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Just getting my act together with regards to posting notes. Thank you to everyone who attended. For me, the 2017 vintage is a notch up from the rather floral 2016 vintage. The 2017 vintage seems to have more presence than the 2016 and I enjoyed them more for that. What really impresses is how approa...

Thank you to everyone who attended and to all of the producers who contributed to this event.
I guess I better get posting my notes!

DaveRL wrote: ↑19:28 Sun 23 Jun 2019 I think I can get there for 12 or so.

Hi Dave

You are welcome any time but It looks like the Journalists will not be tasting blind so there is less work to do.
We will need start to cover the bottles from around 4pm. Slight-of-hand may be required for the more obvious bottles !!

Hi I am helping Alex put this together - If anyone wants anything different from their standard food order speak now as we will put the order in tomorrow morning. Hopefully the parcels arrived at the B&F Friday. Capela and Vesuvio are in. Kopke and Burmester should be with me in the afternoon Di...

Well done Simon
Looking forward to a few Port evenings...

I am going to have to withdraw from this due to a family bereavement. I’ll catch up at the 2017 tasting later in the month.

Yes Please.

Did we say that we would invite Sophia to this one ?

Would a barros 1994 vintage work?
I also have the usual suspects....


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Yes please date permitting


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Sorry guys - I am going to have to back out of this one as I'm now away for that week.

Samples should be with me around first week of June. We have the 1994 mini on 11 June - can I suggest Tuesday 25th June?

I am away for most of May so cannot 'support' a May date - probably too early in the cycle to accumulate samples. June could work quite well... it would inform buying decisions / press etc. so the shippers will be more inclined to support.

No this will not be on that. I need to arrange a date with Miguel - he has just become a father so is a little distracted.

I was thinking about this very topic over the weekend.

We should do this! I am happy to organise (with help).

Last year was a little last minute / ad-hoc. With a little more foresight we can have a greater range of shippers.

w/c 9 September works best on lots of levels.

Great idea - count me in


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Yippee - I'm in!
All the easier ones have gone.... I'll see if I can find something.

Yes please. Great idea

Christopher has an 8 bottle case of Vesuvio (vintages 89 onwards) he would very generously like to share with us.
The proposal is to set the bar at 8 attendees (by coincidence we have 8 confirmed) and hand over to Christopher

Yes it would work for me.

70's tasting would be nice and easy. Definitely up for this as Room is booked for 13th - I may have a problem with moving to Valentines day

I'll work out an alternative date with Miguel from Messias. We are both keen to organise this but it will have to be later.

I'll amend the post header.

I will have to postpone this to a later date as we will not have the wines in time - the suggestion is near the BFT.

I still have the room booked if we want to do something else (and a little less logistically challenging).

YEs please

Sorry - feeling under the weather so will have to back out.

Possibly..... was thinking of a dry Jan but 3 days might be more than enough!

A really interesting summary - I like the logic you have applied and the forced constraint of a limited number in the top category.