VE (etc) Day Tasting - Weds 8 Sept 2021
Re: VE (etc) Day Tasting - Weds 8 Sept 2021
are we bring emtpy bottles (if they have a label or not) and corks?
- Alex Bridgeman
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Re: VE (etc) Day Tasting - Weds 8 Sept 2021
I’m bringing my bottle, my cork remnants and the carefully cut off capsule top.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
Re: VE (etc) Day Tasting - Weds 8 Sept 2021
S45 Just decanted | 12:45 | bottle top shoulder. Good col our nothing untoward at this stage. Fingers crossed !
Will decant back into bottle - have cork !
Will decant back into bottle - have cork !
Re: VE (etc) Day Tasting - Weds 8 Sept 2021
I will do the same.Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑12:43 Wed 08 Sep 2021 I’m bringing my bottle, my cork remnants and the carefully cut off capsule top.
Re: VE (etc) Day Tasting - Weds 8 Sept 2021
Needed to sort out bottles slightly earlier than planned, so all decanted and back into bottles and vac-u-vined between 1300 and 1400.
All met QA standards and no issues apart from mildly challenging corks.
Sandeman 42 mid-shoulder, no obvious seepage but cork a bit loose under damaged wax
Ferreira 45 (well) into neck, some seepage under the foil capsule
Mackenzie 48 upper-mid shoulder, no seepage under wax
Tuke Holdsworth 47 very top shoulder, no seepage under wax
All met QA standards and no issues apart from mildly challenging corks.
Sandeman 42 mid-shoulder, no obvious seepage but cork a bit loose under damaged wax
Ferreira 45 (well) into neck, some seepage under the foil capsule
Mackenzie 48 upper-mid shoulder, no seepage under wax
Tuke Holdsworth 47 very top shoulder, no seepage under wax
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Re: VE (etc) Day Tasting - Weds 8 Sept 2021
I have had a very 'exciting' week and will arrive, once my car gets here, with Dow 50 (level mid-shoulder) as yet unopened I am afraid (although I am also bringing my Durand). Please could you arrange for a decanter to be available? I am sorry to be making life difficult but work has been all-enveloping.
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Re: VE (etc) Day Tasting - Weds 8 Sept 2021
I am now going to be late, although, not very I hope. I am so sorry.
Re: VE (etc) Day Tasting - Weds 8 Sept 2021
Links:
- Review of event as a whole;
- 20Y Ramos Pinto, bot. 1968;
- 1942 Fonseca Guimaraens;
- 1942 Sandeman;
- 1945 Sandeman;
- 1945 Ferreira;
- 1945 Martinez;
- 1945 Taylor;
- 1947 Tuke Holdsworth;
- 1948 Mackenzie;
- 1948 Taylor;
- 1950 Dow;
- 1940 Diez;
- Planning and arrangements;
- Placemats (in list of placemats);
- Placemat software issue 154, Boustrophedon flag in PackingStyles;
- Placemat software issue 155, Printer test, following failure of default value of TastingNotesColumnStrokeCode.