Congratulations Derek!
Posted: 14:33 Sat 28 Mar 2009
Congratulations with your birthday Derek. While you enjoy the last bit of the 1965 Vargellas, we will toast to your health with a Noval LBV 2001. Cheers!

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No matter how much he'd want to, Derek is not a bottle of port.benread wrote:I find it amusing that your birthday message has been posted in meaningless drivel and not port conversations!
With the quantity he drinks we could probably have a good debate about that!RonnieRoots wrote:No matter how much he'd want to, Derek is not a bottle of port.benread wrote:I find it amusing that your birthday message has been posted in meaningless drivel and not port conversations!
I hereby request that on my demise someone here arranges for my ashes to be placed in an empty 1965 Vintage Port port bottle so that the announcement of my departure can be made in the Port forum rather than MD.benread wrote:With the quantity he drinks we could probably have a good debate about that!RonnieRoots wrote:No matter how much he'd want to, Derek is not a bottle of port.benread wrote:I find it amusing that your birthday message has been posted in meaningless drivel and not port conversations!
Are reasonable substitutions allowed? Fonseca 1966 surely yes? Cruz 1989 probably not.DRT wrote:I hereby request that on my demise someone here arranges for my ashes to be placed in an empty 1965 Vintage Port port bottle so that the announcement of my departure can be made in the Port forum rather than MD.