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Re: Poças, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 19:10 Sun 13 Feb 2022
by forest26
Sorry will have to postpone this - Joao Monteiro is no longer available and he was going to fill some of the gaps.
We could go with what we have but I feel it would be a stronger tasting with Pocas representation
Re: Poças, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 20:06 Sun 13 Feb 2022
by jdaw1
Is there some other purpose to which we could usefully put the date?
Re: Poças, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 13:03 Sat 05 Mar 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
jdaw1 wrote: ↑20:06 Sun 13 Feb 2022
Is there some other purpose to which we could usefully put the date?
How about a Warre vertical? Phil was commenting the other day that we haven’t had a Warre vertical for a while.
Re: Poças, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 13:04 Sat 05 Mar 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
Neil - this is still showing on the schedule of tastings.
Re: Poças, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 17:36 Tue 05 Apr 2022
by jdaw1
We have a B&F booking.
jdaw1 wrote: ↑16:37 Thu 01 Apr 2021Date:
Tuesday 26th April 2022 (reserved on Tue 06 Apr 20
21, and checked by phone on Thu 27 Jan 2022).
Decision needed. Is date to be re-used? Should B&F be cancelled?
Re: Poças, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 08:17 Wed 06 Apr 2022
by forest26
BF should be cancelled - Joao Monteiro left Pocas earlier this year and we were dependent on him for a few of the VP's
Re: Poças, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 10:57 Wed 06 Apr 2022
by jdaw1
I’m declaring a substitute ‘emergency’ to be held at the B&F on Tue 26th April 2022. Theme: bring Port. I’m in, and bringing a magnum.
Confirmed attendees have until 21:00 on Thu 7th April to join the emergency, after which it will be opened to all comers.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 11:22 Wed 06 Apr 2022
by rich_n
I'm going to pass on the emergency this time. Enjoy!
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 12:56 Wed 06 Apr 2022
by nac
Confirmed.
Re: Poças, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 12:59 Wed 06 Apr 2022
by nac
Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑13:04 Sat 05 Mar 2022
Neil - this is still showing on the schedule of tastings.
Updated.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 14:14 Wed 06 Apr 2022
by PhilW
Date looking unlikely for me.
Last minute attendance may be possible, but please assume for now that I won't be there.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 16:16 Wed 06 Apr 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
I’m unlikely. Rather too many tastings and dinners at the moment for domestic bliss…
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 08:57 Thu 07 Apr 2022
by uncle tom
Confirmed
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 09:14 Thu 07 Apr 2022
by idj123
Works for me.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 17:00 Thu 07 Apr 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑16:16 Wed 06 Apr 2022
I’m unlikely. Rather too many tastings and dinners at the moment for domestic bliss…
It seems I have to be in London for a 9am meeting on 27th April. This makes it much more likely that I will be able to attend. Please change my status to “probably”.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 17:45 Thu 07 Apr 2022
by winesecretary
GEAG and OJW both up for this.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 17:46 Thu 07 Apr 2022
by winesecretary
I see I am now a 'Martinez 1985'. By coincidence I have a case of it arriving tomorrow. Hurrah!
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 19:49 Thu 07 Apr 2022
by Glenn E.
winesecretary wrote: ↑17:46 Thu 07 Apr 2022
I see I am now a 'Martinez 1985'. By coincidence I have a case of it arriving tomorrow. Hurrah!
Wait. Is that how it is supposed to work?
Where is my case of Dalva Golden White 1952?!?
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 20:45 Thu 07 Apr 2022
by jdaw1
Ooh, this is good for me.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 21:30 Thu 07 Apr 2022
by PhilW
Glenn E. wrote:winesecretary wrote: ↑17:46 Thu 07 Apr 2022
I see I am now a 'Martinez 1985'. By coincidence I have a case of it arriving tomorrow. Hurrah!
Wait. Is that how it is supposed to work?
Where is my case of Dalva Golden White 1952?!?
No, it defines what you have to bring to share with others at the next informal.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 10:17 Fri 08 Apr 2022
by Justin K
PhilW wrote: ↑21:30 Thu 07 Apr 2022
Glenn E. wrote:winesecretary wrote: ↑17:46 Thu 07 Apr 2022
I see I am now a 'Martinez 1985'. By coincidence I have a case of it arriving tomorrow. Hurrah!
Wait. Is that how it is supposed to work?
Where is my case of Dalva Golden White 1952?!?
No, it defines what you have to bring to share with others at the next informal.
jdaw1 wrote: ↑20:45 Thu 07 Apr 2022
Ooh, this is good for me.
Yup I think I have a couple of bottles of Taylor's L.B.V. only posting from now on when it is crucial
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 16:58 Fri 08 Apr 2022
by flash_uk
Reconfirming. Thx.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 19:30 Fri 08 Apr 2022
by jdaw1
First post believed to be correctly updated. Pls verify.
