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DaveRL wrote: ↑

18:42 Thu 17 Jan 2019

Anything fortified from Victoria Wine? Could be interesting

Vetoed.

Bartholomew Broadbent wrote:I apologize again that I had to cancel the Port tasting on March 14th.

Would you be interested in re-scheduling it to Wednesday, May 1st?

Does that work?

Hello. To help a possible purchaser (not me) please say where in the world are you and the bottle.

One possible theme could be the Messias Quinta do Cachão vertical, which needs a new date. (If that, its list of attendees will have precedence over these.)

Should this be the theme for Victoriaʼs 200th birthday?

I’m going to assume that currently-on-holiday THRA wants to attend.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

22:46 Sun 30 Dec 2018

My TNs very belatedly typed. Does anybody have the score sheet, or a picture of it?

IDJ has, and has sent me a picture of, the scores. We liked the 1963 and 1966.

G97, decanted 07:00. Dark dark red, 95% opaque. Prunes and heat early, light mid palate. Then plum into a long late palate.

G66, decanted 14:00. Glorious red, 50% opaque. Smooth, big, long and lovely, with much red cherry, and slight heat mid-palate. Top-rank Port, though lighter than perfection.

G60, decanted 18:00. Red-pink, 30% opaque. Nose had varnish. Palate had heat and grit, maraschino cherry mid-palate, and sweet late palate.

D70, decanted 16:00. Dark red, 60% opaque. Palate of dry cherry, big, rounded, tip-top Port. Very long. I added lots of words of praise: lovely, big, soft, fantastic. My, but only my, WOTN.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1970 Dow (JDAW);
• 1960 Graham (AHB);
• 1966 Graham (CPR);
• 1997 Graham (IDJ);
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

On Thursday 3^rd January 2019, four of us gathered at The Boot & Flogger for an emergency.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1970 Dow (JDAW);
• 1960 Graham (AHB);
• 1966 Graham (CPR);
• 1997 Graham (IDJ);
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

On Thursday 3^rd January 2019, four of us gathered at The Boot & Flogger for an emergency.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1970 Dow (JDAW);
• 1960 Graham (AHB);
• 1966 Graham (CPR);
• 1997 Graham (IDJ);
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

On Thursday 3^rd January 2019, four of us gathered at The Boot & Flogger for an emergency.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1970 Dow (JDAW);
• 1960 Graham (AHB);
• 1966 Graham (CPR);
• 1997 Graham (IDJ);
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

On Thursday 3^rd January 2019, four of us gathered at The Boot & Flogger for an emergency.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1970 Dow (JDAW);
• 1960 Graham (AHB);
• 1966 Graham (CPR);
• 1997 Graham (IDJ);
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

On Thursday 3^rd January 2019, four of us gathered at The Boot & Flogger for an emergency.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1970 Dow (JDAW);
• 1960 Graham (AHB);
• 1966 Graham (CPR);
• 1997 Graham (IDJ);
• Placemats;
• Planning and arrangements.

First post updated.

Theme? It could be merged with a theme already wanted — horizontal, vertical, other. Or not.

From Victoria: The Queen , Julia Baird : “Queen Victoria was born, roaring, at 4:15 ᴀ.ᴍ., in the hour before dawn on May 24, 1819”. The time convenient to us that is closest to the two hundredth anniversary of that would be the evening of Thursday 23 rd May 2019. Our theme could be Victorian Port, o...