Warre LBVs, Re-scheduled

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With the Calem tasting postponed, I could attend the Warre LBV offline.
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jdaw1 wrote:Location: not yet discussed; probably The Bung Hole.
A tentative booking has been made for the Function Room in the obvious location. However, there is, that evening, ‟a 70-person quiz night”, so, as well as some noise and obstacles between us and the facilities, we would have to eat in the Function Room.

My vote is for TBH anyway. Objections?
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VP: a decision has been made. As a control, we’ll include Warre 1985 VP, which is middle-of-the-pack in terms of age.

Added to this will be the minimum number of VPs that keeps bottles ÷ people ≥ 1¼. We currently have 11×LBV + 1×VP = 12 bottles, by this rule enough for 9 people (12 ÷ 9 = 1⅓ > 1¼ > 1â…• = 12 ÷ 10). With the maximum 14 people this rule would require a total of 14×1¼ = 17½ bottles, but some might be LBVs.
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Re: Warre LBVs, Tue 23 April 2013 = St George’s Day

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Hi,

sadly I cannot make this due to newly arrived business requirements for this week. :(

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Is anyone conveniently close to Cirencester? If so, an auction in the next few days have some Warre 1969 LBV. I'll happily buy them (especially since it is my birth year) and bring one along to the Warre LBV tasting if they go for a fair price. Since collection or packing would likely cost as much as the bottles, if anyone is planning to attend or located close enough to pick them up easily, please let me know?
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Phil - have sent you a PM

Count me in - will bring the '62

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benread wrote:I would be very keen. They have always showed extremely well when I have had the chance.
I have been granted permission (despite the fact I am also taking my father to Lord's the following day!)
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First draft of the placemats.

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Please put in Axel+1

How about the decision of the Dirty Dozen?

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The New Yorkers (well, Chris Doty, who is a large proportion of the New Yorkers’ activity) has proposed a Warre VP & LBV tasting for autumn 2013 in New York City, perhaps at Alison Eighteen.
DRT then wrote:This feels like a good opportunity for a transatlantic effort. Parallel Warre VP + LBV tastings in London and New Amsterdam on the same day and with the same line-up, each with a Symington guest.
If that is to happen, and it is being discussed in the board and by email, then there will still be a London tasting on Tuesday 23rd April, just a different one.

One possible replacement is ‟The Dirty Dozen”, being a case of mostly unknowns bought by the team in 2012. Another would be to re-time the 1983-1985 Double Horizontal currently scheduled for Tuesday 2 April 2013. Or something different.

So, for the moment, there is some ‘up in the air’ about arrangements.
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This Warre LBV tasting will happen, hopefully prelapsarian, but not on 23rd April, which is to be a Dirty Dozen tasting, for which a thread will soon be started.
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jdaw1 wrote:23rd April, which is to be a Dirty Dozen tasting, for which a thread will soon be started.
Started.
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The Dirty Dozen having bumped the Warre LBVs from their place at St George’s Day, a new date is needed.

Who can make which Tuesdays in May: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th?
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jdaw1 wrote:Who can make which Tuesdays in May: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th?
All of those apart from 21st work for me.
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Of the dates suggested, I can make only the 14th.
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I'm confused. Is this still intended to happen on the same day as the NYC tasting or has that idea been abandoned...?
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You are confused. The Warre LBVs were set for April, but have been moved to happen possible once, possibly twice, one of which might be September(ish). There is still to be a tasting on 23rd April, but of ‘The Dirty Dozen’, being two sets of blind bottles that have come into the possession of the team.
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jdaw1 wrote:You are confused.
less unusual than you may think..
jdaw1 wrote:The Warre LBVs were set for April, but have been moved to happen possible once, possibly twice, one of which might be September(ish).
got it.
jdaw1 wrote:There is still to be a tasting on 23rd April, but of ‘The Dirty Dozen’, being two sets of blind bottles that have come into the possession of the team.
Now this much I know as I'm on the list for that.. and could even bring something.
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djewesbury wrote:Are these of any interest..?
They would be, but the seller appears to have a very high reserve, especially given the quantity of bottles. The same seller placed 10 of these bottles up around June(?) last year on bidforwine, and I think the bidding reached somewhere in the 250-300 mark and did not sell. One has presumably been drunk as there are now lots of 4 and 5 bottles, where the 4 bottle lot has a bid of £135 and is still reserve not met, so the reserve must be >£35 / bottle. Old LBV is not a high-demand item, especially in any quantity, this does not compare favourably to recent cases of good condition W70 and W77 VP going for 400-450/case (12-bottle) all-in at auction over the last six months.
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Choose words with care as the seller may well be reading this thread.
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