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Please post the booklets in the Port-box enclosures thread, or lend them to me and I’ll do it.

Please tell us of provenance.

mcoulson wrote: ↑19:38 Wed 11 Mar 2026any body like a Mk1 cork rest ??

Yes please.

nac wrote: ↑13:25 Mon 09 Mar 2026Slight change. Tony is going to bring the Graham.

The placemats and the images in the first post have been updated.

In the FT there was a good comment from somebody with handle “Vintage Chateau d'Yquem”. Doing nothing was never going to be a sensible possibility. Edit: OJS adopting one of the KL70 that was excess from last year’s horizontal, in return for an extra £60 to the team food bill (as well as own share)....

Glenn E. wrote: ↑17:35 Mon 09 Mar 2026Unfortunately I don't have the time to do that right at this moment.

It is urgent: the task really ought to be completed before the end of this decade.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑14:41 Sat 28 Feb 2026Seven years ago we commemorated Victoria’s 200th (planning, review).

To which I took Warre 1966, so, precedent having been set, I’ll bring a Warre 1966 for E2’s C^th. Others, please reveal.

flash_uk wrote: ↑14:29 Sat 07 Mar 2026Now he gets to drink Dow 1896

As would have been obvious from a brief inspection of the ranks, D96 has been my usual quaff for ages.

nac wrote: ↑07:50 Sat 07 Mar 2026I have Graham so will bring that as well.

Thank you. The placemats have been accordingly amended, and images are still in the first post.

Who is to print?

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑00:00 Sat 07 Mar 2026a second bottle of Fonseca.

AHB and a second bottle of Fonseca have been added to the placemats (images in the first post).

My day has become more complicated — I need to attend a funeral in Poole. So I’ll be coming direct from that to this.

Either:
• Pls can I transfer a G66 to somebody before then? Or
• Pls may I adopt rather than bring?

Greetings.

I admit that your screen name had me hesitating over the ‘likely-spam-so-delete’ button: hence I second the request for something like a real name.

Also, one can decant Port, drink a fraction of it, and then have the decanter in the fridge to be finished the following day. So I’m told.

Thank you for allowing a critique of this design. This is a Ferreira vertical (to which, regrettably, I had not been invited). So all the Ports are Ferreira. What differs is the vintage. So the thing about each that should be said most clearly, the thing that should be shouted rather than whispered,...

Issue 172 asks whether the default value for DecantingNotesNumCopies should be a plain 0.

The “Fr83” was Ferreira Quinta do Seixo 1983.

My Noval 1960 is hereby downgraded to a ‘believed Noval 1960’. Noval is currently marked in the second post as “Noval [IDJ,MPM,CPR,GEAG,AHB]”, so your uncertainty is surely not a major disaster. I don't have any Ramos Pinto 1960 so won't be able to bring that, even though my name is against it on t...

winesecretary wrote: ↑22:48 Sat 28 Feb 2026I’m prepared to bet money that the winners are on the left side of the place mats…

Out of interest, how much money?

mcoulson wrote: ↑14:51 Sat 28 Feb 2026Sounds like fun ... May I join in please?

Of course. And two is more than a quorum — Thunderbirds Are Go!

Seven years ago we commemorated Victoria’s 200th ( planning , review ). It is a good precedent, and Tuesday 21 st April 2026 would have been the hundredth birthday of the late Queen Elizabeth II. For Victoria the theme was “Port Fit for a Queen, again”, the theme for E2>V having been “Port Fit for a...

This post to hold arrangements as and when made. Location: likely the Boot & Flogger . Theme: Port Fit for a Queen. People: JDAW (W66); MSC (???); AHB , who has almost hard-promised to attend (???); CPR (???); NAC (???); HTWH (???); NPM (W77); PW (???); OJS (KL70 from THRA). Bottles: 1966 Warre...

A draft of the placemats has been added to the first post.

Maybe. Include me out, and if that attempts to change unsuccessfully, it’s on me.

Boeuf …ignon. Or Bolognese.

If I read the thread correctly, I believe there are three two extra glass spaces ls remaining? There were three, https://www.jdawiseman.com/2026/20260225_aShape.svg https://www.jdawiseman.com/2026/20260225_bShape.svg https://www.jdawiseman.com/2026/20260225_cShape.svg (perhaps to be named ‘four’, ‘...

Re: Sighted somethings, Wed 25 Feb 2026 Beautiful cork, extracted beautifully.

Beautiful cork, extracted beautifully.

