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Thank you all for some very insightful replies. I read somewhere that the new wine decided for maturation in wood and that for maturation in bottle is chosen due to the wine’s characteristics and expectations. So it is not just making a big batch of wine and then splitting it for wood maturation and...

I am wondering if anybody has an opinion on this.
When port is maturing, does the process go faster in wood than in bottle?

https://www.whiskybase.com/whisky/81978/glenlossie-1992-smws-4639 https://www.whiskybase.com/whisky/83268/longmorn-2004-smws-7132 Here you can find some more info about those two whiskies. It seems that 55% ABV was an understatement. ps I know more about whisky than sherry. So I guess slightly wrong...

46 Glenlossie I have not tried, but 7 Longmorn is one of my favourite distilleries.
We have a state monopoly on alcohol in Norway so no SMWS bottlings here, but the choise is quite good, but rather pricey.
You might start to widen your horizon even more, as far as drinks are concerned then?

You’re welcome, and it is a good site.
If you are interested in whisky, Ruben is on to that as well.
https://www.whiskynotes.be/

Try http://www.sherrynotes.com/ by Ruben Luyten, Belgium.
He covers basics to advanced, and also gives recomendations. I bought some of the rec. last year, and was not disappointed.

Slippers, cigar and after dinner snooze?

The TNs here will, for me at least, be very interesting reading.

Fonseca 1977.
A marvellous port, hence the disappointment all the greater.

Bottle sizes? e.g. 0,75 vs 1 litre.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑20:37 Sun 05 Mar 2017 Aspen (Populus tremula)?

Absolutely!

jdaw1 makes the next question.

It is a favourite food for beavers.
We had 3 large trees growing 5 - 6 meters from the house, and one night 20 years ago, 2 fell at the teeth of beavers. Luckily they fell away from the house.
So now there is only one left.

Sorry, neither chestnut nor ash.

The leaves have the fantastic ability to rustle softly in the breeze.

So not yew.

Could easily have been a Norway spruce, but it is a decidous tree.

Plenty of Birch here, but not correct this time.

Sorry, no.
No wild Sycamore here.

No natural oak where I live, and the tree in question is not planted.

Taylor's Late Bottled Vintage 2011. Very pleasant. Try substituting Stilton with Cashel Blue, a fabulous cheese!

Thank you.
Outside our house we have a large tree. What tree is it?

Viola?

Piano, but that is probably too mundane.

Glockenspiel, just to please her father.

Well, then I learned something new today. Timpani spelled with a "y" is the old fashion way of spelling it. However, I am an old fashion guy.