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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...

That latter sounds like a 73cl bottle, not uncommonly used in the 60s and 70s in the wine trade. Does the Offley bottle it say 75cl on the label, or is it silent on volume? That's a new one on me - the label is silent, as you say. How on earth did they arrive at the figure of 73cL? I know they used...

This is a little exercise that I've been meaning to do for ages and have finally got round to - determining equivalent levels on Niepoort bottles. As we all know, it's very hard when looking at that swept neck to decide whether the level is IN or BN etc. Moreover, this is not an exact science as the...

Have you collected/separated data for different types of capsules, such as those horrible rubber things from the '60s? For example, I would expect that a full wax capsule would lose less weight over time than a simple tin capsule with no wax. The 1960s plastic capsules make a good seal, current ull...

Now over six years since I started weighing every port bottle that passes through my hands, I am beginning to gather some useful re-weighing data. I noticed a while back that my scales, which are marketed as 0.1g resolution, also have the ability to read in Grains, which are roughly 0.065g. I decide...

After bleaching, the cork on the ullaged bottled of crusted I brought along to drink through boldly proclaimed:

Henekeys Ltd
Crusted

- But no date..

but am equally happy to go shopping if needed

I can provide several bottles for adoption..

Many for whom 9th July fails. Tom: new date please.

I'm fairly flexible - does a week before or after change things significantly, or do we need to take it to September?

Tom: have you available anything not already being brought? (V, SW, Ts, Ch, EV, F, Cr, Sk, N.)

The easiest (as they are downstairs..) would be Cockburn, Gould Campbell or Kopke

Suggest adoptions of Dow and Warre to ensure we have all main players present if possible.

My stocks are in deeply buried owcs, so not readily available..

Have just noticed that I was first reserve - was invited in, but have noticed now that I am not on the list..

If anyone needs to adopt could they let me know ASAP please.

Unless someone else is bringing one, I will bring the Vesuvio

I didn't get to taste it on the day - it was quickly dismissed by others as corked and put to one side.

I took this bottle home with me and after leaving it stood up and stoppered for six months, have just sampled it.

I can detect a fair degree of oxidation, but no trace of TCA now..