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My W.O.T.N. Nice deep red colour, a little spicy on the palate. Still not a keeper so will drink up my few.

Dirty brown cloudy, nose sweet toffee, no length.

Thanks Tom and Alex. On looking back at the 30 year tasting back in December 2013 it’s like déja vu! No outstanding Ports so maybe we just have to write off that year. One or two might be going through a dumb phase but on balance I think many are past it. A few ranked as good but no very good rankin...

Terrine
Ribeye M with carrots & chunky chips
Cheese

Waiting list please.

I got mine 5 weeks ago directly from Portugal so no customs issues.

Yes please, I have Dows, Grahams, Noval, Sandemans, Taylors and Tesco!

No.3 as have done 1 and 2. Maybe I'm cynical but when left to restaurants there always to be quite a lot of sediment to be taken out (at least that's what one sommelier told me!). The waiter's friend(s) takes on a new meaning

I can send over the QH or the Berry Bros.(Warres).

We visited and stayed at Quinta de Vent0zelo last March and irc they have circa 400 hectares but not sure how much of this is under vine.

4 x Taylor’s 1983

Sure you’d have to

YouTube and Zoom; looking forward to it but I have a zoom meeting at 6.00 so will arrive late!

Well I got diddly squat, I knew they wouldn't send wine to the Republic (they closed their foodhall in Dublin because of Brexit) so I was diverting it to Northern Ireland (message said they couldn't send wine there either). I'd say the Unionist community is furious!

I would also like to attend virtually and I'll be bringing, virtually, the best bottle of Port I can find

an Aldi Bekka Valley wine from Lebanon, I didn’t realise this existed. Does the bottle say who made it? They Aldi website is unhelpful... I don’t think I can compete with many of the selections here. Sparkling wines included a Sussex champagne-blend by Albury which was new to me. Attractive but tas...

Light Christmas Day lunch with a bottle of Rathfinny ‘17 Classic Cuvée which, despite its Irish sounding name, is actually from Sussex. Our first time departing from traditional Champagne; it won’t be our last, light and refreshing. Not mad about turkey so cooked a côte de boeuf and opened an Aldi B...

uncle tom wrote: ↑16:48 Sun 11 Dec 2022 The centenarian bottle I am pulling for the Xmas bash next week will reduce the average of the VP in my cellar by 3 days, 20hrs and 20 minutes..

Julian is that enough information for you to calculate how many bottles in Tom's cellar?

Maybe we need a section dedicated to Auction houses and problems and praises connected to them. When I started buying Port at auction, in the late 1980's, buyers commission was typically 8% in Ireland and vendors paid 10%. Nowadays it's common to pay up to 29% as a buyer and vendors up to 25%. Aucti...

Aldi is launching their Christmas range here in Ireland from tomorrow. Fletcher’s 40 year old tawny is back. Slow seller here but I know it disappeared quickly on mainland UK last year so this is a heads up to all you tawny nuts (Glenn if you want a bottle I’ll pick one up for you but I don’t know w...

I'll have to give this a miss as can't be away from home on December 1st. and I'm too old to be poured on to a plane late at night!

Sounds good count me in.

Date depending would be interested

Berry Bros. (Warres)
Graham
Quarles Harris

Virtually willing