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Nice FB page.

Though you may have to up your port consumption if you want to retain that claim now that I am on island!!

Vintageport.se is fantastic Richard Mayson's site has some good TNs from interesting tastings (both private and trade) I think DRT still maintains an archive of infoportwine.com - a great port website that was run by Herman Gerdingh, a Dutch port enthusiast, until illness a few years ago For wine, I...

Boot and Flogger, 4.30pm

AHB and I will be there, at least

Hadn't got round to thinking about that....

Would be happy to ring ahead and get El vino to decant something.

Not sure where would allow us to bring our own bottle without eating

AHB wrote:
Anyone else want to join us tonight?

I could meet for an early drink at 5.30....I have a couple of good candidate bottles. I have a separate dinner at 7.00 prompt on Grey's Inn Road so would need to depart in time to get there

Have sent a message to your gmail re Friday.

I am booked tonight / tomorrow, though could conceivably meet for an earlŷ glass or two somewhere....

jdaw1 wrote:D70. Nearly-mature red, 50% opaque. Full and big, but quite dry. Actually, too dry. The size pushed me to 1970, the dryness to Dow, and—snugness!—that is what it was. Actually the taste was drier than Dow 1970.

Snugness?

Surprised no one has mentioned Zalto yet, which are fantastic across the range and an experience in themselves. For port, I prefer the general "white wine" glass to the sweet / fortified-specific glass. My favourite, no doubt. The Riedel Sommelier port are also fantastic, and the vinum por...

Taylor Vargellas, if you can find / afford it, is far and away the best I've had from 1991 (and one of the best I've had from the entire decade) In terms of a value for money port that is drinking nicely now / medium term, I think de la Rosa is a very nice 91. I saw Seckfords had some recently at £2...

We do make some Port for vegans and some that are for vegetarians. Much of the Marks and Spencer is for vegetarian in that they use egg albumem rather than pig gelatin. At the moment the M&S port range only has vintage, Late Bottled vintage and Pink for vegans. For Taylor, Fonseca and Croft all...

The problem from the perspective of a strict vegan (and in some cases a strict vegetarian) is that the fining process often involves the use of fish bladder / egg white / cattle connective tissue. And often even ports labelled as "unfiltered" will still undergo light fining. But I'm not aw...

My bottle will be a Cockburn 1963, which WS1 will kindly decant and bring to the tasting.

- beetroot salad starter - sirloin rare for main I hope to be on time but may be 30 mins late (flight arrives at Heathrow 16.30). In terms of port, I need to speak to Wolfgang to see whether i have any nice bottles lurking in his cellar (and whether he would be willing to open / decant / bring for m...

DRT wrote:The Symingtons regularly re-cork older vintages before releasing. That is what you had.

plus they seem to have a method of re-polishing the bottles to make them look pristine.

i'll bring something appropriate to be advised!

do you mind if i have a week to work it out? supplies in my flat are low so it will require a trip to Big Yellow

The stars have aligned and I'm in the country on this date.

Please may I be added to the list or the appropriate place in the queue for the list?

Yikes

Let's hope that the Noval Nacional 11 was not on Level B!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... pagne.html

jdaw1 wrote:I recall my Argentine boss’s boss saying that “England having a good week — Olympics, and this ash thing”.

Not an entirely sensitive / appropriate comment given what else happened that week....!

Here's another recent "old stock" release by TFP which may be of interest to some on this board... The old stencilled bottle has been tarted up with a new front / back label which gives it a slightly strange look (in my opinion), but there seems to be a nice wooden presentation box Krohn 1...

To less fanfare than the 1964 last year, the Taylor 1965 single harvest port seems to have been released and available in shops. Given that it is a year of significance for a particular group of my friends who are Singaporean, I have purchased quite heavily (but I won't know until August how it tast...

If we are to have an event about Her Majesty , ought we to seek permission? I feel that a request should be sent to the Private Secretary to The Queen , but I’m not sure what to say. Please send me suggestions. I had understood the official position of the Palace is that this date was not a date to...

Its an issue/problem I think the Symingtons have negotiated before, with the pre-Symington Malvedos originally being labelled as "crusted"

I tried to look at the breakdown for other Symington VP's and most don't list them. :( ) The Vintage Port Site seemed to me to be pretty good for this - i certainly thought there was enough detail to infer that the stated BBR blend did not fit the profile of any of the main brands. Quarles Harris i...

So it would appear not to be the same as the Graham blend then, or (from a very brief look) as any of the other blends they have released under brand.

BBR have released their own selection 2011 at £168IB per half dozen. 276 x 6-packs available.

I didn't see this at the time of the other 2011 releases, but perhaps I overlooked it.

http://www.bbr.com/products-20122-2011- ... ntage-port