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'27, '42, '47, and '60 are all on the scaffold, awaiting execution

Plan to double decant them between 2.00 and 3.30 and will then aim to be on parade by about 5.45 to allow time for pours

You attended your fiftieth birthday event, at The Bowler Attended being the operative word.. As I recall, they expected us to sit barely 1ft apart and there was an art exhibition taking place in the same room at the same time. Did I taste the NN60? I don't recall doing so - but I do recall spending...

Oops.. - I forgot to include Noval on my list, which I have a very nice stash of.

I've never had the NN60 - sounds like I've not missed much..

There will be fourteen of us, likely all full-capacity drinkers, and 14 × 1¼ = 17½. Table space limits us to 1×A3 + 1×A4, so to about 15 + 6 = 21 glasses. Would it be wrong to have between 18 and 20?

So which shippers shall we drop from my list?

Losing Messias, RCV and Sibio would leave 18

I have:

Butler Nephew
Calem
Cockburn
Croft
Delaforce
Dow
Ferreira
Fonseca
Gonzalez Byass
Graham
Martinez
Messias
Niepoort
Offley Boa Vista
Real Companhia Velha
Rebello Valente
Sandeman
Sibio
Smith Woodhouse
Taylor
Warre

- How many bottles do we want on the table.?

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Please add me to the reserves.

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16:41 Mon 21 Oct 2019

I'm still annoyed that I bought a bunch of 2009

I don't know why - be patient (or at least, tell your offspring to be patient)

I think 2009 will have an exceptional reputation when adjoining vintages start to fade..

Which when rearranged into best to worst gives 1980, 1983, 1975, 1985, 1987. There are a handful of ports from '80 and '83 that I think are very good, but then I could say the same about '85. And I think there are quite a few good ports from '75, but maybe not so many as to make that year a whole g...

Trafalgar Day 2019 My assessment of the 2017 port vintage, its inclusion in my rolling evaluation of the sixty most recent vintages, and my updated full vintage rankings. The near full declaration of the 2017 vintage immediately after declaring 2016 was a remarkable break from past tradition. Soon ...

Will be there - am not fussy about placemats etc

Is there space for another in that room?

Regret not..

Tom, please also confirm what you want to eat

I think my default menu choice is ex. stock - if they've changed the menu, something similar will do..

Confirm will bring Dow.

Alas, the winds have not changed. I’ll be landing in Chicago just as the first drops of ‘66 are passing your lips.

Enjoy.. O'Hare gets my vote for being the world's worst airport..

I could be available, if there's space..

Have plenty of '66 - Dow perhaps?

RV45 . Orange, 19% opaque. Alas barely Port: pineapple; thin; sweet; bland. I have forgotten how the RV45 arrived at the 1994 tasting. Please could this thread be reminded. I had collected three bottles from a shared auction lot that day - one was a Croft '45 in good order, another was an ullaged a...

A few days ago I opened an odd bottle of Croft '75 and I'll probably pop my next victim, a leaky Vargellas '84 tomorrow.

The only issue with VP in high summer is the importance of not letting the decanter get too warm.

I just write on the bottle with a chalk pen. It's then clear what the contents of the bottle are and is also clearly not an official label. I number each bottle so that I can then track back its provenance and know how long I've owned it. For cellar records I have two methods of marking port bottle...

“Replacement label by Tom Archer added July 2019.” It's not that much of a challenge to create an Excel based application that could generate a label from a set of scanned templates and a set of stored parameters for each template to indicate the position size and font of the vintage date, that cou...

In the days of English bottling, labelling rules were a bit anarchic and the control exerted by the producers over labelling varied considerably. Inducting a well cellared case of Dow 80 however, whose labels are all detached, one missing and most decayed, draws my attention to the fact that we need...

A very good value cellar defender at the moment is Dow's Midnight @ £5.50/500mL from ASDA. This is a clean fresh fruity quaff - above par for its class.

Gonzalez Byass certainly, and T stoppered.

At the risk of being hailed a pessimist, this could quite easily be a bottle of standard ruby or tawny..

Well done Tony!

those horrible rubber things Although lacking elegance, these capsules are not so horrid when you know how to get them off. Attacking the cold plastic with a Stanley knife is a recipe for expletives, if not a casualty. However you only have to warm them slightly and they pop off with the greatest o...