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What a wonderfull evening

No more working, Easter.....

Drinking Qta. do Portal single q Vintage 2005, this is life


What about you ???? Any port plans for the easter

I have some Vesuvio 2005 to finish off, thick and purple and full of fruit - surprisingly easy to drink at the moment.

Once that's gone, I'm not too sure. Maybe another Royal Oporto '63 as it's starting to seep.

I'm not slugging too much tonight or tomorrow but Friday I may open something.

Well done to ac-fast for getting off Cruz Ruby so quickly.

I'm having a Grahams 70 and another yet to be decided, on Friday evening at a Dinner Party in Yorkshire. Looking forward to it. Derek gave me it last year as a thank you for housing him at a Do! I'm hoping its a gem, as it's one of those teaching folk about Port occasions.

Alan

Alan,

If it's the bottle I gave you it's a Graham's 75, not a 70.

I enjoy it and I hope you do too but I don't think I would describe it as a gem. The stash that it came from did not have the best of attention during their years of ageing and they are probably a bit more advanced than other batches of this particular VP. The notes I have on this suggest that 24 hours decanting is a good thing so if you are still up pop it now! Both times I have had it there has been lots of heat in the early stages and this has faded away by 24 hours leaving a very Graham's plummy juice experience.

Derek

Back on topic, I am currently sipping a Fonseca 85

Easter weekend will probably cause the demise of something nice. There are a couple of F66's that keep winking at me every time I open my wine cooler

Derek

Leave them F66s alone. We’ll have them them when I’m in blighty.

jdaw1 wrote:Leave them F66s alone. We’ll have them them when I’m in blighty.

Are you having another one of your episodes?

Derek,

are you suggesting more than 24hrs, or did you lose a day? If its just 24, I'll decant this evening for tomorrow. Thanks for the advice, anyway.

Alan

Alan,

24 hours is what I meant. I am being confused because of the Easter holidays.

Derek

My easter ports are the sogevinus VPs from 05. The Calem VP now comes in 0,5l bottles.

ac-fast, how did you like the Portal 05?

As we say in Germany: Dicke Eier!

Axel

I just decanted the Niepoort 2000 LBV.
Once that's gone, it's the Andresen 2000 LBV.

My Lenten abstinence has involved avoiding port, so this Sunday should be marked by something special. But what???? Oh, the agony!

I think it would be greedy to down an old bottle, of which I have very few, in one night all by myself as the only port drinker in the household. So, something mature which can last a couple of nights.

The Croft 77 probably fits the bill. I find it a luscious and not cloyingly sweet port. Roll on Sunday!

Overtired and emotional wrote:I think it would be greedy to down an old bottle, of which I have very few, in one night all by myself as the only port drinker in the household.

Oh. Is that a rule? Are others bound by it?

jdaw1 wrote:

Overtired and emotional wrote:I think it would be greedy to down an old bottle, of which I have very few, in one night all by myself as the only port drinker in the household.

Oh. Is that a rule? Are others bound by it?

I really do hope not otherwise I am definately going to Hell

Derek

Derek T. wrote:I am definately going to Hell

That might be bad: Hell, Michigan appears not to have a liquor store (wikipedia).

Axel P wrote:My easter ports are the sogevinus VPs from 05. The Calem VP now comes in 0,5l bottles.

ac-fast, how did you like the Portal 05?

As we say in Germany: Dicke Eier!

Axel

The Single Quinta Portal 05 is very fruty, intens, black current, littel pebber. I love it