Friday October 28th - NY: Zelandakh visits

[Chris Doty]

What happened to Warre?

Seems like we can do at least W58, W60, W66, W70, W77. Anyone have the 63?

That'd be my vote.

Or maybe a 1980 VP tasting.

Thoughts?

[SushiNorth]

What happened to Warre?
Seems like we can do at least W58, W60, W66, W70, W77. Anyone have the 63?
That'd be my vote.
Or maybe a 1980 VP tasting.
Thoughts?

Doing a Taylor smattering, or a Taylor LBV 1-per-decade is interesting, but I agree that we may want to try something more defined. I have a lot of Warre, less of 80:

W: 63*, 70, 77, 83, 85, 94, 97 etc. Missing: 60, 66, 75, 80, 91.
* Some of these W63s are in dismal condition, but i think i've one that's still red.

80: T***, F***, D**, G, Burmester, Gould Campbell (good stuff, btw)
** We just had this at the Dow tasting, deemed it too young
*** Only 1 ea, acquired to support an F or T vertical in the future.

[Chris Doty]

Yeah -- Warre seems to be the no brainer to me. I have a '66, and I'm sure we could find any of the others that we really would feel we're missing.

[Zelandakh]

OK, so shall we settle on Warre's as a theme then?

I'd like to adopt a bottle please and for simplicity would also like to ask for a second bottle for adoption by my brother. I will ask the ladies whether they are planning on attending with red wine or partaking - how many bottles are you planning on bringing for execution?

Also, are we up to an 8 ball?

[Zelandakh]

Looks like we're a maximum of 7 and yet the table is booked for 8. Do we have a mystery attendee?

[SushiNorth]

OK, so shall we settle on Warre's as a theme then?

I'd like to adopt a bottle please and for simplicity would also like to ask for a second bottle for adoption by my brother. I will ask the ladies whether they are planning on attending with red wine or partaking - how many bottles are you planning on bringing for execution?

Not sure what the total # was, g-man or Chris may have known of someone else joining.
I was chatting with g-man and it sounds like we were leaning more toward the LBV+70's approach, rather than the warre's vertical. We'll settle on a theme soon I'm sure. Once we get there, we can arrange any necessary adoptions.

[g-man]

differetndave did say yes in the beginning so i gave 8 when i put deposit down for reservations.

[g-man]

Need you guys to vote on menu.
can everyone pm me their personal emails?

[differentdave]

Good looking out on the reservation for 8< just logged in and thought I missed the deadline, please count me in and I can bring something from 60's or 70'sor source a bottle...whatever works best for the group.

[Zelandakh]

OK, so next steps are the theme - will be decided by the local members and what is in their cellar.

I would like to adopt as would my brother and would my GF.
Babysitter has now fallen through so my sis in law isn't now coming - sorry about that.

Q:
What about glasses - are they provided by the venue or "us"?
Is a taxi at 22.30 a good plan? Need to get it booked you see.

Many thanks,
Nick

[g-man]

OK, so next steps are the theme - will be decided by the local members and what is in their cellar.

I would like to adopt as would my brother and would my GF.
Babysitter has now fallen through so my sis in law isn't now coming - sorry about that.

Q:
What about glasses - are they provided by the venue or "us"?
Is a taxi at 22.30 a good plan? Need to get it booked you see.

Many thanks,
Nick

where are you staying?

it's like 14$ to go from the village to midtown (50s)

22.30 is just convinent i guess.

sushi and i have glasses.

Nick PM me your email

I need you to review the menu

[Chris Doty]

My GF (terry) is free to attend (which I think means we're back to 8).

Happy to support the LBV + 70s theme.

[Zelandakh]

Perfect - 2 ladies in the group sounds good.

Sounds like we are nearly there, need to confirm a theme then look at adopting options.

[g-man]

theme

bring 1 bottle of lbv

1 bottle from the 70s.

take a pick which one you want to adopt since i'm flying solo.

[Chris Doty]

Ok

To show some leadership, I'm going to plan on bringing:

1986 Warre Late Bottled Vintage (terry)
1977 Sandeman Vintage Port (chris)

[differentdave]

I will stick with the 77's and toss a dow 77 into the ring.

[jdaw1]

Who is to make placemats?

[g-man]

okay I'll find a 77 to throw in also

bringing the 84' taylor lbv.

[Zelandakh]

Can I get some adoption options PM'd please? I'll need 3 please

Placemats is a good point - any volunteers?

[differentdave]

gman thread on ws has date as october 29th, I am able to attend on Friday the 28th but not Saturday the 29th. I am assumng the info on tpf is accurate. I can get to restaurant early (I can bring my glasses or I can go to your house prior to pick up your glasses).
I can give the placemats/tasting sheets a try if pointed in the right direction...

[g-man]

yes tpf has the correct info.

I'll have to work out the logistic on the day for myself as I ahve to work that day so I have to see how i'm going to decant/lug bottles and glasses.

Sushi, are you able to bring glasses?

[SushiNorth]

The thread ran off without me knowing... guess i must have missed a notification email.

1) Yes, I can bring glasses.
2) Yes, I will make placemats
3) I am bringing SWC77 + SWC 84 LBV. If someone would like to adopt half of each, that would work out nicely.

[Zelandakh]

Zelandakh - W77
Lorna - (Mrs Zelandakh) - TBC
My brother - TBC
Sushi - SWC77 and SWC84LBV to split
gman - T84LBV
differentdave - D77
ChrisDoty - Sa77
Terry (Mrs Chris) - W86LBV

So we only need one more bottle and we're sorted.

Current 4 77s and 3 LBV...getting thirsty just thinking about it.

[g-man]

i believe i have a bottle of 77 quinta da cachao that i've been really interested in trying.

[Zelandakh]

cacao is chocolate It will probably be me needing a hot chocolate and yawning all evening...