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Any more food orders? I have to submit our food order tomorrow.. Food order being sent this evening. Please inspect now. Harry has been pinged. sirloin steak I’ve guessed medium-rare. Sorry to change the plan a bit but I find that I have a second bottle that I'm able to bring so Julian would you mi...

Placemats updated.

My preference would be not to Audouze, but to open and decant on the morning. Is there an official decanting request?

CPR 1 wrote: ↑20:57 Wed 28 Feb 2024Suggest we add an extra spot or 2 in case extra bottles appear

Done.

Current draft of the placemats added to the first post. Somebody please check.

Yes, and no. Somehow the 1986 has been ‘stolen’, so I am bringing for me and for BP adoption, the 1981 and 1982. (The 1984 has not been stolen, but has been promised to Harry, so off-limits.)

Placemats: please could the organiser select which of the offered Ports are to be tasted. Placemats are traditionally slightly traditional, in that they at least echo previous precedent for the theme. So: Jan 2021 — could reuse the font /GothamNarrow-Bold ; Mar 2018 — not much liked; Apr 2013 — inco...

Please:
• Soup of day;
• Bangers and chips instead of mash;
• Welsh obvious.

Not sure if this post is allowed Definitely allowed. As a better fit to Port Conversations , moved to there. Been collecting the 1992 vintages for a while now and have bought multiple bottles of all but one of the declared 1992's. For a tasting somewhere in the future, Good work. Here you will fit ...

Please, from the menu: Devon Crab; Steak and Claret Pie, and carrots; Welsh Rarebit.

(Edited after George’s post: he was correct to add carrots.)

winesecretary wrote: ↑22:51 Fri 23 Feb 2024I am all in favour of defiant port tastings. It smacks of cool rad street cred.

For exactly the same reason, I am defiantly against this modern nonsense.

cem wrote: ↑14:47 Thu 01 Feb 2024Voting best fortifieds and best unfortifieds

Hence they need separate voting pages. Cliff has revealed four of each; Alex has told me that his is fortified; and I reveal likewise. These implemented (see first post): others welcome to reveal their fortifiedness, or not.

mcoulson wrote: ↑15:34 Mon 19 Feb 2024 is defiantly happening

This is a Port tasting. We are not defiant revolutionaries; we are traditionalist scientists testing hypotheses.

Draft of the placemats added to first post.

cem wrote: ↑14:47 Thu 01 Feb 2024with places for up to 14 people total.

For reason of table space, please can it be restricted to eleven people, so at most one more.

cem wrote: ↑14:47 Thu 01 Feb 2024Rule 2: No 21st Century wines.

How pedantic are you?

My cigars, since purchase stored perfectly by Alfred Dunhill, are being auctioned at CGars, March 2024. My lots are 3, 4, 30, 38–41, 44, 47, and 52.

Some juicy bits in this. As an answer to the original post, my favourites: the desire to select a small number of grape varieties (5-6), and chosen for their contribution of colour. I have no doubt at all that de-stemming and taking out the stalks from a fermentation makes a fundamental change in th...

I have few ’77s; CEM has many, and also I have drunk very well from from CEM’s cellar. So the fair thing is to move me to first reserve, thus promoting CEM into the fourteenth seat. Yes please, I have 'some' of this vintage and can help with adoption if needed Translation: ‘some’ = approximately eve...

MigSU wrote: ↑18:41 Sat 10 Feb 2024That worries me. I sincerely hope that, in the quest to make VPs more approachable at a younger age, producers haven't stunted their long term longevity.

The observation is that Port seems to age slower. That might well be the opposite of “stunted their long term longevity”.

Yes please. I have Taylor.

Is 30-year-old Vintage Port darker than it used to be? At yesterday’s Vesuvio tasting , the early 1990s VPs were dark. As best I can recall, 1963s were definitely paler than that in the early 1990s, and near the turn of the millennium 1970s were definitely paler than that. This observation is not sp...

mcoulson wrote: ↑20:59 Sat 03 Feb 2024If you can make the tweak George suggests that would be great

CPR = Charles, whose tweak is done. Is there another fix that I’m missing?

CPR 1 wrote: ↑20:39 Sat 03 Feb 2024If not too late could we adjust the placemats so that the 07 and 07 Capella are side by side, and the same for the two 11? (Move 05 to top right, and then the pairs below)

Believed done. Please check satisfactory.

Who is to print the placemats?

Yes please.

I said that

jdaw1 wrote: ↑23:31 Sat 27 Jan 2024A quorum shall be three.

If we aren’t three by 20:00 tonight = Sunday, then my emergency can be a home-alone†-emergency.


† Alone meaning without you splendid people. Family are in a different category.

1994s: I have Martinez, Noval, Dow, Graham.