The proposed date is St George's Day 2051, being the 40th anniversary of the declaration of the vintage.
People hoping to attend.jdaw1 wrote: ↑21:33 Fri 27 Aug 2021The Rules
- The possible attendees have been combined into a single list.
- Nearer the time, the organiser (originally Derek, now JDAW, but not necessarily remaining JDAW) will select the fourteen attendees. In making that selection, the organiser will have regard to the following.
- First: bottles that person would bring.
- Second: enthusiasm for Port, at least partly measured by scale and quality of role and presence, both offline and online.
- Third: pleasurability of company.
- Distant fourth: timeliness of requesting a place. (This isn’t quite the same as ordering by date of first request: somebody now young who becomes a Port enthusiast might be very timely even if making the request a decade from now.)
- DRT;
- DJ;
- JDAW;
- CaliforniaBrad;
- ADV;
- AHB;
- JHG;
- THRA;
- RAYC;
- PW;
- WPS;
- BMHR;
- TLW;
- PEM;
- GEE;
- SCD;
- MPM;
- IDJ
- GD;
- RK;
- Caparica;
- Justin K;
- /2alph;
- Jasper May;
- differentdave + son;
- RON;
- ZDR.
Bottles:
- Barão de Vilar (PEM);
- Cockburn (BPB);
- Croft (JHG);
- Dow (DRT, JDAW);
- Ferreira (AHB);
- Fonseca (DJ, SCD {Magnum}, PEM);
- Graham (AHB, JHG);
- Graham Stone Terraces (AHB—"hopefully", SCD);
- Niepoort (DRT, PEM);
- Niepoort Bioma (DJ);
- Niepoort Morgadio da Calçada (PEM);
- Offley Boa Vista (DRT, AHB);
- Pintas (AHB);
- Quinta do Noval (DRT, BPB, PEM);
- Quinta do Noval Nacional (ADV {Magnum});
- Quinta da Romaneira (AHB);
- Quinta de Vale da Dona Maria (AHB, PEM);
- Quinta do Vesuvio (JHG);
- Quinta do Vesuvio Capela (DJ, PEM);
- Quevedo (DRT, JDAW, JHG {Imperial}, PEM);
- Sandeman (AHB);
- Skeffington (AHB);
- Smith Woodhouse (BPB, PEM);
- Taylor (DJ, PEM);
- Vieira de Sousa (PEM);
- Waitrose Symington (SCD);
- Warre (DRT).
Current draft of the placemats. (Do not print from this link. A few days before the tasting there will temporarily be a different link, to counteract problems with the caching of old drafts.)
These files will be updated from time to time. Indeed, to facilitate updates if I should become ‘indisposed’ before the event, the PostScript file has also been uploaded: change the “.pdf” to “.ps” in the obvious way.