TPF 2012 Offline Summary

[Alex Bridgeman]

I thought that it might be of use to have a summary or index to past offlines and possible future offlines being organised through or attended by posters on TPF. With a single summary list it should be easier for people to see quickly whether there is an offline coming up that they would like to attend.

All offlines on the list are set out with the following information:
Date (Location) Theme (Comment)
Wed 3rd Jan (London) A Small Horizontal of 1977
Tue 10th Jan (London) The Bunghole - A Splendid Trial
Mon 16th Jan (London) Croft in the Bunghole - 1963 to 2000
Thu 19th Jan (Wokingham) An Emergency Offline
Fri 27th Jan (Virtual) International Port Day and picture
Tue 31st Jan (London) Ko-ichi's Retirement
Mon 6th Feb (London) A BB&R Fine Wine Tutored Tasting
Wed 8th Feb (London) A Blind Bottle Offline
Tue 14th Feb (London) Valentine's Day
Wed 15th Feb (London) The Day After Valentine's
Wed 22nd Feb (London) A Jubilee Celebration
Wed 29th Feb (London) The Annual 29th Feb Leaping
Fri 2nd Mar (Leverkusen) A 1980 Horizontal
Mon 12th Mar (London) Cynthia visits London
Fri 16th Mar (New York) The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament Offline
Fri 16th Mar (Frankfurt) Grand Kopke Colheita Vertical 1935-1995
Thu 22nd Mar (London) JDAW's Parisian Oddities
Thu 29th Mar (London) The Birthday Boys' Tasting
Wed 4th Apr (London) An Emergency Offline
Wed 11th Apr (London) A Small Emergency at the Bunghole
Tue 17th Apr (London) A Small 1966 Horizontal
Thu 19th Apr (London) Davy's Port Masterclass
Mon 23rd Apr (London) Life on the Douro, London Screening
Tue 24th Apr (London) Delaforce Vertical
Wed 2nd May (London) The Big Fortified Tasting #3
Wed 2nd May (London) An Invitation from Johnny Symington
Tue 15th May (London) A Small 1970 Horizontal in Honour of Ronnie Roots
Thu 17th May (New York) Life on the Douro Screening, New York
Sun 20th May (Portugal) Some Fine Ports Drunk at Crasto
Tue 29th May (Germany) A Collection of 2009 Tasting Notes
Sat 2nd Jun (New York) G-Man's Belated Birthday - A Mini Fonseca Vertical
Wed 6th Jun (London) Farewell to Anait
Fri 8th Jun (Portugal) JDAW Visits Portugal
Mon 25th Jun (London) Some Noval: 1950-1985
Tue 10th Jul (London) A Blind Emergency Tasting
Wed 25th Jul (London) The TPF Olympiad Tasting
Wed 15th Aug (New York) Oscar Quevedo visits New York
Thu 30th Aug (London) At the Bunghole
Tue 4th Sep (London) A Blind Tasting at the Bunghole
Wed 5th Sep (Copenhagen) Gustavo Devesas Presents some Graham Tawny
Tue 11th Sep (London) Two '77s and an '85
Tue 18th Sep (London) Sandeman Vau and Other Potential Daily Drinkers
Mon 24th Sep (London) A Modest Warre / Fonseca Parallel Vertical 1955-1985
Wed 3rd Oct (New York) An Early Work Getaway
Tue 9th Oct (London) A Blind Tasting at Portal
Sat 13th Oct (Germany) A Ramos Pinto Vertical: 1880-2011 with more complete notes here
Mon 15th Oct (London) Delaforce '58 and Friends
Tue 23rd Oct (London) A Small 1963 Horizontal
Late Oct (London) Anything But Vintage, Including 20 Year Old Tawnies
Wed 7th Nov (London) East India Club Port tasting
Fri 9th Nov (Leverkusen) 20 Years of Port
Tue 13th Nov (London) A Smattering of Graham and Malvedos
Mon 19th Nov (London) Port at the Hix Chophouse
Thu 29th Nov (London) The Berry Brothers Port Walk
Wed 5th Dec (London) Borges Muito Velho and friends
Thu 13th Dec (Wenden's Ambo) The Port Forum Christmas Offline - The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends

And useful links to offline summaries for 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008 and by shipper.

And some ideas that have not yet had dates set:
December (New York) A Fonseca Vertical
February 2013 (London) Six Dow Magnums
±7 days of 28 March 2013 (London) A Taylor Vertical
TBA (Leverkusen) Messias Ports - colheita vs vintage
TBA (London) An Intersection Offline
TBA (London) So Who's The Best Single Quinta Then?
TBA (London) A Pint of Port

[Alex Bridgeman]

The summary has been updated. If anyone spots any broken links then please let me know.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Updated again. Please let me know if there's anything missing, broken or grammatically incorrect.

[DRT]

In the first 17 weeks of 2012 we have had 24 TPF tasting events.

Not too shabby

[jdaw1]

Sixteen proper TPF events (not commercial tastings) in London. And I went to almost all of them.

[RAYC]

Mon 6th Feb (London) A BB&R Fine Wine Tutored Tasting

The inclusion of this one is a bit of a stretch - as far as i am aware, no one from TPF went....!

[Alex Bridgeman]

Mon 6th Feb (London) A BB&R Fine Wine Tutored Tasting

The inclusion of this one is a bit of a stretch - as far as i am aware, no one from TPF went....!

True, but we had it as a thread and I don't want the thread to disappear without a relatively easy way to trace it.

[Alex Bridgeman]

I've just noticed how out-of-date this now is. I will attempt to update it in the next week or so.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Offline summary has been updated

[Alex Bridgeman]

2012's offline summary has now been finalised, but if you spot any errors or broken links then please let me know.

ADMIN - please unfreeze this post and freeze the 2013 offline summary that has just been started.

[DRT]

ADMIN - please unfreeze this post and freeze the 2013 offline summary that has just been started.

Will do. Thanks for doing this, Alex, it is very helpful.