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DRT wrote:

JacobH wrote:

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:Are there enough glasses?

The number of glasses is being checked, but the RAF Club coped with the 35 bottle 1970 tasting so this should be possible.

The last request for glasses (made by me via Axel to the RAF Club was) 14 × 24 = 336 glasses, so am I right in thinking we need another 56?

Yes, but the decanting team will waste some so best to ask for 400

JacobH wrote:

DRT wrote:

JacobH wrote:

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:Are there enough glasses?

The number of glasses is being checked, but the RAF Club coped with the 35 bottle 1970 tasting so this should be possible.

The last request for glasses (made by me via Axel to the RAF Club was) 14 × 24 = 336 glasses, so am I right in thinking we need another 56?

Yes, but the decanting team will waste some so best to ask for 400

That would only give you 8 spare...How many are you planning on breaking?

DRT wrote:

JacobH wrote:

DRT wrote:

JacobH wrote:

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:Are there enough glasses?

The number of glasses is being checked, but the RAF Club coped with the 35 bottle 1970 tasting so this should be possible.

The last request for glasses (made by me via Axel to the RAF Club was) 14 × 24 = 336 glasses, so am I right in thinking we need another 56?

Yes, but the decanting team will waste some so best to ask for 400

That would only give you 8 spare...How many are you planning on breaking?

I wasn't thinking of breakages. When I said "waste some" I meant "use some for quality assurance purposes"

• Don’t ask.

DRT wrote:

JacobH wrote:

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:Are there enough glasses?

The number of glasses is being checked, but the RAF Club coped with the 35 bottle 1970 tasting so this should be possible.

The last request for glasses (made by me via Axel to the RAF Club was) 14 × 24 = 336 glasses, so am I right in thinking we need another 56?

Yes, but the decanting team will waste some so best to ask for 400

Roy Hersh wrote:I wish you all a wonderful tasting, filled with perfect bottlings that all show beautifully!

Roy Hersh wrote:

Sorry, I disagree on having the older ports after dinner. Palate fatigue is a certainty at this event and I would rather be tasting young wines when that happens than 50 year old gems that I may never taste again.

I have no horse in the race, but believe Derek's way is right on. I also prefer older ones first but rarely see it done that way, as often time people like to end with the great oldies. But, I think the tannins of young VPs affect how the old ones show, if done later on. With a meal in between it is not as much an issue, but I'd rather be sharpest for the oldies and make sure my notes were crisp, while the young ones are very likely to be had again another day.

Roy Hersh wrote:I wish you all a wonderful tasting, filled with perfect bottlings that all show beautifully!

• Change of mind: ‘old’ session not paged by decade.

jdaw1 wrote:Please, whoever is printing the placemats (presumably today), don’t forget to set ‟No automatic page scaling”, or equivalently to set the scaling to 100%.

• Chris Doty ✠˜.

jdaw1 wrote:Please, whoever is printing the placemats (presumably today), don’t forget to set ‟No automatic page scaling”, or equivalently to set the scaling to 100%.

• Giles Wigoder ✠”;
• Still awaiting news on the Graham’s Malvedos 1999.

uncle tom wrote:
..Jacob, you're doing a fantastic job pulling all this together

Tom

uncle tom wrote:This has got to be the longest thread for a tasting session by miles..

• Wednesday October 8, 2008 at 218 posts;
• Deeper Underground at 249 posts;
• F-Plan at 283 posts.

jdaw1 wrote:

uncle tom wrote:This has got to be the longest thread for a tasting session by miles..

Including this post, we’re at 218 posts.

• Wednesday October 8, 2008 at 218 posts;
• Deeper Underground at 249 posts;
• F-Plan at 283 posts.

Chris Doty wrote:Hi guys --

I will arrange for my admin to bring the 99 to the lobby of my office so that cookie can pick it up as scheduled on Monday morning.

As for the placemats, as I am in currently in NYC, I am afraid I am no longer able to print them and bring them to the tasting.

Sorry to have to miss out on this -- looks sensational

JacobH wrote:On a boring financial side, please remember to bring the necessary cash to the tasting if you still owe some (I currently have down Alex, Christopher and Andy and small sums from Chris and Derek) so I can transfer it over to those who I think should be receiving some (currently the RAF Club, Axel and Uncle Tom), without it becoming a horrible confused mess...

If any of this comes as a surprise please let me know by PM or email!

DRT wrote:What AHB said.

• Two copies of the pre-pour sheets, in case glasses poured one place and then transferred to another. The two copies are slightly different.

Axel P wrote:First time that I booked BA and now the cancelled my flight. That demands some serious re-booking and a bottle of Delaforce 1994 to ease the stress a bit.

Axel

• Organisation thread;
• Placemats;
• 1955 Graham;
• 1957 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1958 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1962 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1964 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1965 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1966 Graham;
• 1968 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1970 Graham;
• 1976 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1978 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1979 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1982 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1984 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1985 Graham;
• 1986 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1987 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1988 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1990 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1992 Graham's Malvedos half bottle #1 and; half bottle #2;
• 1995 Graham's Malvedos half bottle #1 and; half bottle #2;
• 1996 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1998 Graham's Malvedos;
• 1999 Graham's Malvedos;
• 2001 Graham's Malvedos;
• 2004 Graham's Malvedos;
• 2006 Graham's Malvedos;
• 2008 Cask Sample (work in progress)*;
• Review of the evening as a whole.

DRT wrote:Whilst creating the tasting note threads and links I couldn't help feeling slightly sympathetic towards the Malvedos 1968

[url=http://theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=34083#p34083]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Updated date and alphabetical indexes such they include the threads from the Malvedos tasting.

• Change in the variation between the two copies of the pre-pour sheets. (New feature: still being developed.)

DRT wrote:Whilst creating the tasting note threads and links I couldn't help feeling slightly sympathetic towards the Malvedos 1968:

The links:

• Organisation thread;
• Placemats;
  ...
• 1979 Graham’s Malvedos;

Axel P wrote:22nd is booked. I just got the 79 halves for 50 EUR total and will save it.

AHB wrote:Could you make sure you bring a list of who owes what, since I won't remember how much I owe you.

WS1 wrote:thanks a lot, DrDirk and I will be there.

• DRT, by email, wrote:Graham 03 could not be left on the shelf at F&M.

jdaw1 wrote:Updated current draft of the placemats, now 223 sheets and 1,325,310 bytes:

• DRT, by email, wrote:Graham 03 could not be left on the shelf at F&M.

When printing the placemats don’t forget to set ‟No automatic page scaling”, or equivalently to set the scaling to 100%.

JacobH wrote:Too late, I am afraid, by c.48 minutes...

JacobH wrote:Incidentally, if anyone sees DRT, make sure to restrain him before he adds a full vertical of Graham's to the line-up...

JacobH wrote:Incidentally, if anyone sees DRT, make sure to restrain him before he adds a full vertical of Graham's to the line-up...