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Is ‘double-magnum’ a compound noun, so hyphenated, or should it be an adjective and a noun, so non-hyphenatedly ‘double magnum’? Compare: • We drank three double-magnums. • We drank three double magnums. I prefer the hyphen, but am willing to concede to a contrary consensus. I guess if you drink th...

Will someone (Daniel?) film this historic match and thus preserve it for posterity?

I'm delighted to hear that you try more Italian wines.
PS: I think the wine is called "Le Poiane": http://www.bolla.com/specialselections/lepoiane.html

Astronauts sample salad grown on ISS:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stati ... ady_to_eat

I wonder if grapes would grow in space...

That's a nice little collection you bought there. Perhaps you should ask them if they also ship their wines abroad.
Did you also visit the Badie (http://www.badie.com) wine shop in Bordeaux?

This surely is a great wine-shop. What did you buy there?
Btw, here is their website: http://www.intendant.com/eng

In their current e-mail-newsletter the Wegeler Estates announced that the Queen was served their 2009 Wegeler Geheimrat »J« Riesling Sekt brut at the state banquet in Berlin: http://www.wegeler.com/nc/en/wine-details/wein/sekt-geheimrat-j-riesling-sekt-ba-brut-2009-ba-brut-750.html?tx_cagtsf%5Bback%...

There is also a 1976 Niepoort Colheita: http://www.niepoort-vinhos.com/de/ports ... .html#1976
It was bottled in 2004. You can get it for 75 Euros on the German market (shipping costs to the UK are quite low, so this should not be a problem).

At BBR's homepage, you can take a virtual tour of the warehouse:
http://www.bbr.com/virtual-tour-warehouse
I guess the thieves were quite grateful for this planning tool.

LGTrotter wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:

DaveRL wrote:Learning points from last year.

You will be offered a glass of sparkles. Decline.

I thought that it was a very nice glass. Accept.

I liked it too.
But I understand that it distracts from the main reason to go to the PortWalk.

The technical sheet says it was bottled in 2012:
http://www.quintadaromaneira.pt/files/t ... 07-ing.pdf
A local shop has this LBV so I'm tempted to get some (hence the research here on TPF and on the Romaneira website).

Further research shows that Her Majesty had a Stigler Freiburg Schlossberg Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) Weisherbst (Blanc de Noir) Beerenauslese with her dessert at the state banquet in Berlin. The vintage is not disclosed in this press article: http://www.badische-zeitung.de/ihringen/was-sagt-der-win...

I thought it would be fun to do some research on what Her Majesty will be drinking during her state visit to Germany. So far only little information can be found. But this is definitely one she will try with her lunch in Frankfurt on Thursday: 1953 Kloster Eberbach Assmannshäuser Höllenberg Spätburg...

Rozès also declared a VP in 2008:
http://www.rozes.com.pt/index.php?optio ... Itemid=231

See my TN here:
http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8039

Hurray, Daniel is back.

That's a good question. Perhaps it would be a good idea to wear hard hats when drinking a lot of port.

Made of 100% Moscatel in the Spanish region of Málaga. Bottled after 20 months in French oak barrel: The first glas: brown colour, smells of caramel and quince (the nose somehow reminds me of a 5-year-old Madeira), medium body, not that sweet, in the mouth caramel and quince, it's also a littly bit ...

6 x 2011 Niepoort Crusted
I bought a bottle each time I did my weekly shopping at the civilised supermarket. I will continue to do so until they run out of stock.

This sounds like a case of spring fever. Did you also take a smell at the budding flowers in your garden?

Owen, I'm glad you're having a good time.

There was an obituary in the local paper which said that de Oliveira made a living during the Salazar years by making port wine on the estate that his wife had inherited. I guess what the journalist meant was that he ran the quinta and sold the grapes to port companies.

DRT wrote:D+6h - this wine has developed a serious problem

Do you mean the decanter is empty?

I wonder if this is just the standard Fonseca Crusted that is released every year (this time with a bicentenary label) or really something more special to mark the occasion. The press release doesn't really give any information on the quality of the Crusted.

Andy Velebil wrote:way to uncomfortable.

I guess these were just the waiters planning for the night's event.

djewesbury wrote:Not at all. I can smell the future coming.

Or this might just be the smell of JC's exhaust.