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- 20:47 Tue 21 Nov 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
- Replies: 108
- Views: 204780
Re: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - date tbc
Just to be explicit about it, I confirm for the 16th!
- 00:54 Tue 21 Nov 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 101 things to do with a Vesuvio bin label..
- Replies: 38
- Views: 64921
Re: 101 things to do with a Vesuvio bin label..
- 20:01 Mon 20 Nov 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
- Replies: 108
- Views: 204780
- 23:07 Wed 15 Nov 2023
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Croft, Tue 07 Nov 2023, at the B&F
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17924
Re: Croft, Tue 07 Nov 2023, at the B&F
I note that 1982 Croft was apparently so horrible that it was expunged from the voting records.
(Yes, yes, I understand that it was a last-minute add. It's still funny.)
(Yes, yes, I understand that it was a last-minute add. It's still funny.)
- 20:10 Tue 14 Nov 2023
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Taylors VVV - a complete vertical
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17266
Re: Taylors VVV - a complete vertical
I give them some time in bottle before doing my verticals - the one honoring GST 21 will be early next year, probably in March. I find that very recently bottled Ports change rather dramatically over their first year in bottle, and prefer to taste them after that initial change has mostly settled do...
- 23:33 Sat 11 Nov 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
- Replies: 108
- Views: 204780
Re: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - date tbc
Since this has revived, I would love to attend if held the week that I'm in London for the Graham vertical. Those dates would be roughly May 12-16, 2024. I could probably change either end of that by +/- one day if truly necessary, most easily at the beginning. (Current plan is to fly to London on F...
- 18:52 Mon 06 Nov 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Playful consequences tasting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26926
Re: Playful consequences tasting
Bottle #1: pop and pour at tasting, no decant. Bottle #2: splash decant into decanter then immediately return to the bottle. Travel to tasting later. Bottle #3: normal decant into decanter, return to bottle after an appropriate amount of time to travel to tasting. Bottle #4: normal decant into deca...
- 21:10 Fri 03 Nov 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Playful consequences tasting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26926
Playful consequences tasting
(yes, this statement could have playful consequences) Ahem. 4 identical bottles, preferably from the same case to ensure the same provenance. Bottle #1: pop and pour at tasting, no decant. Bottle #2: splash decant into decanter then immediately return to the bottle. Travel to tasting later. Bottle ...
- 19:16 Thu 02 Nov 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2105
- Views: 908162
Re: Latest buy
I can neither confirm nor deny this accusation.Mike J. W. wrote: ↑01:29 Thu 02 Nov 2023Lol. He's devious that way is he?Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑23:40 Wed 01 Nov 2023 Mike, don’t get sucked in to Glenn’s plan. He’s just trying to get you to set up a “Best of the Eighties” tasting that he can come to.
- 18:12 Tue 31 Oct 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
- Replies: 179
- Views: 503643
Re: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
I was about to email Glenn about perhaps getting together at some point next month, until Alex specifically mentioned the month of May. Yes, I know it's in the title, but what can I say.... The week after this tasting I will be in Portugal for a private "harvest tour" so we might still be...
- 18:09 Tue 31 Oct 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2105
- Views: 908162
Re: Latest buy
Yeah that's an excellent price for a superb Port. Its only real rival from the 1980s in my opinion is 1987 Taylor Vargellas, and if you want to stretch a bit then maybe 1985 Graham. For an otherwise down decade for TFP, the 1985 Fonseca and the 1987 Vargellas are beautiful. The 1980 Dow is very goo...
- 22:12 Mon 30 Oct 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
- Replies: 179
- Views: 503643
Re: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
I cannot change weeks seeing as I'm planning a 2-week vacation around this tasting. I plan to arrive in London on Saturday or Sunday the 11th or 12th, then head to Portugal on Thursday or Friday the 16h or 17th for a tour from Sunday to Sunday (19-26).
- 21:00 Mon 30 Oct 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2105
- Views: 908162
Re: Latest buy
Yeah that's an excellent price for a superb Port. Its only real rival from the 1980s in my opinion is 1987 Taylor Vargellas, and if you want to stretch a bit then maybe 1985 Graham. For an otherwise down decade for TFP, the 1985 Fonseca and the 1987 Vargellas are beautiful.
