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by uncle tom
19:05 Fri 20 Oct 2023
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Vintage at last??
Replies: 18
Views: 21837

Re: Vintage at last??

So.. not a great year by the sounds of it.

Now the vintage is wrapped up, is it looking like a poor, bad or terrible one?
by uncle tom
19:03 Fri 20 Oct 2023
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Bottles you never want to open
Replies: 15
Views: 10138

Re: Bottles you never want to open

I hold to the principle that no bottle is too rare or too old to be drunk eventually, but I also maintain the principle that the last bottle from any vintage should be preserved until at least it's 200th year. Thus I have only one bottle of 1923 vintage port - a magnum of Offley - which is now merel...
by uncle tom
18:58 Fri 20 Oct 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
Replies: 31
Views: 45393

Re: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..

14th or the 21st or the 28th work for me
I can manage any of those
by uncle tom
18:29 Thu 19 Oct 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
Replies: 31
Views: 45393

Re: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..

Tom, This looks like you me and Julian unless a re-jig of the date to allow other friends to attend .... which feels like the right thing to do .....
Agree - dates in mid Nov that work better for people?
by uncle tom
16:12 Sat 14 Oct 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
Replies: 31
Views: 45393

Re: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..

OK - looking like the 24th..

..any more takers? My bottle doesn't mind younger friends!
by uncle tom
20:41 Sat 30 Sep 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..
Replies: 31
Views: 45393

Emergency - Constantino 1947 - and friends..

I quite enjoy writing Excel VB code - my magnum opus to date has been a piece of code, now nearly 2000 lines long and with nearly 60 defined variables, whose sole purpose was to choose my next bottle of port to drink at home. It started out quite humbly, and every time I disagreed with it's call, I ...
by uncle tom
17:32 Mon 21 Aug 2023
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port
Replies: 73
Views: 92245

Re: 1925 Taylor Fladgate & Yeatman Vargellas port

That does not appear to be the remnants of a Selo. Rather it appears to be an old tax stamp. It also looks like the capsule has already been cut around the base of the t-cork. Better pics are needed. I would love this to be a genuine original bottle - as a collector, 1925 is one of my missing vinta...
by uncle tom
17:51 Fri 28 Jul 2023
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Vintage at last??
Replies: 18
Views: 21837

Vintage at last??

The late Michael Broadbent hailed the '55 vintage with the words 'Vintage at last' After a run of good vintages in the 40s, there was a long gap between '48 and the next serious vintage. There's been a similarly long gap today since the last vintage the trade could all rally around. - But what are t...
by uncle tom
17:43 Fri 28 Jul 2023
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Unusual Shaped Port Bottle
Replies: 15
Views: 11286

Re: Unusual Shaped Port Bottle

I've not seen one like it before, so wonder whether it might be a manufacturing error that found its way out into the big bad world. The flat surface looks as though the hot glass got laid on a flat metal surface before it had cooled sufficiently to hold its shape. - Certainly a curiosity to hang onto
by uncle tom
00:19 Tue 25 Jul 2023
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Is it wrong to decant cold?
Replies: 9
Views: 3986

Re: Is it wrong to decant cold?

I think people vex too much on this issue, especially when handling robust wines, which can include those of some antiquity. When handling very frail wines, both fortfied and non fortified, prior resting for a few months can be very beneficial; but I can't make a scientific case to explain why. I do...
by uncle tom
12:21 Sun 09 Jul 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 63@60 2023 - 18th July 2023 - bring a bottle event
Replies: 63
Views: 58563

Re: 63@60 2023 - 18th July 2023 - bring a bottle event

Regret I am going to have to pull out of this one, as I'm wanted in China..

While you are sitting down to enjoy fine VP, I will be having my first experience of flying with Virgin, probably somewhere over India, given that Russia is off limits..

..no idea what port they have on board!
by uncle tom
22:19 Thu 06 Jul 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 63@60 2023 - 18th July 2023 - bring a bottle event
Replies: 63
Views: 58563

Re: 63@60 2023 - 18th July 2023 - bring a bottle event

Pretty please.. ..may I provide the Fonseca? My computer has ordered me to drink an F63 this month and it seems an offence against nature to do so on my own, at home.. Forum lurkers out there please note: I am struggling to consume my quota of veteran bottles each year - please step forward and prov...
by uncle tom
20:37 Wed 14 Jun 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 63@60 2023 - 18th July 2023 - bring a bottle event
Replies: 63
Views: 58563

Re: 63@60 2023 - 18th July 2023 - bring a bottle event

Stick me on the reserves list pls.

