Tuesday 29th July: Bring a bottle to share

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Tuesday 29th July: Bring a bottle to share

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There seems to be a bit of a summer lull in London tastings. Is there any appetite (or thirst) for an informal evening at the BH or is everyone busy watching Wimbledon, World Cup or Cricket? I keep hearing the siren call from some of my bottles (could also be tinnitus), and thus like a moth to a flame, there can be only one outcome, an experience which would be greatly enhanced in the company of other Lepidoptera.

Poor attempt at allegory aside, let me know if anyone is around and interested on Tues/Weds in July.

Tuesday 29th July
- AHB
- MW
- flash_uk
- CPR1
- idj123
- uncle tom



/Magnus
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I was having very similar thoughts today. I'm defintely interested in meeting up at TBH in July for some port.

However, my diary looks horrid over the next month - I could make 29 or 30 July, 29 would probably work a little better than the 30th.


Anyone interested in meeting in Leeds on 15th July? No, thought not...
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PopulusTremula wrote:let me know if anyone is around and interested on Tues/Weds in July.
Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th work for me (unless The Boss tells me, or has already told me and I have forgotten, to the contrary).
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jdaw1 wrote:
PopulusTremula wrote:let me know if anyone is around and interested on Tues/Weds in July.
Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th work for me (unless The Boss tells me, or has already told me and I have forgotten, to the contrary).
Err, make that Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th. I have been told.
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As the proposed dates are not mutually exclusive, please indicate your interest for either or both of:

Wednesday 9th July
- jdaw1
- MW

Tuesday 29th July
- AHB
- MW

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Both would work for me. But 29th is better
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Tentative for 29th. 9th no good for me.
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I have edited the first post to list the potential dates and attendees. Looks like 29th is the one.
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Tuesday 29th July is also good for me.
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jdaw1 wrote:Tuesday 29th July is also good for me.
Silly fool: you should have known that you can’t do that day. Idiot!
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No preference for either of these over the other but count me in.
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jdaw1 wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:Tuesday 29th July is also good for me.
Silly fool: you should have known that you can’t do that day. Idiot!
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Can't do the ninth, but most other days do-able.

Certainly high time we had an informal get-together to drink through a few odd bottles...
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Is there a compelling reason that we need to restrict ourselves to just one such event?
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jdaw1 wrote:Is there a compelling reason that we need to restrict ourselves to just one such event?
Yes. DRT's health.
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AHB wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:Is there a compelling reason that we need to restrict ourselves to just one such event?
Yes. DRT's health.
We could chip in and get him a spittoon.
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cannot do this week but can maybe do the 29th. Not sure though yet. Do we do port or also wine? The thread is not clear cut!

Would like to do an offline in August, what about the 20th or 27th?

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WS1 wrote:cannot do this week but can maybe do the 29th. Not sure though yet. Do we do port or also wine? The thread is not clear cut!

Would like to do an offline in August, what about the 20th or 27th?

regards

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You say that the thread isn't clear cut, and in the very next line you turn it into an organising thread for a tasting in August! Honestly...
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djewesbury wrote:
WS1 wrote:cannot do this week but can maybe do the 29th. Not sure though yet. Do we do port or also wine? The thread is not clear cut!

Would like to do an offline in August, what about the 20th or 27th?

regards

WS1
You say that the thread isn't clear cut, and in the very next line you turn it into an organising thread for a tasting in August! Honestly...
The thread is not clear cut; but never mind I just decided I better stay out.
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WS1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
WS1 wrote:cannot do this week but can maybe do the 29th. Not sure though yet. Do we do port or also wine? The thread is not clear cut!

Would like to do an offline in August, what about the 20th or 27th?

regards

WS1
You say that the thread isn't clear cut, and in the very next line you turn it into an organising thread for a tasting in August! Honestly...
The thread is not clear cut; but never mind I just decided I better stay out.

Wolfgang: My proposal of a get together, which i had hoped you could attend, was intended to be towards the informal end of the tasting spectrum with sighted bottles of port. I had also planned to bring a bottle of Portugese dry red wine to share when eating and would not object to others bringing non-port.

I have edited the original post to update attendees. I am no longer available tomorrow (9th July) as I am required on the home front.
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Taken it as read that the 9th was not going ahead (I should have put my hand up to propose 17 July as am up in town on that afternoon in any respect). Am also amenable to Wolfgang's suggested dates for an August on-line.
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idj123 wrote:Taken it as read that the 9th was not going ahead (I should have put my hand up to propose 17 July as am up in town on that afternoon in any respect). Am also amenable to Wolfgang's suggested dates for an August on-line.
Removed you from 9th, kept you on for 29th.
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Please would you change the title to show the date as Tuesday 29th July.

Has anyone booked TBH?

Thanks.
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AHB wrote:Please would you change the title to show the date as Tuesday 29th July.

Has anyone booked TBH?

Thanks.
Title has been changed.

Function room not available at TBH, have booked a table for 8 in the restaurant from 6pm. This will hopefully be OK considering the intended informality of the event but please let me know if not.

/Magnus
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PopulusTremula wrote:Function room not available at TBH, have booked a table for 8 in the restaurant from 6pm. This will hopefully be OK considering the intended informality of the event but please let me know if not.
Absolutely fine by me.
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