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Date: Thursday May 23rd 2024
Venue: Boot and Flogger - Red room - booked

The plan:

To purchase two dozen different bottles of LBV from Portugal Vineyards and have them shipped directly to the B&F

Four flights of six bottles, two flights from the 2017 vintage and two from the 2018 vintage

Each flight compromising five young Turks - producers we rarely see as VP, bottling LBV with driven corks - and one reference bottle, a major well known brand, which may or may not be T stoppered.

The young Turks to be served fully sighted, the reference bottle blind, to see how many can guess it correctly.

After each flight attendees are asked to identify and retain the two glasses they found most impressive, which may or may not include the reference bottle, and either down or dump the remaining four.

From the final eight retained glasses, they are then asked to identify their six favourites, scoring from one to six.

Slightly different arrangements to our normal routine for placemats and scoring, I'm thinking I'll probably print each attendee a set of stickers they can put on the placemats to remind them of their retained glasses.

People:

1. Tom A.;
2. Martin C.;
3. Charles R.;
4. Rich N.;
5. Mike M.;
6. Zak R.;
7. Ian J.;
8. Julian W.;
9. Ben P.;
10. Luke P..

Reserves:

• Alex B.;
• Michael C.;
• George G.;
• Neil C..

Current draft of the placemats.

May I have a seat at this event please.....

Cheers

Martin

Oh that sounds fun. Yes please, subject to court commitments.

Yes please, although I might suggest smaller range of years and more producers?

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Yes please! I have plenty of younger LBV but would be keen to try other producers.

CPR 1 wrote:Yes please, although I might suggest smaller range of years and more producers?

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I would tend to agree with this suggestion

Count me in, Tom. Many thanks.

Yes please.

Sounds fun - yes please!

Yes please Tom.

Yes please.

Yes please, although I might suggest smaller range of years and more producers?

So maybe ditch the 2019 vintage and go for flights of eight?

Yes please!

uncle tom wrote: ↑03:23 Tue 09 Jan 2024

Yes please, although I might suggest smaller range of years and more producers?

So maybe ditch the 2019 vintage and go for flights of eight?

I am most interested in trying different producers - thus I would suggest restricting it to just the 17 and 18 vintages but with 10 'new' producers?

This might also make it easier to select producers as I am not sure that many producers have 4 vintages of LBV on sale at the same time

Yes please.

winesecretary wrote: ↑08:44 Mon 08 Jan 2024 Oh that sounds fun. Yes please, subject to court commitments.

Oh dear. Have you been a bad boy again?

CPR 1 wrote: ↑10:35 Tue 09 Jan 2024

uncle tom wrote: ↑03:23 Tue 09 Jan 2024

Yes please, although I might suggest smaller range of years and more producers?

So maybe ditch the 2019 vintage and go for flights of eight?

I am most interested in trying different producers - thus I would suggest restricting it to just the 17 and 18 vintages but with 10 'new' producers?

This might also make it easier to select producers as I am not sure that many producers have 4 vintages of LBV on sale at the same time

I wasn't planning to make each flight have the same producers, just the same vintage. As you say, getting multiple vintages with LBV is really difficult unless you plan for years ahead.

I'm interested in attending, but obviously subject to being around on the chosen date.

I think I'm number 13 on the list...

uncle tom wrote: ↑13:23 Tue 09 Jan 2024

CPR 1 wrote: ↑10:35 Tue 09 Jan 2024

uncle tom wrote: ↑03:23 Tue 09 Jan 2024

Yes please, although I might suggest smaller range of years and more producers?

So maybe ditch the 2019 vintage and go for flights of eight?

I am most interested in trying different producers - thus I would suggest restricting it to just the 17 and 18 vintages but with 10 'new' producers?

This might also make it easier to select producers as I am not sure that many producers have 4 vintages of LBV on sale at the same time

I wasn't planning to make each flight have the same producers, just the same vintage. As you say, getting multiple vintages with LBV is really difficult unless you plan for years ahead.

