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Achoo!!

Have fun in a very neutral place.

Once you've seen the fountain and wondered about the beehive, try a swim in the lake.

Not understanding any of the cryptic clues, I'm going to guess

Oliver

It is no coincidence that Ghahnhdhih and Waterloo are both appearing.

PS As usual I don't know where to suggest this, so I'm just leaving it hanging in a post scriptum in the hope someone will notice and cope: could I request that someone with The Power adjusts the names of these threads once the date (for sure) and the venue (maybe) have been nailed, so that occasio...

Cheeses for Thursday evening have been obtained and stored in the "cellar" with the port. We will be able to enjoy Wigmore or Waterloo from Minute Maid Cheeses in Riseley or Barkham Blue or Blue Chase from Two Hoots Cheeses in Barkham. If anyone wants a hard cheese, then let me know and I ...

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (they go up diddly up up, they go down diddly down down; up, down, up , down, flying around...)

How do I know the words when I was only 2 when this was released?

If possible I would like to attend as well. Since I have not been at the Bell before, may I ask how difficult it is to get there and back from/to London? regards WS1 It's not too difficult to get there - I think that Jacob did it by train last year. Getting back may be a bit more difficult if you w...

The Exorcist

I have some Croft '03 in storage. Now that it has closed down, I will leave mine alone for the at least 5 years. I might try one around 2014-5 to see how it is developing.

Alex, I can't really add anything to Tom's comments, but I wouldn't worry too much about the humidity levels of of the room where you store the wine. The key reason for storage with relatively high humidity is to reduce the likelihood of evaporation from the bottle or shrinkage of the cork. However,...

The Croft '03 is a great wine, but was closed down last time I tried it in January.

Without having tasted the 1991 vintage, I would have given completely opposite general advice to Andy. My experience of Barca Velha is that it is a big and long lived wine with the ingredients and components to live for a long time. But I guess that the only way you will know for sure is to open one...

Jungle Book

I did not buy any Capella. I did think about it, but wasn't that impressed by the wine and certainly didn't think it was worth a 66% premium over the regular wine. Plus the fact that if I had bought the Capella in the minimum quantity being offered (12 bottles) then I would have to miss out on one o...

I've just ordered a case of Vesuvio (OK, so who is surprised by that?) and will probably order some other shippers' wines later in the year. Exactly which, I'm not sure since I haven't had chance to taste all of the one I would like to taste yet.

Tom, You don't need to bring anything to drink. I am providing all of the bottles we will be drinking on Thursday. All I'm asking of the folks attending is that they bring a non-leaky bottle with them to fill the hole that will be left in my collection. While you are very welcome to bring something ...

I have a small ethical dilemma in front of me. Next week, a small assortment of UK based port drinkers are coming to my house to share some port. The theme for the ports is that they are all in need of being drunk, for various reasons - low fill, small leaks etc. All will be served blind, for the fu...

Carry on Doctor.

Oh, hang on. I was the last guess. Have to wait for someone else to go.

Yellow Submarine

I am very sorry for the length of this post - but Emilio Biel is one of my personal heroes and I am always glad when I can educate the public about him... :) And I had this text written for another web-page and just needed to copy and paste it... :) Christian, I am delighted that you put such a pos...

And if we get blanked then we can start asking more targetted questions - like "What is the oldest bottle of vintage port in government cellars?"

DRT wrote:

SushiNorth wrote:julian has some prewar/postwar formula

Which war?

Presumably the Crimean War knowing Julian's preference for mature vintages.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Christian

These photos are great and are really interesting to see. Please keep going with your quiz - I am really enjoying watching the people who know the quintas far better than me having their guesses.

Alex

I'd forgotten about our anniversary. I completely agree that we should celebrate it in some way and a virtual offline seems the most appropriate way possible. Last year's theme worked quite well, but I'd be very happy to support a much looser theme like "Open something for fun" where you c...