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I am very fond of a chart where the x axis is labelled “Drinks/Week”, but does not specify how many magnums decanters are deemed to equal one drink.

We are ten people: this is looking good. The Red Room has been booked. He whose deficit we are remedying has commanded sighted. Please reveal. Monday four days ago a fabulous Warre 1970 was opened: I will bring W70. Entertainingly, one possible attendee — not available — whose attention was drawn to...

CPR 1 wrote: ↑18:51 Thu 04 Dec 2025It is with regret that I must withdraw from the fun. Alas I need to be elsewhere on the 13th now.

A double loss for us. Maybe it can be a single loss: if we were to particularly desire the TV and the FG, please would you be willing to sell them to the tasting?

Boris Johnson, 7 July 2022 : “… the herd instinct is powerful and when the herd moves, it moves.” The herd has moved, and the herd has chosen the Monday 29th and rejected Tuesday 30th. This putative event will not happen. This putative event will not happen. The event on Monday 29th December 2025 w...

There is now a draft of the placemats; pictures in the first post (but I don’t know who is bringing which bottles).

We are four people: AJM, JDAW, MSC, MJM.

To slate your thirst, noble but gnawing, how many bottles each should we bring?

Per the most recent rules, there has not yet been a decision about who will attend. That will come later.

Alex M wrote: ↑15:17 Mon 01 Dec 2025‘Vintage Port that you would like to drink if you had not Vintage Port for 7 months’.

Under such terrible circumstances, would one want sighted or blind?

John Morgan is a bottler not known to the book. Sigh.

Commentary and opinion welcomed, on whether these are indexes or indices. I prefer indexes here, because it is a reference list of information. I would use indices to refer to more than one index, being a quantitative measure of something (like the FTSE100). Most commentary seems to simply distingu...

Do the three us of us want one of these sets of four bottles:

jdaw1 wrote: ↑21:37 Mon 24 Nov 2025I have two boxes of Quevedo’s 2014 closure comparison that need to be opened, and the contents compared.

BBC: Will Ireland's new alcohol warning labels turn people away from drinking? , 30 Nov 2025. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/318b/live/37d84b80-cc74-11f0-8c06-f5d460985095.jpg.webp The website is www.AskAboutAlcohol.ie , which then forwards to www2.hse.ie/living-well/alcohol/ . ...

We have become slower. In the table, first column is post number, second is date-time as a link, and third is days since previous row. 2 22:15 20 June 2007 10000 12:29 08 Feb 2008 233 20000 10:58 16 Nov 2008 282 30000 22:55 10 Oct 2009 328 40000 23:27 11 Jan ...

The Society's Exhibition Vintage Port 2011 : 'Absolutely singing' now, this Port from Symington Family Estates, put together exclusively for members, comes from a great vintage and our Wine Champions tasters voted it a 2025 winner. ‘Robust and rich’ with ‘lovely texture’, its rose-petal aromas and ...

…Warre (4 year bottling)… What more needs to be said? Is this a Warre LBV, bottled 1999 — which would be fine. Or is this more old-school, a Warre proper Vintage, accidentally bottled late. Given the post-1970ness of this tasting (tutting and sighing from some), I’ll assume the former, consistent w...

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑07:59 Mon 29 Sep 2025If Tom’s happy for me to do so, I can transfer ownership of the first post and the updating can happen.

The owner of the first post has changed to Alex Bridgeman.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑21:50 Wed 26 Nov 2025Draft of the ‘placemats’, meaning sticky labels and TN sheets and voting pages.

There is an obvious bug in the software, which will soon receive attention.

Bug fixed. Likely, I was the only person who noticed.

So far we are three. What theme?

uncle tom wrote: ↑08:28 Tue 25 Nov 2025
jdaw1 wrote: ↑20:20 Mon 24 Nov 2025Do you want ‘placemats’, meaning sticky labels?
Yes please

Draft of the ‘placemats’, meaning sticky labels and TN sheets and voting pages.

There is an obvious bug in the software, which will soon receive attention.

I have two boxes of Quevedo’s 2014 closure comparison that need to be opened, and the contents compared. Is there a market for a tasting with the theme ‘Something Interesting’?

This post to hold plans as and when agreed.

• When: 18:00 on Tuesday 6^th Jan 2026.

• Location: Boot & Flogger.

• Theme: Something Interesting.

Do you want ‘placemats’, meaning sticky labels?

Because of the forthcoming in-law invasion, the government has declared an emergency, for Tuesday 30th December 2025.

You know what to do.

This putative event will not happen. The event on Monday 29th December 2025 will happen. Seek company there. This post reserved to hold agreed plans. When: 18:00 on Tue 30 Dec 2025. Location: Boot & Flogger. As yet, no booking has been made. Theme: Port to Drink with Friends, whether during an ...

