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Oh dear. Saddest Port of the night goes to the Nacional. First problem was that it was hazy, second was the overpowering brandy on the nose and in the back of the mouth. Tracie said "Prunes" and she was right. It never really recovered and I suspected a fault but couldn't pinpoint it - it ...

1985 Harvey (Martinez) Fabulous. We were expecting a brown cooking/cooked Port of no specific merit. Couldn't have been more wrong. Colour was as expected for a lighter 1985. Nose was fresh with raspberry notes! Fruity and light but massively enjoyable this was perfect on the night and probably the...

Oh 'eck. Another half that I dragged out of its slumber but note the same success. I've had plenty of Dow before, including a twin for this one. That time it was better but it didn't have such company. This time it seemed overly dry with the raisin flavours appearing to be a saving grace... except t...

Absolute bargain. Buy it by the bucket-load. I opened this at 9:30 in the morning, double-decanting it back into its own half-bottle. Cork was thin and hard but came out cleanly. Masses of dark fruits early on and no massive alcohol kick made this very easy to drink. Chocolate notes later meant that...

This was terrifyingly alcoholic when we first had a go at it. Colour was a dark amber with a pink tinge and was beautifully clear. Nose was almost pure brandy but the plums came good in the end, even if that was a few hours later. In the mouth the brandy was still around but later it was all plums a...

Chris G bought this from the Crusting Pipe's cellars as his contribution. Al-B knew what it was so Stevie and I went out to guess it. Quickly came to the conclusion that it was either Taylor's or Dow's due to the dryness at the back of the palate. I put a guess on 1985 Quinta da Vargellas as I knew ...

Bought from the cellars at the Crusting Pipe, I have a bottle at home. Basically this isn't like Fonseca. It's far too light for such a young one and I could get no flowers, but could get the coffee at the back. It's not that this is bad Port, it's just not Fonseca-ish. Drinking very well now, proba...

My winnings from Aussie for the Ashes of 2005. This was not tasted blind as I'd already revealed it. Well, I didn't expect that! A fairly severe-looking Victorian woman on the front and a half bottle, I presumed that I was getting something similar to a Tokaji Aszu or even Essencia - nope. This is m...

This was me starting things off in style with a Montalcino-based sangiovese wine from Podere, a Brunello producer. I think that it is a 2005 but that was due to a clue on the label. What it definitely is, is over-production wines bottled up and flogged cheap. It was medium dark-cherry red, consisten...

Linked to Ronnie's website and could read a bit of WS stuff but the rest was double Dutch to me. Have you thought about translating so that we can see what's going on?

Like the site, very neat.

I recognise that cat.

Ronnie - obviously you didn't like that category. I suspect a record for getting to Cockburn's Ruby the fastest is about to be set.

Voted CAMRA beer of the year so many times that it's now an embarrassment. When I first had it, I thought "Why? It's nice but nothing special." Well, that's what so special. If you think of what a good pint should be, it should make you feel all nice and cosy, cheer you up and make you buy...

Oh yes - avatars. I've increased the size to be reasonable but not excessive, I'll look into getting some standard ones to play with.

RonnieRoots wrote:

KillerB wrote:Stop sticking your introductions on my thread, there's a whole section out there called... "Introductions".

Hi, I'm Ronald... or wasn't I supposed to say that...?

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RonnieRoots wrote:By the way, how many posts do I have to make before I move on from Cheap Ruby to Cruz Reserve?

It's now Cruz Ruby at the beginning, then Cheap Ruby at 10, Reserve at 25, I'll be adding as we get there.

I'm not Treacle, I'm Admin.

This could be any number of people but Treacle may fiddle with stuff from time to time just to make the place look nice.

I've set the site up to be fairly open first of all. Private messaging is available, polls are on, searches - what more could you want?

How did I guess that Conky's jokes would end up in this section?

Stop sticking your introductions on my thread, there's a whole section out there called... "Introductions".

People can reply and say hello to you specifically and can check who you are when you're rude to them in a post.

Don't want to have too many sections as it looks naff. I think in the conversations for now, see how it goes.

It was the Graham's Malvedos 1987 and it was really nice.

Other terms:

The Other Side
The Dark Side
The Alternate Universe
Another Planet

etc.

Hang on, I've seen you drink a 1963 as well as a superb 1970 Fonseca.

Are you trying to start a flame war already?

I agree BTW.

Nice to have you here. I hope you enjoy the debates that will be going on here and will eventually feel happy enough to join. There will be more interesting stuff going on soon but join now to get a single digit member number!

Consider it done