I am afraid I have to cancel, plans have changed...
Alex and Jacob thank you for your possitive response, and hopefully I'll be able to visit a PortForum tasting in my next UK visit...
Santé,
Joost
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- 13:48 Wed 13 Jul 2011
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 19th of August in the UK?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7337
- 18:43 Sat 11 Jun 2011
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 19th of August in the UK?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7337
Re: 19th of August in the UK?
It would be great meeting you and London is perfect for us. I don't have special preferences for a theme. Any suggestions? I should ask my friend as well... I don't have a real large collection of ports and almost all of it is not yet 20 years old. Main houses present are: Fonseca and Taylor, but I ...
- 20:49 Tue 07 Jun 2011
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 19th of August in the UK?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7337
19th of August in the UK?
Hi all,
A Portloving friend of mine and I will (or can easily plan to) be in the UK on the friday the 19th of August. Is there any chance to meet some of you and taste some ports?
Santé,
Joost
A Portloving friend of mine and I will (or can easily plan to) be in the UK on the friday the 19th of August. Is there any chance to meet some of you and taste some ports?
Santé,
Joost
- 12:12 Tue 13 Jul 2010
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2005 Fonseca Guimaraens
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5394
Re: 2005 Fonseca
Alex,
It was from my cellar and it was the Guimaraens!
And I am quite sure you saw it opened, because you were there when we opened it in the afternoon! But you are excused because of the heat
Santé,
Joost
It was from my cellar and it was the Guimaraens!
And I am quite sure you saw it opened, because you were there when we opened it in the afternoon! But you are excused because of the heat
Santé,
Joost
- 09:00 Mon 05 Jul 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
- Replies: 92
- Views: 50320
Re: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
No need for completeness. The serie is already great!
I have Guimaraens 05 available, if necessary...
Santé,
Joost
I have Guimaraens 05 available, if necessary...
Santé,
Joost
- 23:01 Sun 04 Jul 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
- Replies: 92
- Views: 50320
Re: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
Hi Axel,
That sounds really great! You're really filling the gaps... Now we have almost have the last 40 years of Fonseca complete, what are we still missing and can we complete?
I think Fonseca 1980 and 2007?
Santé,
Joost
That sounds really great! You're really filling the gaps... Now we have almost have the last 40 years of Fonseca complete, what are we still missing and can we complete?
I think Fonseca 1980 and 2007?
Santé,
Joost
- 12:13 Sat 26 Jun 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
- Replies: 92
- Views: 50320
Re: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
Hi Julian,
The placemets tasting forms look great.
Some small comments:
- HermanG attends with a FG84
- No translation to Dutch necessary, please keep it in English!
- Can you reserve 2 places for 'Mystery Ports'
Furthermore I think everything is great!!!
Santé,
Joost
The placemets tasting forms look great.
Some small comments:
- HermanG attends with a FG84
- No translation to Dutch necessary, please keep it in English!
- Can you reserve 2 places for 'Mystery Ports'
Furthermore I think everything is great!!!
Santé,
Joost
- 07:18 Mon 14 Jun 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
- Replies: 92
- Views: 50320
Re: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
Hi Ronald,
Jeroen will attend as well! I assume his contribution will be revealed soon...
Santé,
Joost
Jeroen will attend as well! I assume his contribution will be revealed soon...
Santé,
Joost
- 13:55 Sun 23 May 2010
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Dow's 2007 Vintage - 100 PTS Wine Spectator
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34177
Re: Dow's 2007 Vintage - 100 PTS Wine Spectator
I found Dow VP 2007 in the Gall&Gall of all places!!! (This is the largest chain of winestores, but only selling wines under 10/15€ usually)
They sell it for 60€, but I managed to get a 10% discounts... So thats 54 €...
Santé,
Joost
They sell it for 60€, but I managed to get a 10% discounts... So thats 54 €...
Santé,
Joost
- 10:46 Thu 18 Feb 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
- Replies: 92
- Views: 50320
Re: Summer offline in The Netherlands?
2 wine-friends, with some special interest in Port, are interested as well in this tasting... Their attendancy can be classified as 'likely' at this stage and their names are Jeroen and Thijs... Santé, Joost Is that the Jeroen that I know? And I presume that that's Thijs van Leer, in which case a y...
- 13:28 Tue 16 Feb 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
- Replies: 92
- Views: 50320
Re: Summer offline in The Netherlands?
2 wine-friends, with some special interest in Port, are interested as well in this tasting... Their attendancy can be classified as 'likely' at this stage and their names are Jeroen and Thijs...
Santé,
Joost
Santé,
Joost
- 09:47 Mon 15 Feb 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
- Replies: 92
- Views: 50320
Re: Summer offline in The Netherlands?
I like the idea of a Fonseca or Niepoort vertical... And have a small stock F's and Ni's...