Fonseca 1985 opened, to be audouzed for a few hours. Will be decanted later this evening, and kept aggressively cool until tomorrow evening.

There is a draft of the placemats; images in the first post. As always, please, somebody check carefully.

• Soup of the day (if not spicy);
• Burger, as rare as allowed, + skinny fires, + mixed salad;
• Welsh rarebit (extra extra extra extra cheesy).

nac wrote: ↑17:52 Mon 23 Feb 2026Julian - bottles?

1966s: I have a little Graham, less Fonseca, and even less Warre.

I might have Vargellas and/or Madalena. Need to check.

Anyway, yes please.

Edit: checked, and stock is merely 1 × SWM05, 1 × TV05, 1 × Qv05, 2 × WC05. All are at your command.

hadge wrote: ↑21:33 Thu 19 Feb 2026please can I use your time machine?

I accept the reprimand.

winesecretary wrote: ↑11:16 Thu 19 Feb 20265th Jan would be good. March equally ditto.

Tuesday 5^th January 2026 likely to work for me.

Justin K wrote: ↑18:15 Thu 19 Feb 2026I agree as there is no mention of fortification in the New Testament, not, I hasten to add, that I am any kind of expert

My understanding was that distillation for drinking did not happen until, approx., midway between JC and the Council of Nicea.

nac wrote: ↑09:24 Thu 19 Feb 2026Given the identity of the attendees, might a couple of additional (as yet to be determined) spaces on the placemats be advisable?

My schoolboy error is regretted, and has been remedied.

Of course, if given advance notice of ‘surprises’, things could be better still.

Done.
• Food order updated; B&F told; Green Room likely.
• I’ll bring the F85 that Charles isn’t.

winesecretary wrote: ↑20:36 Wed 18 Feb 2026Possibly February 2027?

Works for me. Tuesdays are 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, and 23^rd..

winesecretary wrote: ↑20:36 Wed 18 Feb 2026I find there is an NN 87 in my possession but I think it’s JDAW’s.

It is yours. And if it was not yours, it is hereby yours.

CPR 1 wrote: ↑19:43 Wed 18 Feb 2026I am afraid to update that the F85 has turned into a Dow 1970

It’s not something about which to be “afraid”, even if not quite John 2:1–11.

Tuesday 19^th January 2027: works for me.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑16:42 Wed 18 Feb 2026I am going to have to withdraw from this tasting.

Would you like the Quevedo closure part of it postponed until a date you can manage, while the other bottles — and something from me — are drunk this on 25^th February?

Would you welcome my seizing ancient organiser powers and declaring this?

An early draft of the placemats has been added to the first post. Doubtless many changes to come.

Of the three houses, only Smith Woodhouse has its own quinta, so I have re-ordered the names with that first. If wrong, please do counter-instruct.

I might also have GC77 in magnum, as likely, do several others.

Before I met the people here, I did think that did that the tastings I arranged were good. Hell no: junior practice stuff. Of which I was reminded by: I suspect we have very little between us pre 1977… which was followed by I will bring the 1931 and the 1935 I have 24, 34, 64, 70, 77, 80, 83, 85, 94...

Yes please. Re dates, I am at your command. Re bottles, I will check, but have not much.

Edit: I have SW77 in magnum, which has not always been satisfactory; QH94; SW97 from OWC; and one only of each of SWM05 and SWM13.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑13:55 Sat 07 Feb 2026The food order is believed complete.

… and has been sent (though changes might still work).

jdaw1 wrote: ↑13:55 Sat 07 Feb 2026@Harry: bottle revelation please.

@Harry: please.

Thank you. That is an excellent reply, well engaging with our silliness, and has been posted on the forum. If you want to comment on the “batshit crazy” at https://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7145&p=141602#p141602 and https://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7145&p=141609#p1416...

jdaw1 wrote: ↑21:28 Fri 23 Jan 2026Oh, yes please.

Please could I be added to the list?

I’ll decant early morning, and keep cool.

Edit: decanted 07:35; smelt good; in box adjacent to ice pack.

All my fancy 2011s are in storage, and generally not for me.

So, with permission of the organiser, I intend to bring both of those I have at home (the widely-available M&S, and the rare Quarles Harris), and also adopt a prestige name.

Morning Julian and Port Forum crew, I have created a Booking for you for the 23rd April 2051 in our current booking engine, whole lower floor rom 12pm-6pm, you can contact and adjust time and number of remaining attendees closer to the date. I have added a "follow up" on the 9th January 2...

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