
Tasting note catch up
- Alex Bridgeman
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Tasting note catch up
I've just caught up with typing up my tasting notes - the last ones I posted were on 15th September. As time permits over the next few days (weeks?) I have 100 more tasting notes to post. 

Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
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- Dalva Golden White Colheita 1952
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Re: Tasting note catch up
Is this an attempt to push Andre and Daniel from the podium of most tasting notes this month? Or just throwing down the gauntlet for the rest of us?
- djewesbury
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Re: Tasting note catch up
Face it, our glory was only ever going to be short-lived. Faced with a drinking machine like Alex, we are mere boys.LGTrotter wrote:Is this an attempt to push Andre and Daniel from the podium of most tasting notes this month? Or just throwing down the gauntlet for the rest of us?
Daniel J.
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Re: Tasting note catch up
But, as discussed elsewhere, you definitely beat him for length.djewesbury wrote:Face it, our glory was only ever going to be short-lived. Faced with a drinking machine like Alex, we are mere boys.LGTrotter wrote:Is this an attempt to push Andre and Daniel from the podium of most tasting notes this month? Or just throwing down the gauntlet for the rest of us?
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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- djewesbury
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Daniel J.
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- Alex Bridgeman
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Re: Tasting note catch up
That made me chuckle.DRT wrote:But, as discussed elsewhere, you definitely beat him for length.djewesbury wrote:Face it, our glory was only ever going to be short-lived. Faced with a drinking machine like Alex, we are mere boys.LGTrotter wrote:Is this an attempt to push Andre and Daniel from the podium of most tasting notes this month? Or just throwing down the gauntlet for the rest of us?
It's not length that's important. It's how much it gets used. I've seen mine used in a lot of unexpected places and by people I don't even know and who don't ask my permission.
Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
- Alex Bridgeman
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Re: Tasting note catch up
They have cleverly posted their notes in the German Wines Tasting Note forum, knowing that I will never approach their levels of consumption of these watery near-colourless liquid. Mine is a man's drink. Real men drink port. I can prove it. It says so in a book I own.LGTrotter wrote:Is this an attempt to push Andre and Daniel from the podium of most tasting notes this month? Or just throwing down the gauntlet for the rest of us?
Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
- djewesbury
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Real men do indeed drink port. But they're also sufficiently comfortable with who they are to admit liking refreshing, complex, satisfying Other Wines, even white ones. They know that they're men. They don't need to worry. They don't have wineglass anxiety.AHB wrote:They have cleverly posted their notes in the German Wines Tasting Note forum, knowing that I will never approach their levels of consumption of these watery near-colourless liquid. Mine is a man's drink. Real men drink port. I can prove it. It says so in a book I own.LGTrotter wrote:Is this an attempt to push Andre and Daniel from the podium of most tasting notes this month? Or just throwing down the gauntlet for the rest of us?
Daniel J.
Husband of a relentless former Soviet Chess Master.
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Husband of a relentless former Soviet Chess Master.
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Re: Tasting note catch up
Nicely put Daniel. But being a real man Alex will no doubt grunt from the shed rather than bare his feelings on this matter. Isn't the next category after port, brandy? I wonder if we have any heroes here.
I thought I caught the odious signs of booklarning on Alex. But I never thought he would have the temerity to raise it here.
I thought I caught the odious signs of booklarning on Alex. But I never thought he would have the temerity to raise it here.

- Alex Bridgeman
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Re: Tasting note catch up
Perhaps I should have said
AHB wrote:They have cleverly posted their notes in the German Wines Tasting Note forum, knowing that I will never approach their levels of consumption of these watery near-colourless liquid. Mine is a man's drink. Real men drink port. I can prove it. It says so in the book I own.LGTrotter wrote:Is this an attempt to push Andre and Daniel from the podium of most tasting notes this month? Or just throwing down the gauntlet for the rest of us?
Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
- Alex Bridgeman
- Croft 1945
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Re: Tasting note catch up
Hoorah! I am now up to date with postings as well as typing up.
Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!