2014 pre-Harvest Tour tasting, London, 9/23

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Re: 2014 pre-Harvest Tour tasting, London, 9/23

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A shame that TBH is not available. Are we likely to be required to pay corkage at another venue? How about Davy’s at Woolgate Bar and Brasserie...has the same steak menu as TBH, near to 3 tube stations and seems to have private dining for 10.
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flash_uk wrote:How about Davy’s at Woolgate Bar and Brasserie
A mere 100 yards from my office 88)
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flash_uk wrote:How about Davy’s at Woolgate Bar and Brasserie
A mere 100 yards from my office 88)
Presumably you have happened to attend the venue on occasion? Would it suit our purposes?
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I have only been there once and did not assess its suitability as a tasting venue.

I am happy to wander over sometime this week to speak to them and take a look at the room.

Will report back soon.
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DRT wrote:I have only been there once and did not assess its suitability as a tasting venue.
I am happy to wander over sometime this week to speak to them and take a look at the room.
Will report back soon.
Thanks Derek, that would be helpful; if it looks decent, I'll respond back to Carly and find out whether they have enough glasses (likely since they do wine courses there) and whether they have room for us that night - unless you ask while you're there and pre-book us if it's available and let us know? Cheers.
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flash_uk wrote:A shame that TBH is not available. Are we likely to be required to pay corkage at another venue? How about Davy’s at Woolgate Bar and Brasserie...has the same steak menu as TBH, near to 3 tube stations and seems to have private dining for 10.
Looks good to me. Probably about 1.5 km from my hotel, but an easy cab ride. Probably not worth taking the tube as it appears you'd have to walk 1/3 of the way back to get an appropriate station.

Could TBH not intervene on our behalf since our reservation there is falling through?
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DRT wrote:
flash_uk wrote:How about Davy’s at Woolgate Bar and Brasserie
A mere 100 yards from my office 88)
When I worked at Mobliss in the Smith Tower in Seattle, we referred to the bar halfway down the block as "Conference Room C."
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CPR 1 wrote:I plan to bring a bottle of Smith Woodhouse 77
Splendid, I add it to the list. :)
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Placemats draft attached, pending updates for:
1. Location
2. RAYC's bottle id
3. DJ confirming if/not attending

ok... The draft would have been attached, except that "the extension pdf is not allowed" when adding an attachment to a post... admin??!!
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PDF's are not allowed due to the size of the files. Normal practice is to host the file somewhere else on the web and post a link on :tpf:

As this is a placemat JDAW will no doubt offer assistance.
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DRT wrote:PDF's are not allowed due to the size of the files. Normal practice is to host the file somewhere else on the web and post a link on :tpf:
Thanks Derek; Julian said much the same by PM. I'll post it to my website and link then.
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Placemats draft here, pending updates for:
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2. RAYC's bottle id
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One little wrinkle in the placemats - you have the circle text for the TV69 and G66 transposed :)
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flash_uk wrote:One little wrinkle in the placemats - you have the circle text for the TV69 and G66 transposed :)
Thank you - well spotted; I also couldn't remember your initials, so just put "Flash" ;)
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AW77 wrote:I have now purchased a bottle of F85 from BBR. Flash_uk has volunteered to pick it up and bring it already decanted to the tasting.
F85 has been collected and is now standing to attention awaiting decant at the appropriate time in advance :wink:
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PhilW wrote:I also couldn't remember your initials, so just put "Flash" ;)
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flash_uk wrote:
AW77 wrote:I have now purchased a bottle of F85 from BBR. Flash_uk has volunteered to pick it up and bring it already decanted to the tasting.
F85 has been collected and is now standing to attention awaiting decant at the appropriate time in advance :wink:
Great. Thanks a lot. Just decant it for as long as you think fit. You're the expert on F85. :wink:
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Flight booked!!

What am I bringing?
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djewesbury wrote:Flight booked!!

What am I bringing?
Excellent!

We currently have a white, 5 VPs, a Garrafeira, and a Colheita. Also one unclear 1964, likely a VP or Colheita.

What would you like to bring? It's such a difficult theme. ;-)
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djewesbury wrote:Flight booked!!

What am I bringing?
Bring an 1864 so that you can compare the 1964 and the 1864 side by side and see what difference 100 years makes to a Port.

Or failing that, decide whether you'd prefer "too much brown sticky stuff" or a bottle of proper red port.
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AHB wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Flight booked!!

What am I bringing?
Bring an 1864 so that you can compare the 1964 and the 1864 side by side and see what difference 100 years makes to a Port.

Or failing that, decide whether you'd prefer "too much brown sticky stuff" or a bottle of proper red port.
Tart. Very tart.
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Glenn E. wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Flight booked!!

What am I bringing?
Excellent!

We currently have a white, 5 VPs, a Garrafeira, and a Colheita. Also one unclear 1964, likely a VP or Colheita.

What would you like to bring? It's such a difficult theme. ;-)
I can see a very obvious omission here. We need a Graham 85.
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djewesbury wrote:
Glenn E. wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Flight booked!!

What am I bringing?
Excellent!

We currently have a white, 5 VPs, a Garrafeira, and a Colheita. Also one unclear 1964, likely a VP or Colheita.

What would you like to bring? It's such a difficult theme. ;-)
I can see a very obvious omission here. We need a Graham Taylor 85.
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AHB wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
Glenn E. wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Flight booked!!

What am I bringing?
Excellent!

We currently have a white, 5 VPs, a Garrafeira, and a Colheita. Also one unclear 1964, likely a VP or Colheita.

What would you like to bring? It's such a difficult theme. ;-)
I can see a very obvious omission here. We need a Graham Taylor 85.
We already have a Fonseca and a Taylor. I think Daniel may be on to something.

In that case, though, hopefully RAYC was thinking of the 1964 Taylor Colheita and not the 1964 Taylor Vargellas VP. Two bottles of the brown sticky stuff does not seem like "too much" if there are 6 bottles of VP and 1 bottle of white. ;)
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OK, a G85 will be with us on the night, but I will only be arriving in the afternoon - can I send this to someone who might be able to decant in the morning? Mike? Ian?
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