Blind or sighted? Or semi-sighted: bringer to reveal type, and either shipper or year, but not both?
I vote semi.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 21:13 Fri 08 Apr 2022
by winesecretary
I vote semi. I've never done a semi-tasting.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 21:30 Fri 08 Apr 2022
by nac
Yup. Semi sounds interesting.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 16:52 Sat 09 Apr 2022
by uncle tom
Theme: bring Port. I’m in, and bringing a magnum.
I shall bring a bottle. The only clue is that it will be from the birth year of someone else present.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 22:24 Sat 09 Apr 2022
by jdaw1
We are three-to-nil on semi-sighted. Decision: semi-sighted. Each to reveal category; size; exactly-one-of-shipper-or-year-or-age. And to reveal same by 21:00 on Sunday 24th April.
JDAW reveals: Vintage Port; magnum; 1970.
uncle tom wrote: ↑16:52 Sat 09 Apr 2022I shall bring a bottle. The only clue is that it will be from the birth year of someone else present.
No: not theme. Reveal year or shipper.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 06:18 Sun 10 Apr 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑17:00 Thu 07 Apr 2022
Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑16:16 Wed 06 Apr 2022
I’m unlikely. Rather too many tastings and dinners at the moment for domestic bliss…
It seems I have to be in London for a 9am meeting on 27th April. This makes it much more likely that I will be able to attend. Please change my status to “probably”.
Now definite.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 06:26 Sun 10 Apr 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
The theme for this tasting has given me a thought for a future tasting. The future theme is for a sighted tasting where participants reveal type, shipper and vintage of what they bring but lie about one of these “facts”. Drinkers have to identify which is the untruth.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 07:45 Sun 10 Apr 2022
by winesecretary
OJW: Vintage Port, 1980
GEAG: Vintage Port, 1989
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 19:12 Sun 10 Apr 2022
by nac
Probably Vintage Port, 1970.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 21:06 Sun 10 Apr 2022
by winesecretary
The 'Probably' adds just that extra frisson of pleasurable uncertainty...
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 11:05 Mon 11 Apr 2022
by uncle tom
No: not theme. Reveal year or shipper.
OK - I'll go for plan B
Probably Vintage Port, 1970.
The 'Probably' adds just that extra frisson of pleasurable uncertainty...
Then I'll
probably bring a Noval, and
probably a Noval vintage I've not drunk for eight years now, despite having twelve bottles in the cellar.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 17:15 Mon 11 Apr 2022
by idj123
And I will‘probably’ bring a Warre.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 19:42 Mon 11 Apr 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
Can we presume that unless otherwise stated, the Port people are bringing is in bottle and is Vintage Port?
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 23:30 Mon 11 Apr 2022
by jdaw1
Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑19:42 Mon 11 Apr 2022Can we presume that unless otherwise stated, the Port people are bringing is in bottle and is Vintage Port?
You may presume anything you like.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 15:09 Wed 13 Apr 2022
by Doggett
Not one I can make. I hope that some lovely bottles are enjoyed.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 16:08 Wed 13 Apr 2022
by Alex M
Tentative yes.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 18:31 Tue 19 Apr 2022
by Alex M
Probably Vintage Port, 1983.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 19:41 Tue 19 Apr 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
Probably unknown shipper, believed Vintage Port
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 09:26 Thu 21 Apr 2022
by jdaw1
We need a food order. Pls post.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 10:26 Thu 21 Apr 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
No starter.
Standard sirloin steak, medium rare, with skinny chips and a side of green beans and shallots.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 11:35 Thu 21 Apr 2022
by winesecretary
Avocado, butterbean mash, bruschetta with mushrooms, tamarind tomatoes
Grilled chicken Caesar salad with avocado, soft boiled egg, tomato, side order of fries
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 12:05 Thu 21 Apr 2022
by OJW
Duck liver pate
Large Kentish bangers and mash.
Thanks!
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 13:22 Thu 21 Apr 2022
by nac
Starter - truffle mac & cheese
Main - large bangers & mash
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 17:01 Thu 21 Apr 2022
by Alex M
Starter - truffle mac & cheese.
Main- Standard sirloin steak, medium rare, with skinny chips and a side of green beans and shallots.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 20:18 Thu 21 Apr 2022
by jdaw1
Food order started.
Current version of
the placemats; images in first post.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 22:21 Thu 21 Apr 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑10:26 Thu 21 Apr 2022
No starter.
Standard sirloin steak, medium rare, with skinny chips and a side of green beans and shallots.
For inclusion on the draft food order.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 00:11 Fri 22 Apr 2022
by nac
I shall now commit to “70 VP”.
Re: Emergency, Tue 26 April 2022
Posted: 11:15 Fri 22 Apr 2022
by flash_uk
Food Order for me:
Avocado, butterbean mash, bruschetta with mushrooms, tamarind tomatoes
Sirlion, rare, +fried egg, no sauce | Fries | Green beans and shallots
Thanks!