- 20:54 Fri 27 Oct 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Nice one
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4300
Re: Nice one
Clearly they are using boats as floating cellars.
- 00:45 Wed 25 Oct 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 1970 Graham, Wine Society Bottling versus Oporto Bottling
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4544
- 23:23 Mon 23 Oct 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Croft vertical, Tue 07 Nov 2023
- Replies: 138
- Views: 567880
Re: Croft vertical, Tue 07 Nov 2023
I rejoice at Glenn’s different experience and vote against including it in the line-up. I would send you one of mine if I could. I'm about halfway through a case and cannot recall any of them showing VA, which is something (unlike TCA) to which I am usually very sensitive. But still... not splendid...
- 18:29 Mon 23 Oct 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Vintage port & the adolescent lull
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6364
Re: Vintage port & the adolescent lull
That phenomenon has been referred to by various names. The one that I use is the "teenage funk" because in the past it tended to be most obvious when the Ports were in their teens. They'd come out of it right around 20 or 21 years old, which is one of many reasons that people used to do ho...
- 19:31 Fri 20 Oct 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Croft vertical, Tue 07 Nov 2023
- Replies: 138
- Views: 567880
Re: Croft vertical, Tue 07 Nov 2023
Unless my eyes mistake me I notice that the Cr85 is absent from the line up? It appears to be available on the retail market for £55. Should I group purchase? JDAW's call re: vintages/numbers, but I'd say yes. Julian? It’s reliably awful. That seems rather harsh. I have had it many times, and while...
- 17:37 Fri 13 Oct 2023
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Taylors VVV - a complete vertical
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17266
Re: Taylors VVV - a complete vertical
Very nice! I've been doing that with Graham's The Stone Terraces every time they release a new vintage. Next one, including 2021, will probably happen early next year once the Port has reached the US.
- 18:32 Wed 11 Oct 2023
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Tue 10th October - 1993s @ 30
- Replies: 11
- Views: 28507
Re: Tue 10th October - 1993s @ 30
Curious, indeed. Some day I hope to get to taste a 1993 Quinta das Liceiras!
Was the order of tasting as listed in the first post? That might have impacted the perception of some of the wines.
Was the order of tasting as listed in the first post? That might have impacted the perception of some of the wines.
- 01:37 Tue 10 Oct 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2105
- Views: 908162
Re: Latest buy
Yes, that's an amazing price for a fantastic Port. Well done!
- 20:34 Sun 01 Oct 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Bottles you never want to open
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16034
Re: Bottles you never want to open
Every bottle in my cellar was purchased to be consumed, but I admit that some are harder to open than others. Naturally, the high-end expensive bottles require something a little more significant than "it's Tuesday and I'm thirsty", but for the right tasting any of those are fair game. Get...
- 22:50 Fri 29 Sep 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: "Port Edition" Durand coming soon - and UK purchase possibility
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11585
Re: "Port Edition" Durand coming soon - and UK purchase possibility
Do the Durands always work on old bottles? I run into those bottles with the crumbling corks and the soaked, splintering corks. For what they charge, I just want to ensure that they do the job no matter what type of cork I would encounter. It's not perfect, but it will pull vastly more corks than a...
- 21:16 Wed 27 Sep 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port for sale at auction
- Replies: 366
- Views: 244085
Re: Port for sale at auction
Christie's sold 660 bottles (not a typo - six hundred sixty) of 1964 Justino's Boal V.J.H. earlier this year. 6 lots - 4 x 120, 108, and 72. Even if you drank one bottle every week that's over 12.5 years worth of Boal!
- 19:20 Wed 27 Sep 2023
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: A stranger traveling in a strange way
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15635
Re: A stranger traveling in a strange way
What a great story! I very much enjoyed it. Regarding DR Port... they're not as small as they may seem to be. The estate - Quinta da Levandeira do Roncão - has existed for a very long time, but was purchased by its current owners in 2001 and now sells wine under its own brand name. "DR" is...