The "Deeper Underground" Offline (28 Jan 2008)
If it turns into a 13-1 vote, I'm happy to throw in another £5 each and we'll share it 13 ways in stead of 14 ways. That would be quite humerous, one of the World reknown vintages and Ports, you're tasting all the classics of that year, and you choose not to taste that one.
Odd, but would add an interesting twist to events.
Odd, but would add an interesting twist to events.
Please close the poll with which this thread started
Please close the poll with which this thread started (the date), and amend the title of the first post. We don’t want a last-moment overtaking of the settled result!
I amended so that the Poll would run for 63 days which, by my calculation, would be yesterday. Unfortunately I do not know whether or not this has worked as the only people who can see if the Poll is open are those who have not yet voted.
Not sure why you want the title of the post amended?
Derek
Not sure why you want the title of the post amended?
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
More 1966s
So, at major risk of self-contradiction, should I have posted to the UK:I say we have enough.jdaw1 wrote:I’m in (twice) if there’s a team consensus. But fourteen ports is more than enough to fuzz my palate — I am unconvinced that it won’t be wasteful.
The "Deeper Underground" Offline (28 Jan 2008)
Not even to “The Deeper Underground Offline (28 Jan 2008)†? So that when there are hundreds of tasting arranging threads, it will be easy to find and identify?KillerB wrote:This is the best title for an off-line ever - do not change it.
Re: More 1966s
I saw those too. Unfortunately, I and one other here had a near miss with a Sandeman 1966 today. I have also put out some feelers to attempt to locate some of the missing bottles to see what options we have.jdaw1 wrote:So, at major risk of self-contradiction, should I have posted to the UK:I say we have enough.jdaw1 wrote:I’m in (twice) if there’s a team consensus. But fourteen ports is more than enough to fuzz my palate — I am unconvinced that it won’t be wasteful.
My view is that the two you have referenced above are costly for what they are, especially in light of the fact that we have added things like Fonseca and Graham's at a fraction of that cost.
But let's not rule anything out just yet. There is no harm in virtual window shopping
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
Re: More 1966s
The GC is a BBR bottling and looks in perfect conditionjdaw1 wrote:So, at major risk of self-contradiction, should I have posted to the UK:I say we have enough.jdaw1 wrote:I’m in (twice) if there’s a team consensus. But fourteen ports is more than enough to fuzz my palate — I am unconvinced that it won’t be wasteful.
No pictures of the SW but I did spot this on their list:
Cockburn's 1966 Vintage Port - unsurprisingly marked as Sold Out
Derek
PS: Cockburn's famously did not produce a 1966 VP
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
Totalling 588 bottle-years, this is going to be splendid
Already totalling 588 bottle-years, this is going to be quite splendid. {Everybody hide—explosion coming!}
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Re: Totalling 588 bottle-years, this is going to be splendid
No, you have used a compound unit there because you know that that is correct. You could not help it. If you had said 588 years then I would have growled like Marge Simpson or given you a very hard Paddington Bear stare. That would have shown you.jdaw1 wrote:Already totalling 588 bottle-years, this is going to be quite splendid. {Everybody hide—explosion coming!}
Port is basically a red drink
Totalling 588 bottle-years
I couldn’t. But I was hoping Derek T. would post before you.KillerB wrote:You could not help it.
Re: Totalling 588 bottle-years
Damn, missed my queue.jdaw1 wrote:I couldn’t. But I was hoping Derek T. would post before you.KillerB wrote:You could not help it.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
Re: Totalling 588 bottle-years
You meant, of course, “cue†. But you missed it anyway.Derek T. wrote:Damn, missed my queue.
Are we yet sufficiently off-topic to justify splittage? No! OK, I’ll wait.
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Re: The swingometer
Current updated score is:
Votes FOR including the Nacional 1966: 11
Votes AGAINST including the Nacional 1966: 1
Votes NOT YET CAST: 1
Derek
Votes FOR including the Nacional 1966: 11
Votes AGAINST including the Nacional 1966: 1
Votes NOT YET CAST: 1
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn