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- 23:21 Mon 25 Dec 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: This port is nicer than that one
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19620
Re: This port is nicer than that one
Thanks all and the same to you too. Hope you’re all nicely incapacitated by now!
- 00:17 Mon 25 Dec 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: This port is nicer than that one
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19620
Re: This port is nicer than that one
(Ok ok I’m not a fool. Yes the F70 was far nicer, obviously. Had it survived more than an hour it might have been very interesting the next day too. But it was so fruit forward still, after 50 years. And here is my W84LBV giving me nice late flavours, spice, cedar, cigar box, as well as delicate ber...
- 21:19 Sun 24 Dec 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: This port is nicer than that one
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19620
This port is nicer than that one
It can now be reported that it is possible to find one port more enjoyable than another, even when that other has a very well-deserved much better reputation. This just in from a drinker in Sweden: The other day we opened what may have been one of the last Ayr-bottled Corney & Barrow Fonseca 197...
- 23:09 Thu 23 Nov 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
- Replies: 75
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Re: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
And on my birthday! How charming.
- 21:41 Fri 25 Feb 2022
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Niepoort Secundum
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3068
Re: 2000 Niepoort Secundum
… just visiting… hope you’re well!idj123 wrote: ↑21:39 Fri 25 Feb 2022Look who’s backdjewesbury wrote: ↑19:50 Thu 24 Feb 2022Can this have been the same wine, merely 12 months later? Time is a cruel mistress.winesecretary wrote: ↑09:49 Thu 06 Aug 2020 In bottle I'll leave it for 3-5 years before cracking another one.![]()
- 19:50 Thu 24 Feb 2022
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Niepoort Secundum
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3068
Re: 2000 Niepoort Secundum
Can this have been the same wine, merely 12 months later? Time is a cruel mistress.winesecretary wrote: ↑09:49 Thu 06 Aug 2020 In bottle I'll leave it for 3-5 years before cracking another one.
- 23:38 Fri 03 Jan 2020
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1992 Smith Woodhouse
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5466
1992 Smith Woodhouse
Exciting, for being the first port I’ve had for too long and almost the first wine I’ve been able to smell after a long dreary head-cold. There is no sinutab in Sweden. And also for being the first record of this port ever having been tasted on TPF. Very nice nose. Kirsch cherries, warm, a little ma...
- 16:11 Fri 20 Dec 2019
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Brexit Day tasting in Sweden
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6564
Brexit Day tasting in Sweden
DRT is very patriotically marking Brexit Day by flying to Sweden. While he's there he will enjoy the fruits of one of Britain's oldest international trade partnerships, the Methuen Treaty, by drinking vintage port. To cap the symbolism, he will be joined by Mr. Kneeshaw, representing the Republic of...
- 18:30 Fri 28 Dec 2018
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1963 Dow
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6020
Re: 1963 Dow
Not sure I enjoyed the (very well chosen) reference to Lucretius. A hint of smug schadenfruede echoed in his poem. Hope you're well Daniel! Then again, some critics insist that Lucretius is not saying that real joy is to be taken from seeing others in peril; rather that it is instructive and even e...
- 18:25 Fri 28 Dec 2018
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: The Book, ‘Port Vintages’, is for sale
- Replies: 93
- Views: 63397
Re: The Book, ‘Port Vintages’, is for sale
Book arrived in Gothenburg today. It’s in perfect condition, no shipping problems. Marvellous to browse through. I already have one amendment for second edition... Listed as “Maren” on p. 541, the photographed entry in fact reads “Waren” - that’s an 18th-century upper case roundhand W at the start (...
- 00:59 Tue 25 Dec 2018
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1963 Dow
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6020
1963 Dow
One of a very good Irish-bottled lot shared with Justin and Alex. I think the second I’ve opnened. Decanted 2½ hours At decant this had prominent alcohol, but then so did I. Drunk after pigeon, pheasant, roast spuds, roast parsnips, roast leeks, braised carrots, sprouts with walnuts and honey, julie...
- 22:54 Fri 02 Nov 2018
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 2011 Horizontal - London, Sunday 23rd April 2051
- Replies: 170
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Re: 2011 Horizontal - London, 23rd April 2051
Well of course I’ll be there. Can’t your man just check with my man?
- 18:59 Mon 14 Aug 2017
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Voice of the Vintage (1938), Gaumont-British
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7857
Re: Voice of the Vintage (1938), Gaumont-British
I see what you did there. I'm drinking a Negroni in Gatwick at the moment. Will have a look at this when I get home.
