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jdaw1 wrote:My local Co-op has no port at all.

A mission, then. I shall find Co-op central when I am in London.

This is 2005, rather than 2007, unfortunately.

Actually I will bring some of this (a bottle, maybe two, but not, as implied in the link, a case: sorry, jdaw). Damn I bought one of those today, for £13.84: ‟Bottled by Quinta & Vineyard Bottlers”. Are M&S the only chain grocers supplied by Taylor Fladgate? Or are other BOBs Taylor? Most ...

djewesbury wrote:Maybe I'll bring a bottle of Co-op 2007... I hear it's a top-flight wine.

Actually I will bring some of this (a bottle, maybe two, but not, as implied in the link, a case: sorry, jdaw).

Hello to the wife-selling correspondents, An interesting suggestion - particularly as we celebrated our RUBY wedding last sunday. Does anyone know of a suitable forum for such transactions? Are there accepted terms for describing condition? Yes, have you visited TheWifeForum.com? Some of the same h...

Axel cannot make that date.. The Warre LBV issue seems to be far too political and above my pay grade, I couldn't possibly decide to do something of this magnitude when the NATO tasting in September is still on the cards (is it still on the cards?). DHT's wonderful suggestion of 'bring a bottle wrap...

NB: joke

AHB wrote:Sadly I can't make 28th May - I'll be on holiday in Derbyshire!

Offline in Derbs, anyone..?

Do you have one of these, or just a very steady hand?! http://www.winecare.co.uk/acatalog/gd2131.jpg Tonight, I watched The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, one of Billy Wilder's strangest films.. Christopher Lee, playing Holmes's brother Mycroft, pours 3 glasses of 1814 Madeira using a screw-tilt ...

There are indeed many possibilities. An SQVP theme? Bomfim vertical? But then you've just had a Dowathon. 1980 horizontal? I admit I'm intrigued by the Cálem. But then I'll do anything really. I have PMed Axel so we shall see what he says.

Patience, mes amis...

Themes proposed but not yet done, so needing a date, include Warre LBVs and Axel’s Cálem Vertical . Please do take charge. These both seem excellent ideas which are already fairly well-advanced in terms of sourcing the requisite materials. My first instinct is to say 'Cálem', just because they're V...

Tues 28th May A friendly get-together; bring a bottle wrapped in foil. The Bung Hole , aka Davy's Holborn Bar and Grill, 57 High Holborn, WC1V 6DT, tel 020 7831 8365, streetmap.co.uk , maps.google.co.uk Confirmed: DJ DRT JDAW THRA RW (DJ's guest Mr Richard West) original post: Does anyone have an ob...

DJH, have sent you a PM, let me know what you think!

Please send a PM when you've a moment, if you have a price in mind perhaps I can find a good home for some of this in Belfast..

Maybe I'll bring a bottle of Co-op 2007... I hear it's a top-flight wine.

Yes I imagine that come the evening of the 24th we'll all be suffering hideous port withdrawal... Go on then, DJ + 1 please (RB, dexter).

Bought two bottles of this at Weingalerie, Berlin.. I'd heard from a few places that this was a very good drinking port now, so decided to pop one last night to accompany a steak.. I wasn't sure about the best way to let this wine present itself so young, but followed the recommendations of Paul Sym...

Both 2010 and 2011 we have stayed at Quinta de la Rosa and waking up in the morning smelling the grape must fermenting in the Lagares is in it self sufficent reason to visit the valley during the harvest. Booked. We're travelling about a little but if you're at QdlR between the 12th and the 18th of...

May I just point out that I am replying to your posts while DJing a night of music from all over Africa? I'm sort of inordinately proud of this effort of amazing multitasking, even whilst I recognise the futility of that feeling. But somehow the biblical exegesis is fitting well with the music.... T...

I like the idea of the proposed names for the first 12 ports, but find the last two less evocative. Instead of "mature port" and "immature port", how about "Saint Peter" and "Saint Paul", being the two patron saints of Rome and therefore linking your themes f...

Decanted 2 hours before drinking. Very dark, 70-80%, pink at the rim. On the first night this showed very little. Nose was tight and closed, a little harshness (is this VA? I don't know). On the palate it was immediately soft, very velvety in fact, but not particularly rich. I thought I noticed almo...

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g-man wrote:What would be the fee for the ferryman to carry us across teh great sea of tca?

Polyethylene foil! It absorbs the TCA

Arrgghhh... With your polyethylene cloak my defences are nearly useless...
We'd better just drink them all then. It's a fair cop..

surely no match for my magical port tongs! oh, you think you can cross the Sea of TCA? Beware traveller, many have tried and their bones litter the cellar... Presumably you pass one bottle of 1975 Port through the force-field, and a dozen 1970s land in your storage. Hurray! IMPORTANT : don’t forget...

Oh, I forgot to mention the magic force-field...

Was ist Portwein? http://www.danieljewesbury.org/portwein.jpg An entertaining booklet published for the German market in 1938 (conveniently, this had recently been unified into a single trading area..) Unsurprisingly, given the political climate, it says rather little about the importance of Englis...