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Right, as we're back to full numbers, it's 18 bottles again! The line-up is: Taylor - NAC for Team adoption Fonseca - NAC for Team adoption Quarles Harris - NAC for Team adoption Warre - NAC Martinez - AHB Vale Donna Maria - GEAG Sandeman Vau - MPW adopting from WillW Ramos Pinto - JDAW Smith Woodho...

akzy wrote: ↑21:10 Tue 17 May 2022 I realise there is space so may I put myself down as a very last minute maybe. Will have to adopt.

OK

Aiming to be there 1730.

Noted & updated! Thank you. Am hoping to be able to make it, though some family issues are making next week impossible, so we shall see (if I am able to make it, I might be able to bring a CrR97 - if I still have it, I'm not sure - which is perhaps conspicuous by it's absence currently) Am now ...

Anyone fancy a bottle of 44yr old beer as a warm up? An auction lot I picked up yesterday included 23 bottles of Burton centenary ale, a numbered limited edition bottled by Bass Charrington in 1978. I didn't price them at all but still won the lot.. Popped one last night and found it still in very ...

PhilW wrote: ↑12:04 Tue 17 May 2022

nac wrote: ↑11:56 Tue 17 May 2022 but possibly not listed in The Book?

It's in there.

Stand corrected.

So, without much effort we've admitted to owning about 30 vintages between us. Clearly too much for a single tasting, so as previously mentioned propose that this is done as two events. A simple approach is to do pre- and post- a nominal date to balance the bottles across two tastings but clearly ot...

Just acquired a few halves of the 1998 (£15.45 each from The Whisky Exchange). Might have missed it (and don't have a copy to hand to check), but possibly not listed in The Book?

Nothing exciting recently apart from an Enrico Santini 2001 Montepergoli (Bolgheri Rosso DOC). Drinking well, probably not going to get any better.

Printing done - including some bottle wraps for Zak and Ian.

I'll be finalising the bottles/suppliers tomorrow & advising of any adoptions and team costs. Will also do the food order.

Happy to print placemats, etc. Will print the bottle wraps on request. If necessary will bring some sellotape with me. Neil, With no printing facility at home, could I take up your offer to print bottle wraps? Meantime, I will foil wrap.Thanks. Where people need me to print, do they require one she...

Happy to print placemats, etc.

Will print the bottle wraps on request. If necessary will bring some sellotape with me.

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The book suggests the following Vargellas vintages: 1905, 1907, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1925, 1926, 1930 1934 ANOther 1937, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1957, 1958 AlexM, ANOther 1961 ANOther 1964 ANOther, IDJ 1965 AlexM, ANOther 1967 AlexM, ANOthers, IDJ 1968 NAC, AlexM 1969 SCD (maybe), PhilW 197...

As discussed elsewhere, a Vargellas tasting is proposed for mid-2023 early mid/late 2024? I expect this will be quite popular and we'll jointly have a lot of bottles, especially those from recent years. However, suspect that finding older bottles in good condition is going to be a bit harder. So, be...

@ nac - 'minor wines' from the 2000 Bordeaux vintage have been a delight since about 2005. I have long since drunk all mine purchased EP (Cissac, Tour St Bonnet, Tour de By (£55/dozen IB, sob), Haut-Batailley, Fonbadet). Interestingly MWH has a case of the Cissac 2000 for £420 (£35 per bt)... 2000 ...

flash_uk wrote: ↑21:17 Tue 10 May 2022

nac wrote: ↑19:53 Tue 10 May 2022 Some prices from Corney & Barrow today:

Graham - £468 per 3 in bond
Warre - £366 per 3 in bond

magnums?

Nope - bottles.

As we're now at 12 attendees with nobody on the waiting list , being reduced to 15 bottles. I'll update the list. Still unlikely, sorry. Might be able to do last minute flying visit if a spot still open at the time, but won't know until that week. OK - will leave you on the reserve list. Cough. Not...

Some prices from Corney & Barrow today:

Graham - £468 per 3 in bond
Warre - £366 per 3 in bond

The planner has been updated with known future events and given a general tidy.

As we're now at 12 attendees with nobody on the waiting list, being reduced to 15 bottles. I'll update the list.

A number of people won't be required to supply any bottles. As such, some minor movement of funds will be required.

forest26 wrote: ↑15:44 Mon 09 May 2022 What would you like from me?
I have....

Calem (foz)
Fonseca
Martinez
Niepoort
Quarles harris
Q dl Rosa
Nacional
Passadouro
Vesuvio
Ramos Pinto
SWH

Tony - could you bring the Smith Woodhouse please.

Doggett wrote: ↑07:39 Tue 10 May 2022 Regrettably I need to withdraw from this tasting. Hopefully a reserve is primed and ready to go and maybe Tony can provide the SWH so that gap would be filled. I hope it is as good a tasting as I am sure it will be.

That's a shame, but thanks for letting me know.

This weekend Chateau Grand-Pontet (Saint-Emilion) 2000 and Chateau de Saint Cosme (Gigondas) 2005. The Bordeaux, one of my earliest EP purchases (from Laithwaites STWC), has been drinking beautifully over the last 10+ years. Continued not to disappoint but strangely evaporated in the decanter and a ...