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Thank you, Christopher. I very much enjoyed this event and it was very interesting to taste these Vintage Ports 13 years on from when I first tasted them at the Quinta with you, AHB and others.

idj123 wrote: ↑

13:41 Sat 16 Feb 2019

Very gin-esque.

The marketing that I have seen is aimed at using this for Port & Tonic, so the gin thing makes sense.

PhilW wrote: ↑

15:56 Fri 15 Feb 2019

DRT wrote: ↑

15:09 Fri 15 Feb 2019

I would be too scared to describe my mother-in-law as "fabulous, but slightly faded"

Perhaps the Red Queen might be more appropriate in your case then?

More Olenna Tyrell than The Red Witch Queen

Posted on Instagram today...




I like the packaging

No chance for me I'm afraid due to half-term commitments. That's a great idea for Dirk: a wine called The Mother-in-Law. Perhaps "The Duchess" (a fabulous, but slightly faded LBV) would be more in keeping with the Niepoortland series; though I always hoped Dirk might add a Caterpillar-based port to...

Unfortunately I will not be in London on 20th Feb.

For clarity, is the theme "Bring your mother-in-law to a tasting"?

I paid GBP 75 per bottle (just under USD 100) last time I bought Graham 1963. That's the market I am able to buy in. Maybe I should be arbitraging Port from the UK to New York... Wow. I think I've got some learning to do. To be fair, AHB has been consistent in telling us that he has not been buying...

Some pictures from the organiser...

I've just thought what I can bring - a bottle of 1996 FG; 1996 being almost 1969. You now have 68 attempts remaining. Does this scupper my idea of bringing a 1960? :x Not at all, with the assumed justification of "it has a 6 and a 9 in it". There was nothing wrong with FG96 either, on the same basi...

Obviously I was not looking for someone who was bottom fishing. Seems like there are a lot of folks like that on the forum. As far as I can see no one on this forum has been in any way disrespectful to you. Your comments above are unnecessary. I refer you to Rule 1 , which is essentially "Be nice"....

PhilW wrote: ↑

17:58 Sun 10 Feb 2019

AHB wrote:I've just thought what I can bring - a bottle of 1996 FG; 1996 being almost 1969.

You now have 68 attempts remaining.

Does this scupper my idea of bringing a 1960?

awaiting decisions from DRT. What decisions have I to make? Deadline for reconfirmations has passed. Who moves to and from the waitlist? OK. One step at a time: Since my last update on 9th November 2018 I can only see one reconfirmation from Ben Read. JDAW, please confirm I have not missed anyone. ...

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

19:07 Sat 09 Feb 2019

awaiting decisions from DRT.

What decisions have I to make?

Yes please.

Yes please.

Quinta do Vesuvio - do they still do visits, if booked in advance? (I read a while ago that they did, not sure if this changed with the Bomfim visitor centre opening). If yes, then do they do lunch as well? As Vesuvio is my favourite house, this is somewhere I'd really like to visit. Unless you hav...

Christopher wrote: ↑

23:08 Mon 14 Jan 2019

for such an important event , I think a theme of British shippers is more appropriate.

Given the heritage and natural language of the monarch involved, perhaps we should allow a smattering of Germanic-shipper relatives to join the party?

I think the most impressive part of this experiment is that you happened to have a bottle of Tokaji lying around in that lab

Yes please.

I have often wondered what planetary accretion looks like. Now we know.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

00:06 Mon 31 Dec 2018

One of my TNs has a list, presumably of toasts:

• The Queen;
• The Happy Couple;
• Vintage Port;
• The Port Forum.

Can anybody recall whether these were actually done?

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

23:29 Tue 15 May 2018

The evening was splendid, the four toasts being made by our newest citizen.

"They say I used apostrophys wrong - fake news! Fake news. We have the best apostrophys, they just didnt understand what I said. Fake news, so sad." Is it childish to point out there's no "y" in apostrophe/apostrophes; or the missing punctuation in "didn't" when it's clearly a popular representatio...

Remind me, are we allowed to report posts by people who have American English as their first language or is this thread just for the admonishment re-educationof the native English speaker? The use of Americanisms should not be reported as they can't help it. Misuse of apostrophes and general gramma...

A very good idea for a thread