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Christopher wrote: ↑
13:57 Sun 28 Jun 2020
The card in the front slips out and in a nice piece of design work turns out to be a Graham’s Malvedos Coaster!

I have a few spare. Coasters: genius.

Sainsbury’s pre-summer clearance (mentioned in Port for sale by retailer and in a TN ) has 2006 Graham Malvedos at £23. They come in single-bottle wooden boxes, as also do, for example, the Tesco Symington 2007 Vintage. With some simple wood glue, eleven of these can make a small table that holds a ...

This thread is to hold examples of things made from Port packaging.

Included by reference is the Port-bottle table lamp.

Re Sainsbury’s pre-summer clearance: GM06, decanted noon. Sainsbury’s pre-summer clearance†, £23. New cork, tight-fighting, came out whole, felt like good quality. Impressive cork choice by our friends the Symingtons. Dark dark red, circa 95% opaque. Nose of blackcurrants and spice. Palate starts dr...

GM06, decanted noon. Sainsbury’s pre-summer clearance†, £23. New cork, tight-fighting, came out whole, felt like good quality. Impressive cork choice by our friends the Symingtons. Dark dark red, circa 95% opaque. Nose of blackcurrants and spice. Palate starts dry, with a herbaceous green note (holl...

There arrived yesterday my Port, labelled “Dow 1878”. Fantastic, thank you. Looking very dark for its age, perhaps reminiscent of the Mk55. Please do send a picture of the cork and bottle.

See Cruz Ruby Revisited.

Davy’s Wine Vaults to Reopen on 4th July There is light at the end of the tunnel. We are thrilled that Davy's Wine Vaults in Greenwich will reopen on Saturday 4th July , following the Government's announcement, and we are now taking bookings for the inside and outside areas. As you would expect, th...

Though this is not a Port cocktail, it is a cocktail, and in the modern world this comment of Kingsley Amis (Everyday Drinking, 1983) deserves a fresh airing:

My suspicion is that the real recipe includes some more sugar to make it more stable and probably some other “secret ingredients”, perhaps either vanilla or cloves (like vin d’orange) but I’ll keep this first batch simple and see how it goes! Most recipes are improved by a dash of Worcestershire sa...

In the label, why have you moved away from upper case? if a modern typesetting fetish, why not small caps (“Bɪᴛᴛᴀʟʟ”)? You’ve also steepened the angle from about 30° to 45°: why?

Comment from Dominic Symington:

Bittall was an infusion of sun-dried orange & tangerine skins. I don’t know the quantity nor the time of infusion/maceration.

We have only a few left (last made circa late 1960s), but not for sale. It’s now quite viscous, which might be due to its age.

JacobH wrote: ↑
23:34 Thu 04 Jun 2020
Am I right in thinking "old port" in this time period would mean a tawny of some description?

AHB wrote: ↑
20:42 Tue 09 Jun 2020
Absolutely it would. Probably something along the lines of a 10YO tawny, possibly 20YO.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑
21:34 Thu 04 Jun 2020
Edit: my last sighting of Bittall was in the catalogue of November 1955:

The mention of orange as an ingredient reminded me of Bittall: I’d forgotten all about that! Interestingly there is almost no more information about this drink available on the web now than there was in 2011. Pretty much the only references to it at to Kinglsey Amis’ book. However, looking at some ...

Great post from Jacob. The mention of orange as an ingredient reminded me of Bittall: Port cocktails: http://www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110806_Iberian_Bittall_Kingsley_Amis.jpg The Wine Society, June 1949: http://www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110806_194906_Bittall.jpg So Bittall is like pink port, excep...

This thread is hold comment on and discussion of Bittall.

Look is good. Soon to test usability — I will report here.

nac wrote: ↑
00:54 Mon 15 Jun 2020
Are these still available?

Yes. Remind me just before the next physically-present tasting.

Glenn E. wrote: ↑
23:52 Sat 13 Jun 2020
jdaw1 wrote:Does not compute. Warre is excellent and under-rated. Even by those who rate it ‘excellent’.
Care for some brown sticky stuff?

Sure, brown sticky can be good. Indeed, very good. Ditto Warre.

AHB wrote: ↑
23:07 Fri 12 Jun 2020
In the vintage declaration listings 2005-2018 there are now some producers who do not appear in the Port House abbreviations list.

Does this need remedying?

Please say who is missing, and from there the usual process can happen.

Glenn E. wrote: ↑
22:35 Thu 11 Jun 2020
I may have to get creative. I generally don't like Warre's style,

Does not compute. Warre is excellent and under-rated. Even by those who rate it ‘excellent’.

AHB wrote: ↑
20:24 Thu 11 Jun 2020
I recently saw a bottle of Mackenzie White Port where the small print on the label disclosed the producer and bottler as Andresen. Could it be that the Mackenzie name is now owned by Andresen?

I’ve heard that before, but don’t recall my source.

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