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Curious the way Taylor produce a sterling VP, but are firmly in the second division for all their other efforts..

The ten year tawny will probably be lot better after another decade in the bottle - if you can spare the cellar space!

Tom

and who would let me play with his explosives You can play for free - Saturday mornings in October, when I train all-comers in the gentle art of painting the sky! (the training sesions always end with a bang.. :D ) ~~~ I don't have a clear benchmark for '85 decanting times - so far they seem a litt...

Mayson's book is undoubtably the best, but be sure to get the second edition - I do hope he continues to publish further editions.

Tom

Many of my bookmarked sites have little icons against their name on the list instead of the ie logo - for example the vintage port site has a nice little bunch of grapes.

How about a nice little barrel for this site??

Tom

Either the Niepoort or the barrels are good by me...

Tom

Alex's answer certainly shows the accountant in him to perfection :D I thought that the stock control for vintage port was very strict - that when declaring a vintage, the quantity made and the amount sold each year was carefully recorded by the IVDP, and that re-badging was strictly off-limits.. .....

Quarles Harris has been a flag of conveniance for the Sym's for some time - it does not appear to have a consistant house style, and has been unashamedly on the bottom rung of their range of blends. This makes it an ideal house to supply the likes of Tesco. Now, if the Sym's wanted to raise QH's sta...

A great beer indeed - until you sample Woodforde's Wherry...

Tom

PS Just come back from a short cricket tour to Brighton. Lager peasants aside, all the serious drinkers agreed that Hophead - made by whom I am not sure - was a superb drop..

Julian,

Re. your two posts..

I have - this week! - bought a case of Offley '80..

I'm sure I could spare a bottle, and have a nice stash of 63's as well!

Tom

Ronnie, That's an interesting link, although a bit heavy going for me as it's clearly a translation... - from Dutch?? Although it's possible to pick odd holes in the accuracy, these seem to be accidents of translation rather than factual errors - so a well researched piece. I do think it would be go...

Certainly that M91 is well up with the big boys for the year - which is why I bought so much! But across the spectrum of vintages, there is a useful 'aide memoire' : "Offley Boa Vista is offley good value" In style it is not unlike Vargellas - full and fragrant. - but the wine is not well ...

known for some reason as BOB's BOB = Buyer's Own Brand Usually the original shipper's name is included deep in the small print, but I notice that Tesco 'own brand' vintage port (from 1994) is now merely credited to the Symingtons. You would have thought that with eight - going on ten - names under ...

Derek,

Given that only a tiny fraction of Vesuvio's production gets bottled as QdoV, they are not exactly short of supply.

I'll wager that the cost of making the case and it's trappings is a lot more than the cost of producing two extra bottles!

Tom

Derek,

The most recent hammer falls have been in the low £300's - retail price is around £40/bottle

Tom

Give us £10 off the price of a case

Better still, give us a case of 8 for the same money - packed in high class brown corrugated cardboard of course..

Tom

OK - I Googled it - sad, I know... This is the result... High on a hill was a lonely goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo Folks in a town that was quite remote heard Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo Lusty and clear from the go...

No, its:

Yodell odel, yodell odel, yodell odel hey he..

I think..?

Tom

Taylor did declare '75 - but along with Graham (and closely followed by Croft) it is a wine that bucks the negative reputation of the '75 vintage - not a superstar, but declaration-worthy.. ~~~ Another day and this wine keeps getting better - much better - but who would normally wait this long? Anyo...

When you've finished, I still have plenty more in stock ..

Tom

Broadband - or broad smile??

Why is this sort of thing so uniquely American... - work out a plan for something the media will like, but don't think about the possible consequences..

..now where have we seen this before - but on a bigger scale??

- Did 'yo Blair' pick the grapes??

Tom

Dunno how to put pictures in a post, so check this avatar (until I restore Beaker!)

Tom

..Roughly two bottles in three are VP...

Tom

Can I be nosey? If I was to drink a Taylors 83, or similar bottle, I would need an occasion. Doesn't have to be much, a friend visiting, a birthday,etc,etc. I get the feeling your lucky enough to have the cellar and the inclination to just 'Open a bottle'. Is that true or do you attach it to a reas...

the stainless steel filter does leave some sediment in the decanter If the sediment is fine and the wine dark, it's hard to avoid a little getting into the decanter. While the last glass may end up being a tad cloudy - it's often the best one out of the decanter - a little wispy sediment does not s...

Every case of Vesuvio comes complete with a nice pottery bin label, neatly packed in it's own little black and white box.. ..but how many people use bins for storing their bottles these days?? I have a stack of those little boxes in my cellar, and while I'm loathe to throw them away, I haven't a clu...