Have an elegant over-sufficiency of '63, so happy to help anyone strugglng for a bottle..
by uncle tom
09:53 Tue 06 Jun 2023
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1983 Noval Nacional
Replies: 8
Views: 3015

Re: 1983 Noval Nacional

Not that unpleasant to drink if you didn't look at it, but the appearance was terrible. 90% of LBVs at this age would show better. Very poor.
by uncle tom
13:19 Thu 25 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 83@40 2023 - May 25th
Replies: 115
Views: 89577

Re: 83@40 2023 - May 25th

Tom - what time are you planning to arrive at the B&F? Would you like some help setting up, decanting, pouring etc?
Aiming for 16.15
by uncle tom
13:04 Wed 24 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 83@40 2023 - May 25th
Replies: 115
Views: 89577

Re: 83@40 2023 - May 25th

I'm in the office on Thursday so can print the placemats then. Let me know if required.
If you could, that would be much appreciated.
by uncle tom
10:51 Mon 22 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 83@40 2023 - May 25th
Replies: 115
Views: 89577

Re: 83@40 2023 - May 25th

Food order forwarded to B&F
by uncle tom
10:11 Mon 22 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 83@40 2023 - May 25th
Replies: 115
Views: 89577

Re: 83@40 2023 - May 25th

I’ve sought permission from SWMBO. If granted, please could I be the 14th? Probably easiest if I pay £, rather than officially adopting a bottle
Of course
Please check your menu choices and make sure I have not messed things up.
Thanks for doing that Alex
by uncle tom
11:30 Fri 19 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 83@40 2023 - May 25th
Replies: 115
Views: 89577

Re: 83@40 2023 - May 25th

So here is the list: JDAW's lineup correct at first draft - impressed! BBR - JMK - to decant and bring Calem - THRA to bring on the day to be adopted by all for £50 Cockburn - THRA to bring on the day to be adopted by AJH Dow - already at B&F - adopted by MPM Feuerheerd - already at B&F - ad...
by uncle tom
18:56 Thu 18 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 83@40 2023 - May 25th
Replies: 115
Views: 89577

Re: 83@40 2023 - May 25th

Tom - are you OK summarising the food orders or would you like some assistance with doing so? If you wouldn't mind, that would be most helpful - the B&F are chasing As the pate has been discontinued, I will go for Mac and cheese, Medium rare steak + chips, beans and peppercorn sauce JDAW - I wi...
by uncle tom
12:35 Wed 17 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 83@40 2023 - May 25th
Replies: 115
Views: 89577

Re: 83@40 2023 - May 25th

B&F tell me that the Duck liver pate starter is now discontinued. As we are down to 12 by the looks it, I'll work towards a 16 bottle event, 17 if Moses makes it over. Matching people's handles to their initials on the attendance list is a little challenging - does anyone have a cross reference ...
by uncle tom
19:12 Mon 15 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 83@40 2023 - May 25th
Replies: 115
Views: 89577

Re: 83@40 2023 - May 25th

The Dow is already at the B&F thanks
by uncle tom
17:33 Mon 15 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 83@40 2023 - May 25th
Replies: 115
Views: 89577

Re: 83@40 2023 - May 25th

OK, so far we have JMK - bringing BBR own CPR - bringing Niepoort AHB - bringing Offley I have already delivered to the B&F: Dow, Feuerheerd, Kopke, Nacional and Smith Woodhouse Could NAC bring Fonseca please Could WHW bring Calem please Could MB bring either Ramos Pinto or Ferreira - you are th...
by uncle tom
14:30 Thu 11 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 83@40 2023 - May 25th
Replies: 115
Views: 89577

Re: 83@40 2023 - May 25th

Davy's have emailed me asking for menu choices.

Looking at the menu it appears to have changed a little - I can't see my usual duck liver pate on the starters list..

Do they oblige our default order from their old menus or do we need to re-visit our choices?
by uncle tom
14:26 Sat 06 May 2023
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
Replies: 95
Views: 377297

Re: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024

Yes please

Have:

1897 (only as magnum)
1920
1927
1935
1942
1945
1948
1955

And from the 60s to Y2K, all vintages and most Malvedos