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Might I make a request for review and tasting note threads? I know how to create them, but I don't know how to link them, so make the request rather than simply going ahead and thereby, I fear, possibly creating some tedious work for someone else.

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@ Christopher - added

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I’m good for the 16th.

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I’m game, again date dependent.

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Please put me on the reserve list… I have none of the wines, in the specified time period, as for some reason Noval and I have very rarely chimed.

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So, assuming the bottle that Alex noted in 2013 to have been a sample with a different cork, the (statistically invalid) ratio of corked bottles appears a bit disturbing. I am willing to contribute to the cost of purchasing another bottle from a different cellar to those tasted so far, to see if we ...

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Have a lovely time!

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Will anyone be offering in halves, a chap said, in vain hope?

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Deep dark colour (as they all were bar the Graham and the Vale Meao). Nose developing nicely. Lovely wine with gobs of fruit but distinctly unready. I like it a lot, as did the group, but I'll leave it for a couple of decades.

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Dumb nose at first, which developed a little, later. Brutal palate, and fiercely dry. Shut down hard.

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Rubbery nose. Nice rich fruit. Thick and chocolatey with a ginger pudding note. Imperfect in this company.

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That nose! That palate! That glass staining colour! Lovely, lovely fruit. Closing down, but great.

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Rich and rather lovely for drinking now. If you were thirsty, you could probably drink quite a lot of it. A little warm, late. Very enjoyable.

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Positively butch, and a bit sinewy, on the palate. Not right. Corked? More air revealed - yes, corked.

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My first encounter with 2011 Quarles Harris. A happy encounter too. Lovely nose of bramble not blackcurrant. Palate full of lovely fruit. Got an HM from me (and another).

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Fabulous perfume. Big rich palate with enormous depth, and depths. The tannins are firm but ripe. Astonishingly good port. I will be dead before it reaches its summit, but I look forward to opening and drinking the occasional bottle too early. WOTN by a country mile.

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Big rich soft sweet port. Nice drinking but on this showing wil not make old bones. There was speculation that this bottle might be a bit sub-par. A resounding zero points, which I would have bet quite heavily against.

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Big grapey nose. But not as pretty as this house usually is on the palate. A bit disappointing. I think this had shut down hard.

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You find the same difference if you compare the 1970 BN and GB

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V Ca mildly corked.

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ETA 1830

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F decanted at 0745. Decanting sample confirms all well.

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I think we should travel in a convoy of classic minis, the suspensions rebuilt to take the weight of all the port gold , backed up by a series of erratically driven 1960s coaches. What could possibly go wrong? I’ll be Noel Coward as I’m probably the only one with a smoking jacket. I nominate Zak for...

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If there are 22 of us it is going to be ‘Magnum Week’, isn’t it?
‘TPF - Go Large Or Go Home’

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F stood up. Will be decanted in the morning.

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At a sale in the USA this week G70 was going for about the same money, so it can be done… I find the bargains are usually around lot 1138 (or equivalent) in a sale than has featured multiple pristine cases of Romanee Conti (or similar); bidder fatigue is real.

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Rarely in human history has a chap been so wrong as was flash_uk in that post...

I have high hopes for this tasting. I am very grateful that, due to the multiple kindnesses of others, I will be able to attend it.

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This is Blenheim Palace stock. Cork came out whole, and the wine poured clean to the last 25 ml as the sediment was resolutely stuck to the side opposite the label. 24 hour decant (kept in fridge) for this tasting note. A lovely light garnet right to the rim. 45% opaque. Nose has a nice cherries-in-...

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Thank you for organising. I am very interested.

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My very sincere thanks to Neil as orgainser…

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I am really rather looking forward to this tasting.

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A lot of 5 bottles was purchased at an advantageous price at auction before Christmas but I forgot to take delivery until this week. Lead capsule rather than plastic capsule. One was starting to seep - level still BN so I suspect an artefact of transport - but that meant swift condemnation to openin...

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I see Alex, in forty years, living in a sort of lodge* at Vesuvio, being held out daily to visitors as an example of the health-giving effects of three pints of port a day.

*One with 13 guest bedroom suites, not called ‘The Blue Room’ etc. but instead The Wiseman, The Archer, The Wakely etc.

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Ham hock terrine
Chicken supreme
Welsh rarebit

Much appreciated

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Pop and decant and pour from a bottle which has been in the ‘fridge for an hour. The colour of membrillo; a sort of singing light red. Very attractive - a colour that gets your hopes up. Nose has poached quince, star anise, a hint of walnut. Palate has an attractive cherry note but primarily a sort ...

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Damn. I am mandatorily away all of that week at a conference. Ironically it will be taking place at the Port Forum (in Barcelona).

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Interested, but need to check date

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I am tonight drinking some 2011 Sloe Gin, and reflecting on how much slightly elderly port (e.g. Dow 1960) tastes like it. Alas, it is the end of the magnum.

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To echo Alex’s comments on the 1977s, 1977 Warre here, and it is a joy, and a wine one can simply toss back too.

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I strongly suspect it was a combination of samples left over from a tasting, taken home by one of the staff for later consumption.

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Welsh rarebit starter
Crab linguini main
Lemon tart pudding

Much appreciated

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Paging Doty to the thread…

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1973 Quinta da Devesa Finest White Reserve Colheita bottled 2022 Pale rim, the centre a sun-baked mahogany. Nose has nut, candied greengage, a little candied lemon. Palate has an enveloping sweet honey note but then fans dramatically on the palate to more candied greengage and then fades gently fai...

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I am, by the kindness of CPR1, able to bring 1977.

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On the approved TPF model, the correct amount of port to own is an amount that your descendants unto the fourth generation will not be able to get through at the same rate. So, for your 75 bottles a year, somewhere around 9,000 will see you through.

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Ooh, goody, Neil's bringing the Butler Nephew. We had a very toothsome bottle of that at 67 PM about 5 years ago.

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Still working through this. The cardamom is very marked. A little orange peel oil, late.

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It really does look like a sort of fortified wine paradise. I could spend a happy month drinking the Madeira selection.

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Moderate amount of sediment Two hour decant Mid-garnet wine with a very pale rim but a nice glint to it Cardamom and cinnamon on the red boiled sweet nose. Smooth sweet palate - strawberry jam, then rhubarb jam, then echoes of the cardamom. A little cinnamon, very late. Not hugely complex, but still...

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Lovely deep colour. Big rich nose. Pontefract cakes. Deep flavoured and powerful port. Bravo.

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