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* Roasted goat’s cheese salad with figs, toasted walnuts and honey
* Grilled gammon steak with free range egg, hand cut chips, spiced pork scratching and pickle gravy
and add black pudding

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DrDirk

Sorry for my late reply

Wild mushrooms on toast

Gammon, egg and chips with black pudding and as side order some creamed spinach

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Wolfgang,

please correct the vintages of Vesuvio to 89, 90, 92.

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I am in. I just put two bottles of vintage port near my baggage for London. The rounded mean value of the vintages will apply with the theme: (1960 + 1991) / 2 = 1975,5 rounded eigthies. Yes! Both bottles come from the same producer: one is an emergency bottle, one a recently aquired bottle of a lot...

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At 18:20 I entered for the first time the Bunghole. Following my nose I easily found the table with all the glasses filled with port. First I could not believe my eye: all ports (exept one) in a perfect condition concering the colour of the ports. This will be fun - and it was great fun. Thank you v...

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Yes please.

DrDirk

This sounds to be a nice tasting to fly to London even if Wolfgang can not provide me with a place to sleep.

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Hi all, I will be in London on Saturday March 24th. Is there anyone who wants to join in tasting, drinking and enjoying some port even if it is a Saturday? I suggest somewhere in the city. @Rob: I think Henley-on-Thames is not possible for me, because it will take some time to get there and back wit...

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A very nice evening in The Crusting Pipe with excellent 1977s vintage ports. It was the perfect time to open some of these bottles to see how far the developement is. Some bottles need more time (e.g. Niepoort, Taylor) and other are now very drinkable and start to fade after some hours in the glass ...

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This sounds really great

. Somebody is really thirsty.

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Hi,

I will be in London on the 3rd of january and would be happy for some port.

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DrDirk

Hi,

this sounds like a fantastic idea to fly to London again for some port tasting in 2012. I would be very happy if I could join this tasting.

Dirk

DrDirk

I will join the tasting

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Nice to drink, but a more simple port.

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I was wondering if his por was past its prime time. Brownish, nose nothing to concentrate on, an unbalanced body and no aftertaste

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a very decent bottle of Grahams 85, easily drunk between all these Malvedos. You need a lot of water to drink this one, but it makes fun.

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This is a port juice: much too young. A fantastic port which needs some more time to develop all its finesse. Very, very good.

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very tanninic, closed, but a very long aftertaste. this port has to be tasted in some years.

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very, very sweet, too sweet for me but ok

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I know this port as a very fantastic fruity deep port which I liked very much. This bottle was just bad.

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sorry this wa a very dull bottle. ther should be better bottles

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really not a great bottle. I have to try it in a real bottle some time.

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I did not know if this port is only in a bad phase or it is as it is: so it was one you will not discuss afterwards

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extremly dense body, long, but at the moment a little bit closed, but I think this will be a very good port in some time.

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the port with the lowest points: it was very disappointing and totally inhomogenous. I do not think, this will be good port in some years.

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alredy closed up, so we have to wait for some years to see how this port will develop

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very dry for a Malvedos, but with a very long aftertaste, very straight but a little bit light in comparison to 2003. I did quite like this port.

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I can not say anthing to this port: it was just a wrong time point to open this and try to judge it.

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this is one of the best young ports I ever tasted: very delicous with its violetts and a very long aftertaste. Hopefully this will be the final blend.

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very nice smell on the cork, promissing. dark red color. +2 h: what is this? no nose, very acidic, but a fantastic body. This one needs a lot of time. +10 h: now it smells like very good port. Very nice fruit in the nose, smells too young for me. Very strong body with a long aftertaste. the fruit is...

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Jacob, thank you very much for the fantastic organisation. For me, this was the first time that we did not have to discuss about smelly glasses or other smell sources in the RAF club. This tasting was just as enjoyable as the line-up was. So the portwines were just gorgeous and could be tasted with ...

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Hello Axel,

just came back from India. I hope you booked a room for me too and only forget to mentioned it like we disussed before my vaccations. Thanks a lot.

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Hi Axel, I am also not drinking any alcohol since the first week of january after heavy consumption of port and other spirits with Wolfgang (WS1), e.g. taking a New Years day walk with a bottle of Croft da Roeda 1980 as provision and so on (We took even port glasses with us :D ). I will be without a...

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Nose: not that exploding

taste: a very nice fruit which comes along with a little acidity, perhaps a little too dry

I had hoped for more from this vintage

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nose: nice matured nose, perfect

taste: strong body with a lot of perfect matured notes on the palatte. Very good aftertaste.

For most people it was the port of the evening, for me it came second after 87.

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taste: closed
taste: harmonic body at the beginning to get drinkable

Do not touch this port in the next 10 years.

DrDirk

Nose: matured
taste: too old, is past its best time, fells apart over the time in the glass

You could taste that this was a very good port.

DrDirk

Nose: light nose
taste: balanced. I noted also, that this should be a good port to go with Stilton.

48 hours later this port showed a little bit strange and light.

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nose: light nose

taste: a nice port to drink, but nothing to remember

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I just wrote: this port is very suitable to make a salad dressing

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Nose: a tight but very pleaseant nose

taste: very spicy, nice length

This port starts to make fun.

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Nose: very nicy fruity nose
Taste: the port starts to develop from the youth to a more matured port and will be very nice in a few years

This will be a port for fun-drinking in about 3 years and on.

DrDirk

a real dream

so concentrated, that a drop last forever in the mouth

DrDirk

Nose: slighty acidic
Taste: not that impressive, more a little bit chemically

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Nose: very fruity with a hint of spice

Taste: very tanninic, very fresh, gets with time more and more soicy notes on the palatte

Aftertaste: extremly long

A very nice port which will develop for a very long time

DrDirk

Nose: egg notes, not very overboarding

Taste: spicy,m closed up

Time will tell, whal will happen with this overextracted port

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Nose: closed for this time

Taste: did not impress me this time. This port is in a phase were it should be left in the cellar. You taste that it could be a great port, but it must wait.

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Nose: very fruity
Taste: a heavy fruity taste.

I would not compare it to the noval 03 because the noval has more wild fruit and the niepoort has a more tanninic fruit

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This port has a very nice colour and a vey deep nose. Taste: tanninic and you can chew it. There a hint of acidity in the taste which helps the fruit to develop in the mouth. The aftertaste is extremly long. After retasting it 48 hours later, the port seemed a little more lighter. I can not say how ...

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Nose: a very thick and smooth smell
Taste: very tasty, not for the long term

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