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LGTrotter wrote:

Ghandih wrote:would you be willing to pontificate on corkscrews for me...?

Irresistible.

The Durand combines a long thread and the Ah-so thing. Surely a better bet than just the Ah-so? But rather more expensive than a free Ah-so.

My thoughts exactly.


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PhilW wrote:Did you catch the weather report on Wednesday, by the way?

That was awesome


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uncle tom wrote:Cockburn 1908 magnum..

Complete with original 1911 invoice and original bin label..

What a find! Any story to accompany?


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PM sent. Thanks for the heads up.


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William Wallace became the Guardian of Scotland there, thus allowing us to see Mel Gibson devolve into a anti-Semite on a global stage today.


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When I was living in Boise, TH VPs for 95, 99, 2001, 03 and 07 were all available at roughly $20-$25 a bottle at various points at grocery outlet over the 2+ years I was there. IIRC it's been a Sogevinous or Sogrape brand for quite some time now.


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Was this a cask sample or post bottling?


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I don't have a particularly wide selection in my cellar of any particular year, but '95 is probably best represented of any, simply because it seems to be very easy to find at very affordable prices. I agree that my favorites (Noval and Fonseca) definitely have plenty of life for the next decade, I ...

My only complaint with the Riedel glasses is they break far too easily. I had a dozen and am down to four after six years---all but one were broken without a drop, a few when gently hand drying. Lest you say I'm too clumsy, have broken hardly anything else in that span. I have only ever had 4, stil...

Excel is not unusual. CellarTracker is also popular. a big +1. Been using it for many years and it works great. Their new phone app works just great. It also is the largest online data base for storing wines and user inputted wine notes (which I take with a grain of salt). Highly recommend Also a b...

I sincerely hope that more than one person on this forum knows something about horses. Those are those tallish four legged creatures with the knobby knees, right? The ones that last had a useful purpose back in the time of the Pony Express? The ones that "accidentally" find their way into...

djewesbury wrote:I think I just heard that Fox have called it for Cockburn.

Where I come from, that's not really a reliable source of any worthwhile information.


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1983 is an odd vintage. It has a few ports that I really like (Warre, Graham, Dow, Ramos Pinto) and many that I am very happy to drink. I've generally found this vintage is priced lowe than most of its peers and as I result I've accumulated a fair amount for future drinking. I wouldn't describe it ...

Taylor 1985 at about 70 pounds Interesting. I wonder if anyone has any opinions about this port and how it compares with other 85s, the Graham or the Fonseca for instance? That sounds like a fantastic debate to have, shall we hijack the thread and hash it out here? ;-) Sent from my iPhone using Tap...

2002: Mother Nature was balancing karma for '00 and '03


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2015: It's not been made into wine yet.


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F85 is clearly the standout of the 83 and 85 wines, but I've found my two examples of RP83 to be very worthwhile, and at the right price (to mitigate the cork risk) the 83 Cockburn is impressive as well. It seems that the main driver of which wines from the 80s you'd like seems to be a less objectiv...

...But there was an awful lot of 'B' side ports..... And two days drinking Feist, Calem et al would leave me feeling a bit jaded with the 85s. But in the 1980's there was a whole lot of "B" side Port companies. This was the dark days of the Port industry. A lot of consolidation, large cor...

AHB wrote:I'm delighted to hear it was a good bottle. It's always fun to live vicariously through the forum, so thank you for sharing with us!

+1!


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My understanding is that "filtered" wines are often chilled to force much of the solid that is barely dissolved at room temperature to solidify and settle to the bottom of the bottle. Rack or filter the chilled wine and you leave the solid behind and create a wine in the bottle that has l...

Had an example of the '82 not that long ago and found the cork/neck situation a rather unfortunate design flaw. Sounds like this juice was substantially tastier than the '82 was as well.


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1988 - It being my birth year seems to be the sole redeeming factor. 1995 - Plenty of excellent, mid weight and mid-structure SQVPs at very reasonable prices. Perhaps even more succinctly: Great QPR year. 1987 - Hard not to enjoy, even harder to find. 1994 - Very mixed bag, not as uniform as adverti...

I was thinking said object would be viewed top down with a standard amount of liquid on top of it, but obviously that still presents issues.


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At the risk of sounding like I'm offering a ridiculous suggestion when I'm not trying to, this thread has me thinking back to the lake water quality surveys I volunteered to participate in when I was a kid. To test turbidity (effectively opacity), they would put a black and white disk on a rope and ...

AHB wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:...there is “a lot of variation in the saturation between each device”.

Does the level of saturation depend on how full the glass was when the phone was dropped into it?

Also depends on how long the phone was left in said wine


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