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I'm glad this has been delayed, for a bit. I have a lead on a local merchant with Warre's LBV from 95. Hopefully I can get out there in the next day or so.

Like Derek, I have been going crazy... at work (and outside of it too!)

Todd

Mindful that moves are afoot in the eu to outlaw filiament bulbs, I'm on the lookout for a small stock of clear glass bulbs to 'lay down' for the future - but all the ones in the supermarkets seem to the pearl type. If anyone sees clear glass bulbs on sale - please let me know! Tom These should be ...

I agree Luc, but I will need to be fortified AGAINST drinking this

Todd

Alright - even I admit... the bear one was GOOOD!

Todd

Alex, I brought home a single litre bottle of this from the Heathrow Duty-Free shop when returning home from Austria in March. It is my only memory of England, aside from the assinine bus rides between terminals, and perhaps the lovely blond that seemed pleased to let me sample every single Scotch a...

Todd, Are you a computer and port geek? If so, the UK needs you. My company has hundreds of vacancies for good IT people and I have a need for a port friend with a good sense of humour, a sense of rythm, who doesn't have an inferiority complex and who would let me play with his explosives 88) Derek...

• Warre 1985 Mid-red, with a smell of strawberry (not quite ripe strawberry perhaps). Great length, large, though still tight and needs more years. I liked JFH’s word “thorough†. Still needs a few more years then Julian?? Thanks for the tip - perhaps you have saved a life from Death Row. The judge...

Conky wrote:Thanks for that. Another Port name safely stored in the tiny grey cells.

Alan

Until those tiny grey cells are wiped out by more than one glass of port, right Alan???

I'm finding my mind seems more and more muddled as the days (and glasses of port) increase. Co-incidence? (Probably!)

Todd

Certainly sounds like quite the offline gentlemen. I am sad to say that unless one of two events occurs, I will send my regrets.

Those two events being:
1. Win a lottery
2. Get sent somewhere close to St Helens by my job. (Frankly I give the lottery better odds!)

Todd

Alright, that leads me closer... While I have tried Drambuie and don't particularly remember anything spectacular about it, if I happen to see this at a bar I may try it out (without having to commit on purchasing an entire bottle that I may not like.)

Thanks Alan! (Enjoy!)

Todd

How long would you give this particular bottle? I am opening it in anticipation of a new work contract coming to fruition and setting me down the path to financial freedom and independence from the debilitating rigours of a regular 'day job.' Okay, not really. I'm opening it to celebrate me starting...

What is it Alan? Not familiar...

Wow Derek, those are some crazy prices...

$25 USD for a 1½ ounce pour of Warre 1985 VP (that happens to have been sitting open for anywhere between 2 weeks and 4 months.)

My good lord.

Todd

Julian, If you are ever heading around to the western parts of Canada, I have around a dozen and a half OBVs... 2003 though, so we may want to wait for 15-20 years for the tannins to integrate.

Todd

Where do you guys see the list of who is what? I see that I am uh.. Cheap Ruby?!?!? Ugh.

we're safe to go back to a boring Thursday, as long as your given a bit of notice. That still seems best for those who have busy weekends. My understanding, is we are waiting to see if you and RonnieRoots can get a bottle, and word from AHD and possiblty Andy to see if they want to participate, and...

Do we yet have a geographically disparate, hot failover site? What is the SLA for site-disaster recovery? How many mirror sites do we have hosting the forum?? Tell me we are at the very least ACTIVE-PASSIVE clustered man!!!??? :shock: Okay, sorry. Brought work to the forum for a second there... bad ...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Todd, You raise an interesting one. If we are talking of an evening, that becomes the afternoon for you? Are you usually weeked off? So if we did it on Saturday evening for example, it wouldn't be too much hardship for you to start in the afternoon? This is going to take the plann...

Oh god you guys, stop please... you're killing me!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: Yeah that whole Quebecois/Canadian thing is something to behold - wait - You remember the IRA??? We may have had a similar thing in the FLQ (Front du Lieration du Quebec) Should explain why my parents moved us from a very English...

Is that Iron Man enough for you, Todd? It goes without saying that the above injury prevents me from fullfilling my dream of entering the 2012 Olympic Games, unless they have a VP drinking competition :wink: Derek Derek, I have a friend whose new bike is made from Ti - although it sounds like a bit...

I'm having that! As we've conversed for some time now, and Canada is not an easy place to pop over to, I was wondering, any chance of putting a face to the mental image??? http://farm1.static.flickr.com/166/414470167_dc94f9e412_m.jpg As you may recall, the handsome athlete in the middle is me. I do...

Todd Pettinger Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada (definitely NOT a quebecois or French-speaking province!) I started drinking port maybe two years ago, during, oddly enough, a beer tasting (where we tasted some REAL beer, three of which were Stouts from England... which I absolutely fell in love with.)...

admin wrote:If we get BirDungy on here that would be three Canadians... that would trump the Dutch.

So do I make three Canucks then?

Todd

RonnieRoots wrote:I made a couple. Height and Width will probably not be ideal, but I can adjust them any way you like (they're crops from bigger pictures)

ooh ooh... I really like this one!

Todd

Well, I know that the stuff we get here doesn't taste the same as in Dublin, but I always thought that was because we get some sort of 'export' derivate. I think we'll have to test this theory out by holding the aforementioned Guiness offline in Dublin. I'm betting its much better there than where ...