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medium colour, some dark orange in there, lovely thick, unctuousm full flavour, very slight acid on nose, long taste, absolutely superb. Rating: Excellent++

I've just posted my tasting notes, over a month after the tasting and I'm shocked and disappointed to see that I am the first! Was I the only person there taking notes? Were the rest of you just drinking with no appreciation for the vinous beauty of what you were consuming? Shame on you all! Apolog...

djewesbury wrote:Fatal crash of my hard drive today. Will post full review with links etc when I have access to the repaired machine (too fiddly on the phone).

Is this the hi-tech version of "the dog ate my homework"?

DRT wrote:Is there an asteroid orbiting Uranus?
{Sorry, any solar system discussion needs a Uranus joke.}

Piles of them, surely?
{Sorry, but you started it.}[/quote]

So, Phil, make it over to the Croft Vertical to Germany and we have the 52-63-71 as an aperitif somewhere before or after. I still own one single bottle of 52. That would be most excellent; am certainty hoping/intending to come over for the Croft vertical, if I can make the date once decided. Is it...

Axel P wrote:So, Phil, make it over to the Croft Vertical to Germany and we have the 52-63-71 as an aperitif somewhere before or after. I still own one single bottle of 52.

That would be most excellent; am certainty hoping/intending to come over for the Croft vertical, if I can make the date once decided.

Thanks for posting the Riesling tasting notes; always good to have recommendations (dry Riesling is my favourite wine).

If truth be told, the Port trade is not very good at promoting white ports. At major tasting events (if it features at all) it tends to be the also ran 'curiosity' item on the list, Perhaps it has generally been a supply/demand issue; that there hasn't been much point spending significant money pro...

flash_uk wrote:Would very much like to join this one if possible please.

No problem, you are added. Final line-up and costing just pending response from one contributor, then I will confirm with all with defined date.

Super nova in Messier 82? (except I'm sure you'd already seen this, though perhaps not photographed it)

Congratulations Tom - I'm very pleased for you, I know how much you'd hoped to do this. Hope everything goes smoothly with the transfer and getting everything running, and look forward to visiting you at *your* local

I am less organised than usual and do not have (a) my contributory magnum of Graham 1880 (typing error, the 8 should be a 9) I expect people will be just as distraught by your forgetting to bring the Graham 1890 Magnum. Will be interested in how this evening's tasting goes, I look forward to the re...

AHB wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:And AHB doesn’t own any magnums of Graham 1880.

Damn! Don't I? Must be wishful thinking.

You must be thinking of your Jereboams.

Glenn E. wrote:Luckily the software allows for all combinations. Except for Daniel's desire for each taster at a tasting to have their own custom ordering.

Thank goodness - you can imagine how well that might work out during the pre-pouring.

On a mission to discover Croft 04 LBVs, in a Tesco where they have been known to cluster, Taylor 85 was instead found, at £85. This particular store is a most peculiar location for a bottle at this price point. Are TFP just getting it into every Tesco they can? The Wine Society are featuring it as ...

The big question is, when should the first one be opened to check on the progress of the experiment? I'm not sure what the best date is, but I do know what the control group should look like :D I volunteer to assist with 'emptying' any further Tappit Hens bottles from '77 (especially the Warre!) to...

Perhaps you could rename it the "Topsy-Turvy Tasting at Ten" (preceded by the "Topsy-Turvy Tawny Tasting")?
I had a better suggestion on suitable parameter name for a combined Irish/American layout choice, but it far, far, far too politically incorrect.

In common layouts I would start top left, then either working across the rows (mostly) or down the columns as appropriate. On some non-standard layouts there could be variation, for example an arch of glasses on A3 using placemat as centre, but these would be the special cases.

Any idea when this was bottled? No idea, I'm afraid. The bottle was one of a handful of identical bottles of unknown colheita from auction; the only marking on the bottles was the date of 1940 stamped in the wax seal. The cork was short, and stamped "Porto Cabral" but no further date info...

djewesbury wrote:Oh - my guess now. Errmmm.

No more guessing needed, you already got the answer :doh:
Don't feel obliged to follow up with another question; I think our previous approach of "ask when you have something" works better than "now you have to ask something"

It's a Graham Crusted. Er, 98? Indeed it is/was. I was intending to provide a pic of the cork, but it was "tidied" and I can't find it (probably gone with the rubbish collection). There was no brand on the cork, only "Crusted Port" and "Bottled 1998" (or it may just ha...

Cockburn Special Reserve from 1973? No. I'm thinking a crusted port, from the 70s... Counting that as two questions (since probably helpful to do so, rather than just saying no): (i) Yes it is crusted, (ii) No, not from the 70s Interestingly, I have two different 1973 crusted ports, and was intendi...

djewesbury wrote:Is it an LBV?

No.
7/20 remaining.

And I think you said it was younger than you, should that be included as a fact? I repeated the question in which that information appeared. It must be a white port then - is it Dalva 71? Nope, and not a white port. Niepoort Garrafeira 1977? (Is that younger than PhilW?) Nope, and not a Garrafeira ...

DRT wrote:Please give my place to someone else. I have committed to the other event in the belief that this one wasn't happening

Tom, my apologies, I am in the same position as DRT and committed elsewhere for the same reason, so please release my spot; thanks.