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Have just decanted a Niepoort '87 - the first time I've opened one of these for over 13 years..

..then I noted that it was way too young, now it's looking quite elegant.

I'm going for a different approach with a purpose built outer skin, 60mm of polyurethane foam insulation on all six sides, a 1" marine ply floor and a cellar conditioning unit that can provide a teperature differential of +/-20C. If you have mains electricity, this could be an option for you. Bear ...

Oops! - looks like I'm too late..

No worries - should I try to organise a 'super monkey' event - where everyone pulls a bottle from their cellar and everyone else tries to guess, given what they know about that person's preferences?

Has anyone actually turned a shed into a wine storage facility? It’s seems to be more complicated than I had hoped! Retrofitting a wooden shed is likely to throw up a variety of difficulties. However if you are not too obsessive about the detail, in certain circumstances very ordinary modern standa...

Mike's email now found - in my spam folder..

Did you get an email from Mike with a link to join the online call?

No..

It is June 16th, it is 7pm - I've not done one of these before - where is the action?

What would people recommend as the minimum gap between racks to allow a cellar master to access the wines in their cellar reasonably safely and comfortably? If you are planning single depth racks, specify 12" deep staves, as ones with shorter staves have stability issues at any height. Opposing 12"...

1908?

Correct - Gilbey 1908 - which I was told a long time ago is probably Croft, for which there are no notes..

Is this possibly the largest box for a single "bottle"?

Not quite..

You should see the boxes used to pack my Nebuchadnezzars..

I may have to get creative. I generally don't like Warre's style, so have none on hand except for a 1964 Grande Reserve that's... reserved... for a later date. Oh, and a 1937 Grande Reserve that should be shared with multiple people in person because it's fabulous. There's a decent chance that I ha...

Think I'll probably pop a W58

Why not!

I've got loads - although it's all rather deeply buried right now.

If you can bear with me for a month or two, I can sort you out some - drop me a PM..

Count me in.

I have an old ullaged bottle that I've owned for a very long time, vintage and bottler known, major shipper suspected anecdotally.

There are only a dozen or so notes posted for this vintage, most of them for Cockburn, which I believe this bottle probably isn't..

Trying to rectify 80s, but there’s not really much available When the '80 vintage was released, there was a sharp price hike over the '77 vintage, which, coupled to some economic jitters, resulted in the launch campaign failing. As a result, investment stocks coming to auction are very thin on the ...

I am in need of a decanter This is where eBay really comes into its own. Couple get married after living together for years, so they've got everything, and wedding presents are a real headache. So someone buys an expensive crystal decanter for them. - It goes under the stairs. Years later there is ...

SFE event went really very well. I've no idea where the microphone is on this 'puter, but it worked well at it's first outing.

Only one person seemed to have audio problems and very few were cracked up..

Thanks for all your kind comments!

Aside from the Symington event tomorrow, it is also my 60th birthday. In the interest of providing a good excuse, might I invite everyone to open 'a bottle they would not normally drink at home' tomorrow. I shall be opening a '45 - first of a stash with no hard shipper ID, but 'believed Dow' - the v...

Recent encounters include: Taylor 10yr bottled in 1980 - loads of sediment and no sign of going south. Loads of cheap white wine - mostly SB or SB blends. Wade decanter of Bells made for the wedding of Prince Andrew, complete with fancy box - cost £5 at auction. The whisky was quite nice.. Currently...

For unfiltered a truthful message can’t be much more than “Can be drunk now, or in thirty years, or any time between (excepting 3am to 10am).” Would such a message be useful? I have previously suggested 'F numbers' that could be tucked into a corner of a back label somewhere: F0 being wholly unfilt...

Having only unfiltered LBV is just not possible Why? Seven years ago I had my own reserve port bottled, explicitly 100% unfiltered and a very rich wine. It showed no noticeable sedimentation until two years later - that is a light year in the world of restaurants and airlines. Supply lines are far ...

The no decanting argument strikes me as bogus, at least in today's market. The supermarkets buy LBV soon after bottling, get it on the shelves, sold and out to be drunk in a very short time scale - typically a few months. Very little is still around a couple of years later when the first sediment ap...

We have suffered the various incarnations of LBVs for years - some filtered or fined, some with T stoppers and some with driven corks. For a while it seemed that a driven cork meant unfiltered; T stopper, filtered, but then some unfiltered LBVs were given T stoppers and some with driven corks do not...