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So I was considering, what fun methods could you use to heat this? I was thinking initially use a bbq chimney starter as it gets hot quick, good heat flow and then you can start a bbq after. I thought this was too sensible so onto the reason I asked for the picture and material. It was to see if it ...

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Could you post a clear top down and side view here of them? I have some ideas that I want to test...

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What are the port tongs metal? Is it some iron derivative? Steel, cast iron, etc.

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Worth noting that Vintage Wine and Port is arranging a 2024 tasting in London for 30th June.

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PhilW wrote: ↑13:08 Fri 22 May 2026 n.b. I'm in the attendees list twice, once with specified wine but unconfirmed, and once with unknown wine but confirmed. I'm not that confused.

Fixed.

akzy

Sadly, I am unable to attend. My gateway Port was literally the first Port that I ever tasted - a Porto Rocha 20 Year Old Tawny Port. It was given to me for my 40th birthday in 2004, by one of my several friends who had been trying for years to find something that I liked to drink. Other than "...

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The red room is now booked for 6th October.

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How does Tuesday 6th October sit? Please confirm if you're ok with it and with enough mass, I'll arrange a booking - guessing Red Room.

akzy

I have always enjoyed Port (supermarket ruby and LBVs), but I really went down the rabbit hole in 27th March 2018 when I stepped into the Cockburn lodge in Porto and tried the 2011 VP. I was absolutely blown away and paid far too much on a bottle on the spot. This was my gateway Port. I think it wou...

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Yes please. Should actually make it this time.

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Incredibly useful thread for me as I'm buying Port for my twins birth year. I have about £1000 to spend - how would those at this tasting split it?

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Big blueberry nose, lovely fruity. I really want to stress what a great nose this was. Started a bit short but opened up nicely over the evening. Joint WOTN for me.

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Big nose - lovely. Strawberry palate that's well integrated. Easy drinking and could drink a lot of this. Joint WOTN for me.

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Mid weight on nose. Bit spicy but otherwise nice, not great.

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Corked nose. Didn't taste great either. Much left in glasses at the end.

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A relatively floral palate - a bit different to company but nice. Tannic, good palate, bit short.

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Great nose, great palate. Alive and drinking very well now.

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Muted nose for me. Didn't think much of it on palate either.

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Nothing on the nose. Nice fruity palate though, if not a bit of a workout.

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My notes merely say "Tannic - Great"

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Fruity nose - raspberries on the palate. Bit short lived. Otherwise nice.

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Yes please!

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Christopher, thank you for organising a wonderful tasting. Lovely to catch up with folks!

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GST, F, and VM/V/Fr... what a finish for Ferreira! I'd have never guessed it could finish that high in this group of Ports. All third places were well deserved. Bar the capella which was obviously dodgy, an excellent showing! What was (perhaps worryingly) wrong with the Capela? Bottle was a duff. C...

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Glenn E. wrote: ↑19:57 Thu 23 Apr 2026 GST, F, and VM/V/Fr... what a finish for Ferreira! I'd have never guessed it could finish that high in this group of Ports.

All third places were well deserved. Bar the capella which was obviously dodgy, an excellent showing!

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winesecretary wrote: ↑22:16 Wed 22 Apr 2026 I nominate Zak for the Michael Caine role.

"You were only supposed to pull the bluddy cork out!"

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Decanted 7:30am on day of tasting - double decanted at 3pm. Qa sample A-OK.

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V decanted 7:30am and all is good with the world and it.

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Should about 50 stars align, I would be interested. A reserve is more realistic.

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Before analysis of the more subtle attack described by Julian, the Quadrature method looked the most effective for defence against simple attacker, but the effort of calculation and hence risk of error might outweigh the risk of TSF (though perhaps not of "vote for my own wine" bias!). I ...

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For me,
Ham hock terrine
Burger + cheese + bacon

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but you seem to have decided that it would be a stupid malicious voter. What part of TSF didn't you understand? Henceforth we must assume that newbies are hostile, and so for our own safety we should require them to vote early. To newbies, I am so very sorry but it's for the best. Don’t even ask vo...

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Harken back if you will to TPF award ceremony 2022. . An excellent evening I'm sure you'll all agree. What keeps me up at night however is that it would have only taken 1 swapped vote for the N70 to beat the objectively better F63. What would happen if our group of sane Port-ers was to be infiltrate...

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I think Vesuvio is the only thing I have easily on hand.

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Yes please. Do I need to calculate the likelihood of survival for this?

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nac wrote: ↑16:42 Sun 25 Jan 2026 Just realised that I'm not on the list for this. Please add. Assume my attendance. I'll only be 81.

Spawning another 10 million universes. The chance of a full tasting is now 41%.

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Unfortunately won't be able to make it. I will get to one soon!

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Should have a good idea by Tuesday if possible.

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Outside chance for me to attend this - should know more first week of new year. Would need to adopt.

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Hopefully this is thermal isolation of the back end of the thermometer, as we want the front end connected to the reality being measured. You actually want to measure things? Pfft. No one told me that! For that much money I’d want to know the humidity as well. And maybe have records of the recent m...

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I recall a physicist remarking that thermometers are difficult to calibrate. What do people use, and do they know it to be accurate? Are mercury thermometers the most likely to be stably accurate? Etc. I do love a good deep dive. Zak's top 5 4 Thermometers to buy your loved ones this Christmas that...

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jdaw1 wrote: ↑21:07 Fri 05 Dec 2025 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.

It took a while to find it in the paper. A drink is 5 fl oz. Of wine (12% abv). I approximated a bottle of port to be 10 drinks.

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Eurgh. Back to the data mines I go. Integrating the fact we drink more Previously we had the 'lx' table which starts with 100k people and each year calculates how many are left. If we have the mortality multiplier (otherwise known as a HR = hazard ratio) which can get the change in probability over...

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I think that you are missing how much port do we consume in a year and what the impact of this is on our bodies. Eurgh. Back to the data mines I go. I think that Zak’s post has to go straight into the pantheon of all time greats. Best laugh I’ve had since the Budget and (assuming he only needs the ...

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So after enjoying a Rose port from my Quevedo advent calendar I started reading this... [*]Second: Enthusiasm for Port, at least partly measured by scale and quality of role and presence, both offline and online. [*]Third: pleasurability of company. I became terribly concerned. How would one actuall...

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Hello, This is my first post in this forum. I was reading this thread as I will be getting a Coravin 6 system in the idea of finally enjoying some vintage ports that I have been keeping for some 20 years in a cellar. The last posts in this thread goes back a few years so before sticking a needle in...

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I've sent a message.

dsnotts wrote: ↑14:03 Wed 12 Nov 2025 Hi,

I have another 1993 Cockburn's LBV for sale (and a 2005 Niepoort) - please DM me if interested...

Best
DS

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I've sent a message.

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