Mon 29 Dec 2025: Emergency (zombie invasion)

[jdaw1]

This post reserved to hold agreed plans.

When: 18:00 on Mon 29 Dec 2025.

Location: Boot & Flogger. As yet, no booking has been made.

Theme:

‘Vintage Port that you would like to drink if you had not Vintage Port for 7 months’.

Under such terrible circumstances, would one want sighted or blind?

Sighted please.

People:

1. Julian W. (Warre 1970);
2. Martin C.;
3. Alex M. (Croft 1960);
4. Mike M.;
5. Cliff M. (three sighted Ports, mag Champagne, mag Claret, extras);
6. Rory M.;
7. Viktoria M.;
8. Alex B.;
9. Ian J.;
10. Neil C.

Bottles:

Reserves:

Current draft of the placemats.

[jdaw1]

Because of the forthcoming zombie invasion (it might be that; might be something worse), the government has declared an emergency, for Monday 29th December 2025.

You know what to do.

[mcoulson]

I'm up for fighting any kind of zombie invasion but I hope it happens on the 29th .....

[Mike J. W.]

If it's a zombie invasion, shouldn't this be held at the Winchester?

[winesecretary]

I regret that I will be in the countryside, eliminating crusty jugglers.

[Mike J. W.]

I regret that I will be in the countryside, eliminating crusty jugglers.

Well at least that's for the greater good.

[NigelM]

I regret that I will be in London, at another gathering, slaying Klingons.

[Alex M]

Yes please.

[jdaw1]

So far we are three. What theme?

[mcoulson]

So far we are three. What theme?

Port that we like ....

[Alex Bridgeman]

29th December is a bank holiday. Will that affect the ability to organise or attend an emergency?

[winesecretary]

I’d quite like to organise a ‘port that we don’t like’ tasting at some point - sort of ‘bring a bottle of a port that you just don’t get on with - and explain why’. I suspect most of us have a few bottles like that.

[jdaw1]

Do the three us of us want one of these sets of four bottles:

I have two boxes of Quevedo’s 2014 closure comparison that need to be opened, and the contents compared.

[Alex M]

May I propose the following theme?

‘Vintage Port that you would like to drink if you had not Vintage Port for 7 months’.

[flash_uk]

I think I should perhaps attend. I have a bottle in mind.

[mcoulson]

May I propose the following theme?

‘Vintage Port that you would like to drink if you had not Vintage Port for 7 months’.

Lordy ... 7 months ... Humm ... Let me think about that ...

[PhilW]

May I propose the following theme?

‘Vintage Port that you would like to drink if you had not Vintage Port for 7 months’.

I'm not sure that we've had a Nebuchadnezzar tasting before.

[Mike J. W.]

May I propose the following theme?

‘Vintage Port that you would like to drink if you had not Vintage Port for 7 months’.

I'm not sure that we've had a Nebuchadnezzar tasting before.

Add another 2 regular attendees and you all should be able to polish of that Nebuchadnezzar quite easily.

[PhilW]

I’d quite like to organise a ‘port that we don’t like’ tasting at some point - sort of ‘bring a bottle of a port that you just don’t get on with - and explain why’. I suspect most of us have a few bottles like that.

Hmm. Cruz '89. Because you'd have to have not had Vintage port for 7 months to be desperate enough to drink it?

[Glenn E.]

As I have often said (paraphrasing) when accused of score creep, why would I want to drink Cruz '89?

I know that Ports that I would score in the 80s exist, but I choose not to drink them. I'm not a professional critic, so I have no reason to drink anything that doesn't have the potential to rate in the 90s.

[jdaw1]

‘Vintage Port that you would like to drink if you had not Vintage Port for 7 months’.

Under such terrible circumstances, would one want sighted or blind?

[Alex M]

Sighted please.

[mcoulson]

I agree sighted ....

[jdaw1]

We are four people: AJM, JDAW, MSC, MJM.

To slate your thirst, noble but gnawing, how many bottles each should we bring?

[jdaw1]

There is now a draft of the placemats; pictures in the first post (but I don’t know who is bringing which bottles).

[Alex M]

We are four people: AJM, JDAW, MSC, MJM.

To slate your thirst, noble but gnawing, how many bottles each should we bring?

I think once each will suffice

[cem]

We are seven! Our power grows...

Four resolute chaps with some hardy bottles of port is a good start against a zombie invasion. I shall delay my flight by a day and join this noble fight. I will be bringing reinforcements in the form of one of my brothers, Rory and his Swedish lady, Viktoria who loves port!

We'll bring 3 sighted ports and some unsighted ports.

Obviously, since it's Christmas, we'll need champagne and some claret to add to the festivities - probably need a mag of each to stave those zombie heads in.

[winesecretary]

What could possibly go wrong?

[mcoulson]

What could possibly go wrong?

I have a list ... And it's rather long ......

[Alex Bridgeman]

Put me down too. I’ll bring something, but I’ll decide nearer the time. I don’t have a Nebuchadnezzar, but I do have a double mag of Sandeman Vau - that might be big enough to slate the thirst of someone who hasn’t drunk Port for 7 months.

[idj123]

I’m a tentative for this (the following evening is definitely out as it’s my daughter‘s birthday).

[Bertie3000]

Hi could I be added to this please. Will find something suitable to bring.

[nac]

29th - assume a "yes" from me.

[jdaw1]

We are ten people: this is looking good. The Red Room has been booked.

He whose deficit we are remedying has commanded sighted. Please reveal. Monday four days ago a fabulous Warre 1970 was opened: I will bring W70.

Entertainingly, one possible attendee — not available — whose attention was drawn to this thread thought that the draft of the placemats was actually genuine, and was thereby very impressed. Alas not.

[Alex M]

Croft 1960