- 21:38 Wed 22 Feb 2017
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: The 10th Birthday, Tuesday 20 June 2017
- Replies: 59
- Views: 55113
Re: The 10th Birthday, Tuesday 20 June 2017
OK.. I'm onto it...!!
- 00:49 Mon 20 Feb 2017
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: 2017 Clos de Trump
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8735
2017 Clos de Trump
I'm pretty great on wine.
I'm making a lot of great wine.
Some people saying I don't make great wine.
Bad.
(Sorry, meant to post this ages ago but somehow forgot...)
I'm making a lot of great wine.
Some people saying I don't make great wine.
Bad.
(Sorry, meant to post this ages ago but somehow forgot...)
- 00:35 Mon 20 Feb 2017
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: The 10th Birthday, Tuesday 20 June 2017
- Replies: 59
- Views: 55113
Re: The 10th Birthday, Tuesday 20 June 2017
Have I missed this boat?* I was unable to commit previously but I discover now that I'm on annual leave for the whole of June, prior to terminating my contract. I have a couple of engagements the following week (speaking at a conference, pouring gargantuan quantities of liquor down the throats of ev...
- 15:35 Fri 13 Jan 2017
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 125431
Re: Port and literature
... I'd have murdered the lot of them, starting with Harriet. Rather a harsh critique on poor Harriet Walters' efforts in the 1987 TV adaptation. Personally I thought she was rather good and played off Edward Petherbridge's foppish twit better than most would have been able to. Ian Carmichael was b...
- 10:40 Fri 13 Jan 2017
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 125431
Re: Port and literature
That I am tediously repetitive I will allow, but I think this is the first reference to "Busman's Honeymoon" made here or indeed anywhere else on this forum, unless I am wrong. Which has been known. Good day to you sir! Gad. I stand corrected then. I feel sure I had discussed those unfort...
- 12:28 Thu 12 Jan 2017
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to serve a G70
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18841
Re: How to serve a G70
TPF is also a forum of many learned and scholarly souls, some of us frequenting the rarer, loftier realms of academe. We should probably organise a viva voce with you soon to check that you can adequately defend your research (into drinking port).
- 12:26 Thu 12 Jan 2017
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 77@40 from Magnum and Tappit Hen - Wed 1st Feb 2017
- Replies: 113
- Views: 78393
Re: 77@40 from Magnum and Tappit Hen - Wed 1st Feb 2017
Sorry everyone, can't make Weds 1st. Coming over on the 3rd, can't change that.
- 13:32 Wed 11 Jan 2017
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to serve a G70
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18841
Re: How to serve a G70
You should also make sure that you have been standing on your head for 15 minutes of every hour before drinking. And whilst you may want to wear linen trousers, these could impair the flavour of the port, in which case a neoprene overcoat can be adopted. Really, so few rules, and so little time to d...
- 11:06 Sun 08 Jan 2017
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 125431
Re: Port and literature
Dorothy Sayers again in "Busman's honeymoon" (not one of her strongest) has Bunter, Wimsey's valet exploding with rage when Mrs Ruddle washes and stands upright two and a half dozen of the Cockburn '96. The horror. Just for variation I am looking into a reference in Raymond Chandler's &qu...
- 18:37 Fri 06 Jan 2017
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tue 10 Oct - A Gould Campbell vertical
- Replies: 150
- Views: 108588
Re: A Gould Campbell vertical
B&F closes 10pm on Mondays. Is there a reason why not Tuesday? Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk Only picked a Monday as this is when we have tended to hold tastings. However, happy to slightly revise the date fort this tasting to be Tuesday 10 October 2017. On Thu 05 Jan 2017 the poster was ...
- 11:49 Fri 06 Jan 2017
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tue 10 Oct - A Gould Campbell vertical
- Replies: 150
- Views: 108588
Re: A Gould Campbell vertical
On Thu 05 Jan 2017 the poster was changed from djewesbury to idj123 , to give the latter control over this post and the title of the thread. — jdaw1. Ian: when a date is selected please edit the first post to add it to the title. I wonder what Schubert would have thought of the ownership of his Sym...
- 14:32 Sat 31 Dec 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: The Barwise corkscrew
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5810
Re: The Barwise corkscrew
I just got one for £7 from House of Fraser, so obviously I can now go and spend £118 at my local wine merchant.