Cockburn Vertical, Tue 2nd Oct 2018

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jdaw1 wrote: 00:39 Sun 15 Jul 2018
DRT wrote: 02:20 Thu 12 Jul 2018I now have enough data to suggest that the cost will be in the region of £240 per person, excluding food.
When do you want to be paid? Soon has the advantage of compelling decision by the indecisive.
Soon, but I have one more (WS1) to re-confirm and give me prices. I have PM'd and emailed with no reply. If someone has another form of contact please use it to point out latest British citizen in this direction.
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Gents,

I have an option on two very old bottles that would take the cost per person from £240 to £300 including Port and tip for our friends at B&F. Food would be on top at cost.

I await condition reports on the bottles in question but if they look good my intention it to include both. Neither of these vintages have tasting notes on TPF.

If there is any serious objection to this please PM or email me or post in this thread. I am not trying to drive the cost up here, just trying to put a fabulous line-up on the table at reasonable cost. If there is a Brexit-style revolt I will happily "do a May" and change my mind ;-)
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DRT wrote:If there is a Brexit-style revolt I will happily "do a May" and change my mind ;-)
Jeremy was a serial rebeller, and May causes same. Instead my behaviour will be obedient in the style of the SNP. Is that what you want?
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No objection here-if it's worth doing then it's worth doing well!
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DRT wrote: 01:02 Tue 17 Jul 2018 I have an option on two very old bottles that would take the cost per person from £240 to £300 including Port and tip for our friends at B&F. Food would be on top at cost.
Yes, please...
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obedient in the style of the SNP
I sense an oxymoron coming on..
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DRT wrote: 01:02 Tue 17 Jul 2018 Gents,

I have an option on two very old bottles that would take the cost per person from £240 to £300 including Port and tip for our friends at B&F. Food would be on top at cost.

I await condition reports on the bottles in question but if they look good my intention it to include both. Neither of these vintages have tasting notes on TPF.

If there is any serious objection to this please PM or email me or post in this thread. I am not trying to drive the cost up here, just trying to put a fabulous line-up on the table at reasonable cost. If there is a Brexit-style revolt I will happily "do a May" and change my mind ;-)
Oh no! Who put the completist in charge...

If there's no tasting note on TPF then I haven't tasted it before. Which means I'm up for the extra bottle(s).
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Hi,

I am happy the completist is in charge! Following the "stay on winner strategy" we can look FWD to a great tasting similar to the Malvedos tasting that some mistakenly thought it was Graham's tasting😀😀😀

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AHB wrote: 13:29 Wed 18 Jul 2018Oh no! Who put the completist in charge...
Is that a challenge? :twisted:

Assuming by "complete" you simply mean filling the gaps between 1896 and 1977, we only have a few more to find: 1897, 1900, 1904, 1912, 1917, 1924, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1945, 1958 & 1966.

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Wait, did Cockburn declare a 1966?

I thought they skipped and went for the 67' instead.
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g-man wrote:Wait, did Cockburn declare a 1966?

I thought they skipped and went for the 67' instead.
Declare, or make?
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jdaw1 wrote: 08:03 Thu 19 Jul 2018
g-man wrote:Wait, did Cockburn declare a 1966?

I thought they skipped and went for the 67' instead.
Declare, or make?
They most certainly made Ck66.
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DRT wrote:Assuming by "complete" you simply mean filling the gaps between 1896 and 1977, we only have a few more to find: 1897, 1900, 1904, 1912, 1917, 1924, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1945, 1958 & 1966.
Please donʼt omit ʼ34, ʼ47, ʼ51, and ʼ78.
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jdaw1 wrote: 08:43 Thu 19 Jul 2018
DRT wrote:Assuming by "complete" you simply mean filling the gaps between 1896 and 1977, we only have a few more to find: 1897, 1900, 1904, 1912, 1917, 1924, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1945, 1958 & 1966.
Please donʼt omit ʼ34, ʼ47, ʼ51, and ʼ78.
or '69...
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Regret Co '66 is just too scarce to liberate another one at this time.

Of the seven bottles I secured in 2011, four now remain.

Unless the Symingtons uncover a stash (at the last count, they were not aware of any) it's one per decade now, I think..
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jdaw1 wrote: 08:43 Thu 19 Jul 2018
DRT wrote:filling the gaps between 1896 and 1977
Please donʼt omit ... ʼ78.
:?
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Despite the temptation to go for a complete line-up I think we have about as many as we will find. Of those missing I think 1912 and 1945 would be top of the list to consider if we found them but the others are likely to be of academic interest only, and probably prohibitively expensive.
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DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote: 08:43 Thu 19 Jul 2018
DRT wrote:filling the gaps between 1896 and 1977
Please donʼt omit ... ʼ78.
:?
Not that ʼ78.
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jdaw1 wrote: 08:03 Thu 19 Jul 2018
g-man wrote:Wait, did Cockburn declare a 1966?

I thought they skipped and went for the 67' instead.
Declare, or make?
I see! 66' would be similar story to the 77' then?
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I am delighted to inform you that we have two new additions to the line-up, which now looks like this:

1908 (Mag), 1912, 1920, 1924, 1927, 1935, 1947, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1970 & 2 x 1977

I remain hopeful that the 1896 will be on the table but await confirmation.

Not too shabby.
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jdaw1 wrote: 17:44 Thu 19 Jul 2018
DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote: 08:43 Thu 19 Jul 2018
DRT wrote:filling the gaps between 1896 and 1977
Please donʼt omit ... ʼ78.
:?
Not that ʼ78.
Exactly which 78 falls between 96 and 77?
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DRT wrote: 19:46 Fri 20 Jul 2018Exactly which 78 falls between 96 and 77?
I think that’s a misunderstanding of the misunderstanding.
jdaw1 wrote: 08:43 Thu 19 Jul 2018Please donʼt omit ʼ34, ʼ47, ʼ51, and ʼ78.
If these were all nineteens, only the ’78 would have been out-of-range. If they were eighteens, all would have been out-of-range. So let’s inspect your post.
DRT wrote: 16:07 Thu 19 Jul 2018
jdaw1 wrote: 08:43 Thu 19 Jul 2018
DRT wrote:filling the gaps between 1896 and 1977
Please donʼt omit ... ʼ78.
:?
You even edited the post of mine that you quoted, to leave only the ’78. Which suggested a choice of century. Which is why my post hinted at requesting a reconsideration of that choice.
jdaw1 wrote: 17:44 Thu 19 Jul 2018Not that ʼ78.
Fair?
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DRT wrote: 19:38 Fri 20 Jul 20181908 (Mag), 1912, 1920, 1924, 1927, 1935, 1947, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1970 & 2 x 1977
DRT wrote: 19:38 Fri 20 Jul 2018Not too shabby.
Not shabby, but a little light, so I have taken the liberty of not removing from the latest incarnation of the placemats the 2×1975s. Obviously this is subject to the approval of the Master.

With one more bottle we could still be at a width of 2½×A4. But eighteen or more would require a width of 3×A4.
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I am beginning to question my belief system.

Not more than a month ago CMAG asked for advice on buying LBV. Now JDAW is campaigning for the inclusion of not one, but two 1975s in a line-up of fabulous port.

I need to go and lie down. This is too much.
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1975: why two?
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