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Thank you for a wonderful event! It was great seeing old friends and meeting new ones. Sorry I had to bow out early, but I had work to get back to. But I returned rejuvenated and fortified for the rest of the week!

I'm headed downstairs to prepare now... I need to set up my netbook (which has the only working camera), so I may be a little bit late.

I have figured out a way to participate with video! Now you'll have to see my scruffy coronabeard.

AHB wrote: ↑

19:57 Thu 02 Apr 2020

Can I suggest that in honour of our mystery guest we adopt a theme of "Open a bottle of Quevedo Port, if you can."

I can, and am perfectly happy to do so, but I submit that what I open will likely be too obvious to count in the evening's point tally.

I think this is a great concept, but agree with Phil that it would have been nice to have had the Port package provide a higher-end experience. I can't justify 166 Euros in my house for a basic dry white, a ruby reserve, and 10YO tawny when the (presumably much higher quality) wines won't be enjoyed...

Tuesday April 7 might actually work for me. I have Zoom but do not have a camera, so I might have to be a voice-only participant. Or more correctly, I have 2 cameras (both very old) and approximately 23986710948 USB Type A-to-something else cables but precisely 0 USB Type A-to-USB Type A cables. You...

My wife gives up alcohol for Lent, so there has been no wine consumed in the house so far during the lockdown. I'm just finishing up an S. Leonardo 40 Year Old Tawny Port and have started pondering what to open next. I think it will be a VP, and probably an older one, but I haven't figured out which...

I desperately wanted to join in, but since I'm officially working from home and it would have been during the middle of my work day I felt it best not to. That plus I don't have a camera on my computer so wouldn't have been able to fully participate anyway. Sounds like a great way to hold a virtual ...

Quinta da Revolta 20 year old white?

Assuming I just drink what's in the cellar at home, then at a rate of one bottle per week I'm OK for about 11 years. Hopefully we'll be back to normal by then. I don't have an exact inventory of my wine fridges, but I think I'm in the same ballpark. I have 3 standard size fridges that are full (eac...

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22:51 Wed 18 Mar 2020

Mourão, and it's 60 years old

PhilW wrote:from Quinta da ....

So that would be a no, because Mourão is Quinta do Mourão.

10 Years Old, Quinta da Romaneira? (Do they even make whites?)

I'd agree with VDM as most obvious choice, and to my mind no more confusing with potential Vesuvio single quinta as Gould Campbell GC is with potential new Graham's single quinta (i.e. we already cope with this issue). Do we not already have VM for Quinta do Vale Meao anyway? Beat me to it. Yes, VM...

No. Just no. Way too generous. I can't imagine a definition of "classic" that would include 1989 but not 2015. 2009, 1992, 1991, 1987, 1982, 1978, 1967, and 1958 are at best arguable (and to varying degrees of arguable). My experience isn't sufficient prior to 1958 to comment, but I suspect there ar...

I believe Derek is correct. Other than the fact that the label appears to be a reproduction, the bottle, selo, and capsule all appear to be genuine. As has already been said... labels fall off occasionally and are then sometimes replaced with varying degrees of success. Personally I would not try to...

For some reason filling the glasses circle is more appealing to me than filling the empty space between glasses. Is this a quirky feature of Simon and our American cousins (and hence perhaps ignorable), or is this a general preference? It is such a mild preference for me - on a feature that I'm not...

I like all of the above for different reasons. But if I'm honest, I probably won't use these features. We're pretty basic with our placemats and are very happy with just the core functionality. I might try spirals (or anything else that fills the circle) some time. For some reason filling the glasse...

The few bottles that I have been able to purchase without Selos are in no way cellar defenders - they have all be very old tawny Ports, often bottles straight from cask, that I will cherish and savor at significant occasions. I would say that it is very unusual to be able to purchase a "younger" Por...

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11:42 Thu 31 Oct 2019

Which houses would you recommend for the ‘85 vintage?

Fonseca and Graham are easily the two best for me. They're followed by Dow, Smith Woodhouse, Taylor, Gould Campbell, and Churchill.

It's more than a bit confusing when different people give quite different scores. Those who score are no more than people, too. Educated and experienced people, but still just people like everyone else. We all have different tastes, which results in different scores. For any wine critic's scores to...

Hello and welcome. I’ve no interest in this bottle, but I’ll make a helpful observation. The prices you’ve quoted are the optimistic prices at which some wine merchants hope to sell. Which can be far above any measure of a fair achievable price. Which, for this, I’d expect to be high double-digits....

We did a "full vertical" of Stone Terraces this past Spring before the 2017 was declared, and my article on it appeared in the FTLOP newsletter.

It was splendid.

a bottle of Port is

Have to disagree with you gents; I'd take G77 over any of G80/G83/G85, and by no small margin. Over G85? Uh... no. :wink: I'd slot it in the middle somewhere. It's nowhere close to as good as G85 to me, and my recent experiences with G83 have been better than my most recent experiences with G77 (wh...

In the US, 1977 Graham's is available for $105 from The Chicago Wine Company and for only slightly more than that from 3 more reputable sources. So I think your $125 retail estimate is on the high side. That said, Phil's estimate of 50-60% of retail is more appropriate in the UK than in the US. Here...

In some sense, I use 40yo Tawny Port as a cellar defender because my cellar contains so much very old Tawny Port. When your "next" option is something from the 1960s, 1950s, or 1940s, a mere 40yo starts to look like a frugal choice. On the ruby side, it's by value for me. I have some very inexpensiv...