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Calém 1985 decanted 9am this morning.

Will be online as soon as I can after 18.30 when I have finished Zac’s bathtime!

Stream just came online for me! Whee!

Is it over? My meeting has ended and I'm waiting to re-join the Teams call.

Glenn E. wrote: ↑21:05 Tue 07 Feb 2023 Is it over? My meeting has ended and I'm waiting to re-join the Teams call.

It ended when the food arrived

Many thanks again for all those whose voted and attended. The winners were

1. Best tasting note - 1970 Dow from WHW
2. Best tasting - BBR vertical arranged by IDJ
3. Imbiber of the year - JDAW (of course)
4. Most accurate blind taster - AHB at the White Port tasting
5. Best Port at a tasting - 1922 Tuke Holdsworth from the Xmas tasting provided by THRA
6. Producer of the year - Graham

Zak - thank you so much for organising the inaugural Portlies Awards night. That was tremendous fun.

If anyone picked up my Awards Glass, please hold on to it until you see me next! I did a Mike..

That was jolly fun. Hurrah! Congratulations to the worthy winners, and thank you to Zak for arranging, and thank you all for some very nice ports. As good a Warre 1970 as I have ever had, a fine Fonseca 63, and I was delighted to make the acquaintance of Graham 60.

A wonderful evening. Profuse thanks, Zak, and to Julian for MC-ing.

A worthy first place for an excellent showing of Fonseca 1963.

The wines we tasted at the Awards Ceremony were:
1960 Burmester
1970 Croft
1970 Delaforce
1963 Fonseca
1960 Graham
1985 Martinez
1970 Noval
1970 Rebello Valente
1970 Smith Woodhouse
1966 Warre
1970 Warre

Edit by JDAW on 30 May 2023:
Review of the evening as a whole;
Placemats;
Planning and arrangements.