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Venue: Left Bank Time: 5pm, 17 May Location: 117 Perry St, New York, NY 10014; between Hudson St & Greenwich St in the West Village Cost: ~$75/pp (including tax & tip) I have reservations for us for 10 people, we can adjust a little if necessary as the date gets closer. JDaw1 has been sortin...

Purchasing a new home and was thinking I could get a few extras for the home if I created a 2000s Dow's Vintage Port Vertical. One bottle each of 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2011. I have enough of each that losing one bottle of each would hardly be noticed. The question I pose is: what do you think a fair...

Just to update - we have the offer of a private apartment with garden in the Lower East side for use for the port tasting, from which we can then relocate ourselves for dinner. How are we all doing on emailing possibilities for JDAW to choose between? How complete is the list? And what are arrangem...

Suggested themes: a selection of 70s, or, a selection of 77's, or a smaller selection of 70vs77. I would suggest we also omit Fonseca; it always shows well from both years and we would have a more educational evening without it as a result. Alternatively, an Oddities theme. Please could there be, f...

If it would help, I could be the Centre (or Center). PM me some possible bottles, and I will select such that, as far as possible, neither shippers nor vintages match. i like it! attendees, please send three options to jdaw that he may impartially select. if anyone needs me to provide an adoptable,...

Suggested themes: a selection of 70s, or, a selection of 77's, or a smaller selection of 70vs77. I would suggest we also omit Fonseca; it always shows well from both years and we would have a more educational evening without it as a result. Alternatively, an Oddities theme. As i'm busy packing port ...

Just to confirm, the preference is still Steakhouse?

I'll throw some themes out here this week: I'm packing up the port cellar (we're moving) so it's a great opportunity to pick a couple of "I have one of these?" ports

All -- sorry for the radio silence; in the midst of a big shift @ home but will tune back in shortly w/ details.

djewesbury wrote:I'm open to the idea of the afternoon, but what would we do afterwards?

I was figuring we'd do tasting then early dinner. Currently looking at a steakhouse and an italian restaurant, will also try to find a contemporary american option.

John M wrote:I believe May 18th is a Monday....if it's the 17th I am definitely out.

You are right, Sunday is May 17 and that is the day we should aim for. What if it was during the day (like 2-6), instead of in the evening? Would that work for you?

djewesbury wrote:Brilliant - Josh, where does that leave us?

Sunday is often a very good day to schedule a tasting Let's aim for May 18.

As always, I will be far more likely to secure us a venue that can accommodate lots of bottles (at low/no corkage) if we don't aim for a friday or saturday evening. That said, I'll start with May 16th as our target date, but we may need to go with Thurs May 21st or Fri May 22nd as alternatives. Glen...

DRT wrote:What about "Possibly the greatest vintage of the second half of the 20th century"?

You're spiraling into "1970: The greatest vintage of 1970"

Only makes it more of a mystery -- we've no tasting reports for Qd Heredias (Hd) either.

First 31 posts of this thread moved by jdaw1 from Summarise a vintage, concisely . Since I'm late to the party: Great topic, and I'm enjoying reading everyone's responses. I would suggest amending 85 from "some great ports, some very good, most merely average" to "some excellent port...

1970 Croft, £50 1977 Warre, £60 1977 Gould Campbell, £60 1983 Warre, £50 1983 Smith Woodhouse, £50 1983 Dow, £50 1985 Churchill, £30 1994 Romaneira, €25 I'm thinking I'd buy 6 bottles of each though I may have to split the collection with one or two others. I would suggest the Croft 70 and Churchil...

Anyone heard of or tried "Quinta de Honor" ? There's an aged tawny and a 97 in a shop near me, but it appears to be an unknown here on TPF.

I'll take the lead on setting something up, getting us a place, etc. Are there particular nights that you are Unavailable?

DRT wrote:

SushiNorth wrote:Marlin … a nice kitchen … a stones throw from Borough Market

… and a man who loves cooking meat.
What could go wrong?

They had something quite wonderful at Borough Market that we rarely get in the states -- small game. Pheasants, quail, rabbit, etc.

SushiNorth did that in London. PM him. I highly recommend Marlin -- they did right by us, and provided a 1 BR w/ a nice kitchen. They also have studios, if you are looking for something smaller. We enjoyed the London Bridge location, as it was a stones throw from Borough Market. So we ate well at t...

I look forward to seeing you gents this evening
Thanks for the heads up Chris

jdaw1 wrote:Cigars?

Not for me, but I'll certainly accompany you if you would like to smoke one.

jdaw1 wrote:I can’t do Friday, alas.

But decision time is imminent. If a change is being considered, PM everybody who has replied to this thread asking what you need to ask. For some decant o’clock is 6am Wednesday.

We are going to stick with Wednesday.

jdaw1 wrote:The tube strike is proving to be a big problem. JES: can it be Thursday?

Could it be Friday or Saturday?

Who is to print the placemats ? I could, but might (and might not) be late. To be or not to be... correction To print or nortt to print this is here the question... :lol: can print if required, but please let me know instructions for the printer; I remeber there was a setting not to miss.... Why do...