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by djewesbury
23:21 Mon 25 Dec 2023
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: This port is nicer than that one
Replies: 7
Views: 13968

Re: This port is nicer than that one

Thanks all and the same to you too. Hope you’re all nicely incapacitated by now!
by djewesbury
00:17 Mon 25 Dec 2023
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: This port is nicer than that one
Replies: 7
Views: 13968

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...
by djewesbury
21:19 Sun 24 Dec 2023
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: This port is nicer than that one
Replies: 7
Views: 13968

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...
by djewesbury
21:41 Fri 25 Feb 2022
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 2000 Niepoort Secundum
Replies: 5
Views: 2860

Re: 2000 Niepoort Secundum

idj123 wrote: 21:39 Fri 25 Feb 2022
djewesbury wrote: 19:50 Thu 24 Feb 2022
winesecretary wrote: 09:49 Thu 06 Aug 2020 In bottle I'll leave it for 3-5 years before cracking another one.
Can this have been the same wine, merely 12 months later? Time is a cruel mistress.
Look who’s back😊
… just visiting… hope you’re well!
by djewesbury
19:50 Thu 24 Feb 2022
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 2000 Niepoort Secundum
Replies: 5
Views: 2860

Re: 2000 Niepoort Secundum

winesecretary wrote: 09:49 Thu 06 Aug 2020 In bottle I'll leave it for 3-5 years before cracking another one.
Can this have been the same wine, merely 12 months later? Time is a cruel mistress.
by djewesbury
23:38 Fri 03 Jan 2020
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1992 Smith Woodhouse
Replies: 0
Views: 5387

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...
by djewesbury
16:11 Fri 20 Dec 2019
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Brexit Day tasting in Sweden
Replies: 2
Views: 6481

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...
by djewesbury
18:30 Fri 28 Dec 2018
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1963 Dow
Replies: 3
Views: 5879

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...
by djewesbury
18:25 Fri 28 Dec 2018
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: The Book, ‘Port Vintages’, is for sale
Replies: 93
Views: 61610

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 (...
by djewesbury
00:59 Tue 25 Dec 2018
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1963 Dow
Replies: 3
Views: 5879

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...
by djewesbury
22:54 Fri 02 Nov 2018
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: 2011 Horizontal - London, Sunday 23rd April 2051
Replies: 170
Views: 170036

Re: 2011 Horizontal - London, 23rd April 2051

Well of course I’ll be there. Can’t your man just check with my man?
by djewesbury
18:59 Mon 14 Aug 2017
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Voice of the Vintage (1938), Gaumont-British
Replies: 7
Views: 7739

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.
by djewesbury
00:49 Mon 20 Feb 2017
Forum: Other Wines
Topic: 2017 Clos de Trump
Replies: 2
Views: 8536

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...)
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by djewesbury
00:35 Mon 20 Feb 2017
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: The 10th Birthday, Tuesday 20 June 2017
Replies: 59
Views: 54424

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...
by djewesbury
15:35 Fri 13 Jan 2017
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port and literature
Replies: 263
Views: 123966

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...
by djewesbury
10:40 Fri 13 Jan 2017
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port and literature
Replies: 263
Views: 123966

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...
by djewesbury
12:28 Thu 12 Jan 2017
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to serve a G70
Replies: 26
Views: 18403

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).
by djewesbury
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: 77658

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.
by djewesbury
13:32 Wed 11 Jan 2017
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to serve a G70
Replies: 26
Views: 18403

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...
by djewesbury
11:06 Sun 08 Jan 2017
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port and literature
Replies: 263
Views: 123966

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...
by djewesbury
18:37 Fri 06 Jan 2017
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Tue 10 Oct - A Gould Campbell vertical
Replies: 150
Views: 106907

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 ...
by djewesbury
11:49 Fri 06 Jan 2017
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Tue 10 Oct - A Gould Campbell vertical
Replies: 150
Views: 106907

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...
by djewesbury
14:32 Sat 31 Dec 2016
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: The Barwise corkscrew
Replies: 2
Views: 5698

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.