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jfacciol wrote:Are we going to whip out coffee filters, cheesecloth and funnels?

That’s what I meant. I can bring two funnels and a box of coffee filters. We need only to borrow one or two decanters and a faucet.

jfacciol wrote:more tempted by the 20 year old tawnies.

Works for me.

Ahhh, well found though there is a better link. A half bottle and a glass of Dow 1980 would do the job perfectly.

The new decanting plan:

• 4 hours: Infantado Vintage Character;
• Pop-and-pour: all others.

I have gathered 0 or 1 or 2 extra people.

DRT wrote:Use a whisky decanter. Same air-liquid boundary from top to bottom so volume irrelevant.

But different average depth = volume ÷ surface area. Can’t be too careful.

But what if warmth only affects wine if there is a large area of air-liquid boundary? Then temperature won’t matter for full decanters; would for nearly-empty decanters.

Refusing a magnum silly man.

Start time amended to 19:00 in most recent summary post , and MW deleted from attendees. Wine list seemingly devoid of port. Unless several bottles of our port prove undrinkable, we already have enough to stave off the most urgent symptoms of thirst. (Nine bottles, six people, time limited.) Anybody...

Tom, you need a too-rarely-seen piece of technical drinkers’ equipment. They go by the name ‟magnum”, and are jolly splendid.

But at the Cockburn tasting Miguel insisted on a longer decant for the oldies, and was right. I don’t know either.

What about a 12-year-old vintage character? Surely somebody can say something helpful about that?

Better to air on the side of caution Commendation for the pun assuming that you meant to substitute ‟air” for ‟err”. Look, in the past 4 days I've work in the neighborhood of 65+ hours...no Port...I'm tired, cranky, and don't give a rats arse about spelling correctly at the moment...then again, m...

So I see a BBC news story, entitled ‟ NHS alcohol services 'struggling' ”. ‟Struggling”, thinks I, using curly double quotation marks, well, the NHS has never offered me a decent drink. ‟Struggling”, quotes I, doesn’t get half-way there. The NHS is failing to get a grip on the growing alcohol pro...

So a central bank. that is, the sole issuer of some currency, decides that its ‘policy interest rate’ is now 4.50%, as a randomly-chosen example. (Doubters will be astonished to learn that there is such a central bank .) It now needs to make that interest rate happen: it needs to borrow or lend or s...

And if you should come to New York, an enjoyable weekend is assured, in matters œneological and æsthetic.

Andy V wrote:Better to air on the side of caution

Commendation for the pun assuming that you meant to substitute ‟air” for ‟err”.

New page, so a reminder of the state of play won’t hurt. 19:00 Friday 7th November 2008, Nick + Stef’s , 9 Penn Plaza at Madison Square Garden, 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue, NY 10121-0111. By bottle: 1873 Schofield ( FF ); 1896 ‘Refreshed’ Garcia ( AHB ); 1932 Butler Nephew ( ED ); 1938 Hooper ( JD...

Another bottle I forgot: idiot! But don’t get too excited. Porto Vintage Character Meio Seco ! Quinta do Infantado This high quality Porto was made from Organically grown grapes, respecting both ecological cycles and the environment. After a completely natural maturation in casks, 7.000 bottles were...

Overtired and emotional wrote:Looked as if 6-8 hours would be a good idea.

Very reasonable. Decant soon after breaking the fast. Don’t drink until dusk.

Better for the quality of public policy.

I recently attended a tasting with a great set of Madeiras, listed on this placemat . Which doesn’t help you. My favourites before this tasting were the two extremal sweetnesses: Sercial (allegedly dry, typically medium-sweet) and Malmsey (typically a saturated sugar solution), and Terrantez (becaus...

I’ll bring my box of glasses. Jay: I used to have two types of INAO/ISO3591 glass. Some with the rolled edge, and some with a thinner edge. They became muddled one tasting, and then my muddled set became muddled with your two boxes of rolled-edges. If you have the time and enthusiasm, please could I...

Is this the first reference on this site to these evnts? A month ago there was confident expectation of another bumper crop of city bonuses at the end of the year. Those expectations have now evaporated, to be replaced by fears of redundancy in the financial sector. No-one can be quite sure how the...

Philosophical question: If getting something wrong, is it better to do so in public or in private?

I’ll explain the context later, but this question is raised by a newly-suggested change in the policy of part of the British public sector.

DRT and jdaw1 have been away. It makes a difference.

Separate threads please, ideally with titles in YYYY HouseName format.

That’s not moral hazard; that’s insider trading.

A group has been created, New York tasters , currently holding ajrh , bob , differentdave , EricD , g-man , hwangs , jdaw1 , jfacciol , JohninNYC , mosesbotbol , Raveesh , Sean C. , SushiNorth , and TBird . It is for those who wish to be informed of tastings in and around New York. Hence: Add yourse...

Hello and welcome to JohninNYC. My powers of Holmes-esque deduction have led me to the conclusion that you might be located in former New Amsterdam. Wherein there are gentlefolk, male and female, with whom you might share an entertaining evening. Hello and welcome indeed.