Because of the forthcoming zombie invasion (it might be that; might be something worse), the government has declared an emergency, for Monday 29th December 2025.

You know what to do.

This post reserved to hold agreed plans. When: 18:00 on Mon 29 Dec 2025. Location: Boot & Flogger. As yet, no booking has been made. Theme: ‘Vintage Port that you would like to drink if you had not Vintage Port for 7 months’. Under such terrible circumstances, would one want sighted or blind? Si...

For the London tasting there is now a draft of the placemats, pictures of which have been added to the first post.

@AHB: please say more about that claimed to be Warre.

Are we game for mischief? (Is that even a question?)

Should we all open an extra Symington ’85?

FTLoP review thread.

Placemats:

‡ = Non-Raby Taylor 1948; † = Taylor 1997.

My TNs posted: please post yours.

My TNs posted: please post yours. So Ben P. started a bring-a-bottle tasting, and Cliff posted early : “I'll bring some Raby ports.”; then “Will bring Raby ports D27, F34, T48 and Ck50”. Ah: that’s the game. And thank you — what a great game. Conclusions: 1934 Fonseca , cold-stored, is Hall-of-Glory...

T97, blind from Mike as he didn’t trust his N60. Cloudy dark dark red, 90% opaque. Dry; blurry. Mis-guessed, but not very mis-guessed, as a wrong D85.

T48, non-Raby, from a bottle that had an imperfection which I was told but have forgotten. Served blind. Red-orange, 50% opaque. Slight dirt on nose. Palate sweet, dry grip, slightly oleaginousness. Others liked more. Mis-guessed (playing the man!) as D24.

G00, dark dark dark red, 98% opaque. Big and juicy, lots of balckcurrants, and sweet. But lighter than it should be. Still, drinkable with great pleasure, especially from magnum.

F77, red red brown, 40% opaque. Palate lovely, light (shouldn’t be), mostly sweet but dry MP. Still very pleasant Port, but F77 once held more promise.

FG62. Orange-brown, 30% opaque. Palate started with citrus, which became acidity. Light, and weak at end. “End-of-life care.”

F66, dark red, 50% opaque. Stinky nose. There might have been goodness behind the stink, but I couldn’t search for long.

N66, dark red, 55% opaque. Nose of red fruit. Soft mature VP in early palate, with bitterness coming later; raspberries; excellent, very ’66, and fully mature. Do not wait.

F63, dark red, 50% opaque. Big red fruit, soft, big Port. This is the traditional best of the ’63s behaving as in days of yore. Yum.

N63 , bottled by Grants of St James’s. red-brown, 35% opaque. Very mature, bitter mid-palate, and soft burnt caramel late palate. Long ending, but this is far past prime. It’s not rare enough that I need to preserve for tastings, and one of the ’63 babies on this forum has, in effect, unbounded sup...

N60, brown, 35% opaque. Smoky; dusty; light; acidity; slight exotic fruit. Nice, but far past prime — too much acidity. Second among the 1960s (Mz60 > N60 > T60 ≈ G60).

G60, brown orange, 25% opaque. too stinky to taste. Approximately worst of the 1960s (Mz60 > N60 > T60 ≈ G60).

T60, dirty orange, 25% opaque. Taste of dirty pineapple. Approximately worst of the 1960s (Mz60 > N60 > T60 ≈ G60).

Mz60, in a small glass. Red-brown, 30% opaque. Presence; grip; structure; also heat. The best of the 1960s (Mz60 > N60 > T60 ≈ G60).

Mk55, dark dark red, 70% opaque, just like Mk55s passim. Dry, slightly baga, with grip especially mid-palate. Liked, a lot.

later drier, but still excellent.

Cr55. Red-brown, 35% opaque. Soft, with marzipan, heat mid-palate. Good mature VP, past prime.

Later it had deteriorated: drier, simpler.

Ck50 , Raby Castle. This is from a junior year. 1950 — a delicate wine of quality, growing up very quickly and valuable to ﬁll the gap between 1947 and 1955. But really good! Light, smooth, still youthful, and in different company could have been a very worthy WOTN. Cold steady storage is a good th...

T48 , Raby Castle. Dark red, 60% opaque. Nose of dark cherries. Thick, thick, thich plum smoothie, then dry mid-palate, then sweet mid-palate. best texture ever in a totally mature Port. Fantastic! Again, like the F34 , in my Hall of Glory. Which better? Difficult. T48 texture far superior; F34 sli...

F34 , Raby Castle. Glorious dark red, 55% opaque. “Oh, that is truly wonderful. Red fruit, white pepper mid-palate, soft soft soft. Just so hanging together, complex and fabulous. Like the T48 , in my Hall of Glory. Which better? Difficult. F34 slightly more complex; T48 texture far superior. I don...

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