A tasting with proper decanters

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A tasting with proper decanters

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One of our number is building a database of pictures of bottles and such like. In seeking materials for him, I have revisited old pictures.

From a tasting that happened before I met you splendid folks:
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Please could we have a tasting with proper decanters. They give me the sensation, perhaps the self-delusion, of being a quality consumer of quality, rather than being aspirant trade. Please could we have a tasting with proper decanters.

Date, theme, etc, as yet unspecified. Such a tasting would have to be capped at ten people.
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Perhaps we could just recreate that tasting? Looks like a good theme....
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I'm not sure when this photo was taken but many of those ports were tasted as part of my first 'proper' tasting with TPF - the Cockburn vertical in October 2008 (I think). If the plan is to revisit that...
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I am more than likely to be "in".

So that's JDAW, DRT plus perhaps eight others? (more than ten and decanters don't really work)
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Subject to time, date and theme, I am in.

Of course, we usually have our Christmas offline drinking from proper decanters - we just don't know what to write on the decanter labels until after we open the bottles!
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I'm in..

How about an autumn bash at The Bell ?
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uncle tom wrote:I'm in..

How about an autumn bash at The Bell ?
I am, in principle, in, depending on where and when.
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AHB wrote:Subject to time, date and theme, I am in.
I'm in, subject to the same.
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