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jdaw1 wrote:El Vino might be closed as part of being taken over by Davy’s. Not sure.

Fleet Street was open last week when I happened to be passing.

I see we are now 600 members (assuming some recent additions are not spammers).

After 48 hours this was not so special, but still pleasant. Now more full, but a bit less velvety.

jdaw1 wrote:Has the organiser booked a room somewhere?

CPR 1 wrote:All are very welcome, it will be good to meet you Simon.

First post now updated and the Green room at the B&F booked

Picked this up in a bundle of oddities at auction recently. Decanted 1 hour, 30% opacity, brown-red. Nose of mature port - strawberry, prunes, violets, really quite candied and floral at the same time. In the mouth, very smooth, just a very little bit of heat mid palate, with strawberry again, and a...

jdaw1 wrote:

Cedars28 wrote:I'd love to join you on 25th Nov if there is space! I have almost recovered from my last foray

Please list the 1985s that you have.

Rupert can adopt something from me.

jdaw1 wrote:...And any plan featuring any chance that Mike would have to take anything home is a bad idea. Very bad.

Very true

DRT wrote:

flash_uk wrote:This is not a vintage that the collective do not know reasonably well.

Why are we doing a horizontal then?

Ahem. [raises hand]. Ahem. Might we be slightly over analysing this? I don't think there is any drive or intent to set a precedent here. If Wolfgang were to suggest backup bottles for a 94 horizontal, I suspect there would be universal rejection of the idea! Who cares if a few bottles are flawed. Ba...

I can supply a Dow '75.

AHB wrote:I'm happy to volunteer to be the TCA detector. I'm also happy to double up on the bottles I'm bringing if I can (I need to check what bottles I have where first).

I can turn up around 4 and give a hand with set-up.

I can double up on the Gould Campbell and Offley.

I'll be away on that Tuesday

F70 - Shine on you crazy diamond
GM86 - Sympathy for the devil

PhilW wrote:Wasn't sure why, but that bottle didn't seem right to me either - possibly the label too white, not sure but didn't feel right.

There's a very similar one here on your VPID.

ProfS wrote:I could open both and test this

A fine experiment - good luck!

A very fine first TN post!

Welcome to TPF Simon

Like Daniel, I also just keep my notes here on TPF. I use an iOS app called VinoCell to keep track of what bottles I have.

Look forward to meeting you at a tasting.

Fonseca '85 magnum it is then!

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:Ramos Pinto perhaps?

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=95013#p95013]Here[/url] idj123 wrote:I have checked and unfortunately do not hold any RP 85

Ah. Ferreira?

jdaw1 wrote:CPR has joined us. Which one or two shippers should be added? Or a Fonseca 1985 magnum?

Ramos Pinto perhaps?

Glenn E. wrote:

AHB wrote: and instead chose to spend a couple of hours at the Boot & Flogger with a bottle of Dow 1970.

Precedent has been set. A quorum is now 1 member and 1 bottle.

I thought that always was the quorum!

jdaw1 wrote:Entail?
• <This> might need to happen, perhaps entailing <changes> in <another thing>.
Entail? Pretentious? (Qui, moi?) What word should be substituted for “entailing”?

Requiring

Two shapes have been proposed: few shippers but twice each; or many shippers. Reasoning and preference, please. And should either shape include the magnums? Edit: there are 1985s we have quite often, chiefly Fonseca, but other big shippers as well. Should these be excluded? I would just go for sing...

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:Two sittings still preferred.

The audience has not been enthusiastic about two sittings, and seems to much prefer not using a day of leave.

Actually now that I think about it, one is better!