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Has the venue been booked by someone?

I was under the impression that the ever efficient JDAW had, but it's not in the thread..

Dont do this tasting without Vallegre Vintage Port 2011. Fantastic and the biggest surprise of 2011

Or Crasto or Burmester - the latter was quite a surprise also..

Andy Velebil wrote:

Put me down please. Thanks.

Careful.. - we might have euthanasia on demand by then.

Mind you - you'll only be a sprightly 78 - which used to be a record..

Imagine if the entire wine industry moved to square or rectangular bottles instead If port was bottled in square bottles with rounded corners - similar to Jack Daniels bottles - they could be racked with over 50% better space efficiency. Unfortunately it would be a different story when bin storing,...

Trafalgar Day 2018 My assessment of the 2016 port vintage, its inclusion in my rolling evaluation of the sixty most recent vintages, and my updated full vintage rankings. Before describing how I arrived at my assessment of this vintage, it is perhaps worth noting three characteristics of the 2016 v...

Tomorrow is Trafalgar Day, and the day I have elected to update my vintage rankings for port The basic component of this is a relative ranking of the sixty most recent vintages from Alpha to Zeta – or A to F, according in each sector of ten vintages, three with the suffix + and three with the suffix...

I havn't been able to locate any Cruz vintage 1992. I know it has been made.

Visiting the Cruz cellars a couple of years back, Axel P and I found some some neglected pallet cages full of odd Cruz VP's from that period - mostly with decaying labels and adorned with odd cigarette butts..

'72 is an odd year - a declaration suddenly interrupted by the alcohol scandal in '74

Yes, I have some '72s - and if anyone needs a Dow or Offley for a tasting I'm happy to oblige..

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11:44 Sat 13 Oct 2018

Is OBV a possibility?

If it is port then that would fit, but we still have the problem with the shape of the bottle glass. I wonder if our Scandinavian friends can input on this, as the shape bears no resemblance to anything I've seen used in either UK or Portuguese bottlings..

But since I can clearly see a horizontal line coming off of the vertical, PORT seems more likely than 1910 to me. Bear in mind that this is a wax embossing rather than a cork branding, so the distortions seen on brands will not occur here. We can clearly see the character 0 or O and also the kernin...

Of all the various wine storage systems, the traditional wood and metal racks are as space efficient as any other, barring large bins. And although always quoted in mm, the dimensions usually translate back to imperial measures, the pitch of racks of standard bottles being either 3 13/16" (96.8mm) o...

I'm not convinced that bottle is port.

The neck profiling is atypical of bottles hailing from either the UK or Portugal - there's a slightly eastern european hint to the styling, but beyond that, I can't find a match..

Default for me also please

Do we have a date for this yet?

All my bottles were delivered last Weds 1908,1935,1975

Any news from the front line?

The Atlantic summer weather pattern seems to be breaking up early this year, with a clutch of systems forming. A Cat 2 hurricane called Helene looks particularly menacing, it's remnants could well dump a load of rain into Europe in about a week's time..

Try eBay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wooden-Cork- ... 0mWWakux4Q

- and plenty of others..

Well done Julian - it's been a long time in the making..

Just had a look at the ordering page..

..what's the TPF discount code??

Mystery resolved - it's a '67 with a damaged label..

I will bring the Niepoort on the day

Welcome to the forum! There was quite a lot of Cockburn '55 made, bottled in 1957, but I have never heard of a Cockburn vintage port of the vintage 1957. Another possibility is that this might have been a Cockburn crusted port (normally a blend of vintages) bottled in 1957, although I've never spott...

There is only one known declared vintage port from 1993, Q. Licieras, but it's really hard to find, and the only known stockist (in Portugal) is holding out for an absurd amount. There are a small number of LBVs also, and the Q. Crasto LBV is actually a decent wine, but again, hard to find. I am und...

I suggest organising it as a self-pour walk around tasting. Put all the bottles on some tables at one end of the Red Room and people just help themselves to what they want, sitting down and taking notes as they wish.

That would work..

The official blind tasting of the 2011 vintage in Porto had over 50 wines. Some thought it was too heavy a session, but I managed to keep my palate clear by drinking copious amounts of water, and by keeping reference glasses back from each flight was able to stop my opinion of the wines from driftin...

Late notice - but room for one more?