Santé,
Joost
Santé,
Joost
- 19:20 Wed 10 Feb 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
- Replies: 92
- Views: 50320
Re: Summer offline in The Netherlands?
I think Sandra will try some of the Ports as well, after not really drinking for 2,5 years. So she would like to attend as well... In my opinion the theme doesn't have to be a single year! Maybe we can get together a 'matrix'-tasting, 4 years and 4 houses? I do not have that much 'old' bottles, only...
- 13:28 Tue 09 Feb 2010
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Summer offline in The Netherlands - 9 July 2010
- Replies: 92
- Views: 50320
Re: Summer offline in The Netherlands?
Great initiative, I'm in!
And of course I can host the tasting...
Santé,
Joost
And of course I can host the tasting...
Santé,
Joost
- 09:06 Wed 13 Jan 2010
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Niepoort "10years old white"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3896
Re: Niepoort "10years old white"
Price seems to be equal to the 10year old tawny. By the way, this 10 year old white doesn't mention the word 'tawny' and of course it doesn't have a tawny colour... Second day still lots of white chocolate, hardly nothing more than that... I suppose they were thinking it was like most "normal&q...
- 08:44 Tue 12 Jan 2010
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Niepoort "10years old white"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3896
Re: Niepoort "10years old white"
Opened it yesterday. I fully agree it could have some more complexity. I also agree it is much too expansive (I paid 30€)... In the wineshop where I bought it, they told me it was not that sweet, but after tasting I can't agree!!! It was really sweet... It tasted like a juice of white chocolate! The...
- 12:09 Sun 10 Jan 2010
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Niepoort "10years old white"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3896
Niepoort "10years old white"
Hi all, It's been a long time since I wrote on this forum, sorry for that. But at least I have been reading once in a while... I was looking for a nice Port to drink 'one glass a night' for a week or so and usually I like tawny ports for this purpose. So looking for a nice tawny I found a bottle of ...
- 12:06 Mon 02 Feb 2009
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Decanting advice Fonseca 1985
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6540
Re: Decanting advice Fonseca 1985
Hi Ronnie, The theme was: Soldera Case Basse Vertical (98-99-00-01) - Brunello di Montalcino And aside we tasted: - Barolo 1957 - Marchesi di Barolo - Chianti Classico Riserva Il Poggio Monsanto 1971 - Super tuscan Flacchianello 1990 - Brunello 1997 Chiacci - Pegau 1998 Chateauneuf - Valdicava 2004 ...
- 20:59 Sun 01 Feb 2009
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Decanting advice Fonseca 1985
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6540
Re: Decanting advice Fonseca 1985
Opened the bottle about an hour before leaving. Had some problems with the cork ,it wouldn't come out!!!!
But the wine triple decanted (at arrival decanted in the final caraffe) showed up really great. Everybody liked it, and for most it was the best Port ever!!!
Santé,
Joost
But the wine triple decanted (at arrival decanted in the final caraffe) showed up really great. Everybody liked it, and for most it was the best Port ever!!!
Santé,
Joost
- 07:56 Wed 28 Jan 2009
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Decanting advice Fonseca 1985
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6540
Re: Decanting advice Fonseca 1985
Thanks for all the advices...
I shall double decant just before leaving and I'll decant again at arrival...
Santé,
Joost
I shall double decant just before leaving and I'll decant again at arrival...
Santé,
Joost
- 07:52 Wed 28 Jan 2009
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Crusted ports from the nineties
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5786
Re: Crusted ports from the nineties
Haven't had that much experience with Crusted Port, but I still have a Graham Crusted bottled in 1998...
Santé,
Joost
Santé,
Joost
- 14:37 Tue 27 Jan 2009
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Decanting advice Fonseca 1985
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6540
Decanting advice Fonseca 1985
For a wine tasting next weekend I planned to bring a bottle of Fonseca 1985. The tasters are not really that Port minded, so I like this port to perform as good as possible. But I should travel (30 min) with the bottle 5 hours in advance of the taste moment... Under assumption that it is not possibl...
- 16:45 Mon 29 Dec 2008
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: Books on CDP
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5022
Re: Books on CDP
Uncle Tom, I met the author a month ago, when he organised a CDP-tasting with about 150 different CDP's including most of the top-cuvées. Very professionally orgnaised, while it was just for wine-lovers... He is really passionated and I am very sure his book will be the reference for Chateauneuf. It...
- 16:04 Mon 07 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: TN Catch Up
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2062
- 08:41 Mon 07 Jul 2008
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Dutch Summer Ofline - 1977 Horizontal
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14830
Thank you all for being there... It took some days to recover :? but now everything is back to normal again. My 8-week old son (Abel) knows now he is not the 'loudest person on earth' :) anymore, so since wednesday he is just sweet and quiet. Or maybe it was the 'Fonseca 77' aftertaste he had in his...