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How was the VCC btw? And how did GPL compare to PC? 2004 is a vintage which increasingly interests me in Bordeaux (from a QPR / availability / drinkability perspective). Have not had much, but enjoyed Haut Bailly and Leoville Barton from this vintage over the last 12 months (both of which were relat...

Curse of the rubber capsule....

Somewhere on here there's a thread with recommendations about how to open these without cutting yourself / agitating the wine. I need to re-find that!

To celebrate my 43rd birthday, I opened up two bottles of Croft 1966 (consumed consecutive nights after birthday dinner had to be rescheduled last minute). Link to TN for other bottle This was a fantastic English bottling with no label, paint marks and the dreaded (but seemingly effective) rubber ca...

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To celebrate my 43rd birthday, I opened up my penultimate BBR-bottled 1966 Croft (from same small lot as this bottle consumed in 2011, purchased directly from BBR). For comparison, a different English-bottled Croft 66 was consumed the following night - link to TN. Uncorked @8am, decanted @ 2pm, re-b...

I will potentially be in the country by then - please could i reserve a spot for a couple of weeks while i confirm dates? I think i would need to adopt - i have very little 2000 and none easily accessible other than a Sandeman Vau in double magnum and a lone remaining bottle of Fonseca unfiltered LBV…

I will also try to join, please

My understanding was that this only applied to home deliveries (i.e. does not apply to delivery to other professional storage locations like LCB).

What a super thread - many thanks David

First half of bottle drunk between 07 November and 11 November 2024. Broadly consistent with three other bottles consumed over the last 4 years (albeit I do think a few years in bottle has been of benefit when compared to my first tasting of the 2020 bottling in June 2020). Typically I have found it...

Thanks - 67 Pall Mall looks great and I'd certainly try to be a member & store some current drinking with them if I lived in/around London. Their rack rates for cases (I believe GBP 30 per year) probably still works out better than Big Yellow following recent price rises, but I think I've now fo...

Thanks! F&R were quite unenthusiastic and made it sound very difficult when i enquired about mix bottle storage back in c.2016, but perhaps times have changed. Will get back in contact.

Awesome - thank you.

vingrotto was very easy for US delivery (which works for me), though was somewhat surprised to see that the durand was one of the cheaper corkscrews on their list! (And indeed was very nearly sidetracked by the fossil woolly mammoth tusk waiter’s friend).

Tasted here Panic-opened and double decanted at 2.30pm (for 6.30pm tasting) when S63 looked underweight. Had been stood for a week but could probably have used more of a decant. Cork soaked through and not as tight as it should have been. Big minty herbaceous nose, rich sweet Xmas cake fruits, a tou...

Tasted here From JDAW's cellars, Oporto bottled (are all SW70?), modern-ish selo (suggesting not shipped in 70s when it would presumably have been the larger IVP style) Uncorked evening prior and double decanted morning of (for 6.30pm tasting). Stunning nose that screams fabulous mature port - wonde...

Tasted here Lovely condition BBR bottling, uncorked at c.8.00am and double decanted at c.2.30pm for 6.30pm tasting. Attractively medicinal but sweet nose, a mixture of cranberry dryness and orange peel bitterness on the palate, reasonably rich with hint of pepper. Distinguished mature port that I wa...

Not sure if a tasting-for-two deserves its own review thread, but many thanks to Julian for providing great company at my first TPF event since 2015 (assuming it counts as a TPF tasting by virtue of being posted....). A fine selection of ports were tasted: 1963 Sandeman (BBR bottled) 1970 Smith Wood...

Don’t know if this remains a mystery or was ever resolved, but the filtered Warre 2006 LBV was definitely sold in UK supermarkets for a while back in 2011 / 12.

Any chance these are still available Phil? Or a one off?

I am still using Big Yellow Fulham for storage of my odd bottles (my 6-packs / 12-packs remain with Seckfords / BBR / Justerinis etc.) I have two half height lockers there (c.500 bottles), which with price rises over the years has become more expensive than optimal to maintain, particularly when I a...

Malvedos also gone

Sandeman Vau spoken for

Quite a lot of new additions on BBR. Not cheap but not expensive either. Croft 1960 and Noval 1960 for £165. They have had some fantastic stuff recently, and at less of a premium than I'd usually associate with them. As I was mulling over some BBR-bottled & never-left-BBR-cellars Taylor 66 bott...

A couple more bits of old footage I had saved on YouTube: 1960s Douro Valley Wine Transportation - a short 1m33s colour film on the evolving methods for transportation of pipes down to Porto Port Wine old methods of transport - a 5m silent black and white film (date unknown) with some particularly d...

I have some half bottles at Seckfords that probably should not wait any longer to be drunk (and I will not get round to drinking). As these were originally purchased direct from producer via offers coordinated by members of this forum, I'd be delighted to pass them on for approximate cost (inc a bit...