're celebrating your emergence from the black light, a bottle of '55 Cheval Blanc and a large dose of Graham's '27 port make an appropriately celestial accompaniment. Great autho...
- 13:36 Thu 30 Mar 2017
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: One quiz at a time
- Replies: 9703
- Views: 1821635
Re: One quiz at a time
A Broken Frame - Depeche Mode.
- 09:57 Fri 10 Mar 2017
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: 80s Majors Matrix, Thursday 9 March 2017
- Replies: 21
- Views: 27740
Re: 80s Majors Matrix, Thursday 9 March 2017
Looks like a great evening, i have assumed a dark green shade of envy. Some observations from the score sheet: 1. No points awarded to any port from 1983. In fact, Phil's 1/2 point to T80 implies this was preferable to any wine from 1983. Was the competition too fierce or were the wines simply not t...
- 10:39 Tue 24 Jan 2017
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port Vintages - Slow to mature but worth the wait...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10119
Re: Port Vintages - Slow to mature but worth the wait...
Incredible work! I am looking forward to getting my hands on this.
- 22:40 Tue 01 Nov 2016
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tues Dec 13th 2016 - Noval vertical
- Replies: 84
- Views: 60721
Re: Tues Dec 13th 2016 - Noval vertical
Alas, i am now unable to attend because of work. My 94 and/or 97 are though, should they be required.
Magnus
Magnus
- 16:59 Mon 17 Oct 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Handwriting questions
- Replies: 258
- Views: 78552
Re: Handwriting questions
Alas, i am stumped. If only jdaw, before dreaming about opening the bottle, had also imagined a pencil and drawing paper with which to transfer the embossed details, however faint, onto the paper.
- 06:45 Sun 16 Oct 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: JDAW dreams of Portugal - Harvest 2016
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20252
Re: JDAW dreams of Portugal - Harvest 2016
My silence should not be interpreted as anything other than eager anticipation of the next instalment, awaited with bated breath.
- 14:24 Thu 13 Oct 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 1994; Where's the value?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15897
Re: 1994; Where's the value?
In addition to the sound advice above I would add Offley Boa Vista 1994, a port which I found over delivered when compared to price.
- 20:19 Thu 22 Sep 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2014 - which birthyear port to buy?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2031
2014 - which birthyear port to buy?
No.2 child was born in 2014, and unfortunately the port gods did not smile as happily on that year as they did on 2011 when No.1 was born. I would be very grateful for any ideas of ports to buy where the grapes were harvested before the deluge. I note that Noval just released 1,000 cases but am comp...
- 15:18 Wed 07 Sep 2016
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tues Dec 13th 2016 - Noval vertical
- Replies: 84
- Views: 60721
Re: Tues Dec 13th 2016 - Noval vertical
Like SCP I am also not yet sure about whether I am able to attend, but the better half, in a moment of severe weakness, positively encouraged me to attend. I feel obliged therefore to do as I have been told.. Depending on the date I would very much like to join. Alas, I can only offer '94 and '97 bu...
- 12:06 Mon 22 Aug 2016
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Tue 16 Aug 2016, Boot & Flogger, Emergency
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16606
Re: RE: Re: Tue 16 Aug 2016, Boot & Flogger, Emergency
You generally have a pretty high hit rate as a group if not consistently as individuals. Are you saying that, if there are enough guesses, usually one throw lands near the target? Sensing a trap along the lines of statistics, whether it is real or not, I am trying to say that together a handful of ...
- 07:59 Mon 22 Aug 2016
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Tue 16 Aug 2016, Boot & Flogger, Emergency
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16606
Re: Tue 16 Aug 2016, Boot & Flogger, Emergency
The guesses for Croft 1960 stood out as wildly inaccurate, which is not in line with the abilities of you lot normally. Really? Have you been to our tastings? You generally have a pretty high hit rate as a group if not consistently as individuals. Compared to my own inability to tell chalk from che...
- 18:46 Sun 21 Aug 2016
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Tue 16 Aug 2016, Boot & Flogger, Emergency
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16606
Re: Tue 16 Aug 2016, Boot & Flogger, Emergency
Looks like a nice evening was had, wish i could have been there. The guesses for Croft 1960 stood out as wildly inaccurate, which is not in line with the abilities of you lot normally. Was it really that youthful, and if so, how certain are you that the wine was what it claimed to be? I've only had ...
- 15:35 Sun 21 Aug 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2105
- Views: 894468
Re: Latest buy
Having just drunk and enjoyed a bottle of 1980 Warre (note here ) I happened to notice a half case for £150 in bond at Berrys. I almost wonder if it was a mistake, so overpriced are most listings on BBX. However I do not feel I can cavil at £25/bottle for a 36 year old port. Alright I know l shall ...
- 15:31 Sun 21 Aug 2016
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1977 Cockburn
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3786
Re: 1977 Cockburn
It was definitely a chunk of cork. The cork I pulled came out completely intact and had not been in long enough to acquire any stain or colouration.
- 09:04 Sat 20 Aug 2016
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1977 Cockburn
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3786
1977 Cockburn
Having been remiss in my port drinking of late, a bottle of Ck77 was offered like a paschal lamb. Decanting revealed (i) remnants of the old cork prior to recorking, (ii) a very pale port of approx. 30 % opacity, (iii) large flaky sediment on the subsequent rinse and most promisingly, (iv) an inviti...
- 21:44 Thu 30 Jun 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Three new members of the Confraria
- Replies: 23
- Views: 26526
Re: Three new members of the Confraria
Indeed, and the hubcaps on your chests are also impressive. Makes me think of Run Dmc and the clocks they wore on stage. [emoji6]jdaw1 wrote:Rugged good looks all round.
- 15:49 Sun 26 Jun 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Three new members of the Confraria
- Replies: 23
- Views: 26526
Re: Three new members of the Confraria
Brilliant news! Congratulations to all three! Truly well earned.