Ahhh I had mis understood the original plan - I would still suggest reducing the vintages to just 2 to reduce the other variables and focus on 2017 and 2018

CPR 1 wrote: ↑20:38 Tue 09 Jan 2024

uncle tom wrote: ↑13:23 Tue 09 Jan 2024

CPR 1 wrote: ↑10:35 Tue 09 Jan 2024

uncle tom wrote: ↑03:23 Tue 09 Jan 2024

Yes please, although I might suggest smaller range of years and more producers?

So maybe ditch the 2019 vintage and go for flights of eight?

I am most interested in trying different producers - thus I would suggest restricting it to just the 17 and 18 vintages but with 10 'new' producers?

This might also make it easier to select producers as I am not sure that many producers have 4 vintages of LBV on sale at the same time

I wasn't planning to make each flight have the same producers, just the same vintage. As you say, getting multiple vintages with LBV is really difficult unless you plan for years ahead.

Ahhh I had mis understood the original plan - I would still suggest reducing the vintages to just 2 to reduce the other variables and focus on 2017 and 2018

As the number of 16s is starting to dwindle, getting a flight of eight together come the spring may be tricky. Will look at two flights of six 17s and two flights of 18s

Need to set a date for this. Trying to avoid school hols, bank holiday weeks and other events, how does Thursday April 25th suit people?

That's the Thursday after the BFT, which a number of us might be volunteering at. I'm open to doing that evening but just wanted to mention it in case it causes any issue.

My diary is pretty full late April / early May.

Pop me on the reserves list for 25th April, just in case I can make it nearer the time.

rich_n wrote: ↑09:41 Tue 23 Jan 2024 That's the Thursday after the BFT, which a number of us might be volunteering at. I'm open to doing that evening but just wanted to mention it in case it causes any issue.

This is true but Im available for the 25th

I’m afraid I’m also busy in the last week of April, so please could I be put onto the reserves in case I can get my hearings schedule thinned down.

OK - April 25th is looking difficult - would a week later work better for people?

Tuesday or Thursday of the next week works for me ....

Week of 29th April good for me - previous week I am in USA.

I can make that week work as long as it's not Friday as I'll be heading to Belfast for a wedding.

uncle tom wrote: ↑03:57 Wed 24 Jan 2024 OK - April 25th is looking difficult - would a week later work better for people?

Unfortunately not for me I am away that week. TBH original suggested date was difficult too. We don't have anything after Mid in the diary for a bit thus how about early June?

hi tom
yes please - ill go on the reserves if full

I'm good w/c 29th April. Would prefer it not to be Thursday 2nd, but each night is possible.

I doubt there's any week that will suit everyone, and only Charles seems to have a problem with w/c 29th April.

Unless there's crying and gnashing of teeth in the next 24hrs, I propose to email the B&F to see if the Red Room is free on Tues April 30th.

I’m not crying or gnashing my teeth, but as I remarked earlier, my diary is rammed in April and May.

I can’t make any date in the week commencing 29 April.

I can likely do 30 April but may be a bit jetlagged. An evening of young LBV will definitely help, right?

Two down and one jet-lagged..
Hmm.. - defer to June?

I wouldn't object to June if it's better for the group.

Towards the end of June ?? The 77 is on the 11th

But São João is on June 23rd and some of us might not be in the UK.

What about week commencing 27 May?

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑11:55 Fri 16 Feb 2024 What about week commencing 27 May?

Half term week…

Have checked with the B&F, Thurs May 2nd or Thurs May 23rd are both free. As later dates seem problematic until the end of June, let's go for one of these two.

May 2nd has two down and one sub par - how does the 23rd pan out as an alternative?

uncle tom wrote: ↑13:18 Thu 29 Feb 2024 Have checked with the B&F, Thurs May 2nd or Thurs May 23rd are both free. As later dates seem problematic until the end of June, let's go for one of these two.

May 2nd has two down and one sub par - how does the 23rd pan out as an alternative?

23rd May works well for me

The 23rd of May works very well for me.

23rd May sounds good to me

23rd is good for me...

23rd May works for me.

23rd good for me too.

23rd also works for me!

OK - May 23rd it is. Red room booked.

I gather a new menu is being launched this spring, so hold fire on choices until we can see what they now are.

Tom

Apologies but I'm going to have to drop out of this. I've now got to attend a work event that evening.

Sorry
Neil