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You seem to have died at my 31st birthday Derek, coincidence? [que twilight zone theme song]

Hang on, I just noticed Alex B is a wrestler as well: showdown time!

I also seem to have got me some tattoos and piercings - must have been in the aftermath of a seriously good offline!..

Well, I never knew I was a show wrestler from Germany...click!

Have you also noticed that there is a link to this forum on the site of ROCAwijnen? Check the links section!

The owner of infoportwine.com contacted Ronnie and me to inform him about this site. The text posted on his site is more or less Ronnie's reply to him.

KillerB: now that brings back memories!

They are indeed quite rare. I think we paid 200 Euros for this bottle, which I still think was a very good price.

Tsunami is a guy from Switserland who posts on the WineSpectator forums. The TNs of the Garrafeira were from an offline with him and the Roots' that lasted three days.

Here is my TN for the '52 - this one was bottled 1955, decanted 1984 and tasted in April 2004: Niepoort 1952 Garrafeira Port : lighter and more brown than the Graham's ’55. Nose: nice! Sweet for sure: molasses and caramel. Rich, very rich and full bodied. Sweet, with chocolate and prunes. Smooooooot...

Now THAT'S an offline - well done Alan!

I do not see it as a lesser type of VP - IMHO, many "Portuguese" houses have always produced VPs that mature more rapidly as their "British" cousins do. No idea as to how to produce this, however - perhaps using riper grapes and not treading them as much, in order to reduce the a...

Great notes, and I especially like the pictures of those expertly tonged bottles!

Nice line-up; pity about those off bottles. However, I'm sure that they did not distract you all from having a great time!

Come on, at least give us a list of what was poured!

I'd be happy to help as well. Not sure whether the BB-software allows for it, but perhaps it is possible to have a new member type some sort of verification code whilst signing up? You know, an image showing "tYPe This". That should weed out the spam robots...I think...

Thanks for the tip Ronnie! Let's see what I can find in Amsterdam...

Ronnie! Great to see you here as well! Have you heard of this drink called Port & Tonic? Not bad at all - give it a try...even Maartje might like it! 8)

Consider it done, Ronnie.

I'm in as well - when do we do this?

Alan, I would have thought you'd know style when see it...oh well: black jacket, white tie, white shirt - she's eagerly waiting under an avocado tree for the next flight of Port corks to appear.

You'd rate supermarket LBV above Bin 27?!

Tasted 1-03: From half bottle. A struggle to open; my living room is now covered with small pieces of wax. A large cork for a half bottle, which oddly enough wasn’t branded with Kopke. Anyway, how does this baby taste? Very dark, almost purple heart, with a ruby rim. Nose opened up after an hour and...

Tasted 31.08.2004: Bought the day of the tasting and double decanted in the store I bought it from 3 hours before tasting it non-blind (for me, the Roots only knew it was a ’87 and not the Guimaraens or Kopke). Much darker than the Ferreira. Very dark, almost black, with only a bit of pink on the th...

1978 Fonseca Guimaraens Qta. d. Cruzeiro VP Tasted 17.10.2004: decanted some 4 hours in advance. Rather dark, but mature looking. Alcoholic on the nose, with a strong leather component and sweet red fruits. The medium to thick body also shows loads of leather, brown sugar and strawberry. Very hot a...