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jdaw1 wrote: ↑22:19 Wed 13 Dec 2023 There is a draft of the food order.

Mike: guessed your main, please instruct re starter.

Cliff, Tony: please instruct.

Think you’re missing desert orders for myself and Alex M.

Same food order as Alex M for me please.

uncle tom wrote: ↑17:10 Mon 04 Dec 2023 …vanilla ice cream with gravy…

A Tom specialty?

Final glass after five days. Left under VacUVin apart from the last 18ish hours.
The faint nose has now gone and there’s an unwelcome bitterness in the mouth.
Overall, a pleasant surprise but clearly not one for the future.
The rapid decline once un-VacUVined was interesting but not unpredictable.

Printing done.
Bottles already in London.
Reds will be decanted luchtime-ish on Monday.
Julian thirsty.
Think we're all ready to go.

At approx +100hrs no change.
I'm going to leave the VacUVin cork out and see if another 24 hours makes any difference.

I have a couple of bottles of the Ste. Eufemia Special Reserve White left and can bring one if we would like to add it to the tasting. I have both the normal bottle and the flared base bottle. AFAIK those are just different bottling runs for different markets, not different Ports. I think that soun...

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑12:24 Tue 28 Nov 2023 There are several “Very Old White”s from Quevedo - from 1970, 1975 and 1981 at a minimum. I’d like the placemat to make it clear which one we’re tasting.

It is definitely the 1970.

The Quevedo White was incorrectly described in the original list in the first post, but now updated. It’s actually the “Very Old…” so amendment required to placemats. To be fair, it depends whether you're looking at the box or the label. It is really "Quevedo 1970 white", but due to regul...

The Quevedo White was incorrectly described in the original list in the first post, but now updated.
It’s actually the “Very Old…” so amendment required to placemats.

At +26 hours (under VacUVin)...

Nose has opened a bit, but only just. Some leather and wood now showing. Maybe some orange.
Mouth similar but with improved balance - alcohol less obvious now.

Holding up well.

Have just selected & stood-up my bottles. Will be bringing a fortified & a non-fortified.

Some bargains in the Hedonism sale - Vesuvio Capela 2016 at £75 and Graham Stone Terraces 2015 at £100. Couldn’t resist one of each of those. Plus a whole bunch of young Tappit Hens which are not compatible with my other obligations at the moment. Nacional 1996 for £465, and 1999 for £495 also feel...

Some bargains in the Hedonism sale - Vesuvio Capela 2016 at £75 and Graham Stone Terraces 2015 at £100. Couldn’t resist one of each of those. Plus a whole bunch of young Tappit Hens which are not compatible with my other obligations at the moment. Assuming you also resisted the temptation of the Do...

jdaw1 wrote: ↑17:39 Sat 25 Nov 2023

nac wrote: ↑10:43 Wed 22 Nov 2023As discussed, a different pattern for each of the wine groups would be good.

Done. Not loved by me.

nac wrote: ↑10:43 Wed 22 Nov 2023I've also added suggested abbreviations to the list on the first post.

Done.

Many thanks. I'll print.

Food order submitted.

Pre-starters at 1715 - with Champagne
Starters at 1800
Mains at 1830

Ian - your steak didn't specify how you want it. You'll need to tell them on arrival.

The first of two bottles of Offley Boa Vista 1972 offered to me (as part of a mixed lot of Port for not very many £) by WineOwners in mid 2023. Grubby bottle, but level into neck and no obvious seepage. Cork saturated but managed to get it out in one piece. Fairly heavy sediment, but less than a bot...

From The Times today...

2013 Dow’s Quinta do Bomfim Port, Portugal
20 per cent, Asda, £22, down from £32, until Jan 3

Has been expanded to 10 heads - IDJ and SCD now attending.

Could I have outstanding food orders ASAP please. I'd like to get the order submitted before next week.

First post has been updated to reflect statements of availabilty for 16 May 2024.

There are a few still to respond, but please note that at this stage I won't be adding anyone to the list of attendees. The maximum for this will be 12, but ideally I'd like 10.

There will be a reserve list.

The tasting will now also include the Taylor VVO Coronation Edition. Assuming 12 attendees this means £220 per head for the wines. I'm still awaiting confirmation of the 16th May date from B&F, but I'm assuming this is OK so could people confirm availability for this please (if you haven't alre...

EARLY I KNOW… but can I put myself down for the 2005 Wine Dinner as a place or reserve if places carry over 😀 I see that this listed as a future event and that will give me sufficient time to ink it in to the diary. My hope is to get into next years too but that is dependent on variables where as 2...

Julian (quite sensibly) suggested that given the volume of wine being consumed it might be a good idea to have something eat eat alongside the Champagne. How about we order a couple of the pigs-in-blankets and some chips as a pre-starter starter? I've been less than overwhelmed by the canapes we've ...

Need food orders ASAP.

The Xmas Menu.