What shall I put on Death Row next?
- Alex Bridgeman
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What shall I put on Death Row next?
Death row is currently empty, its sole occupant until this morning having been the Graham's 1977.
So what bottle(s) shall I put on there for my next drink. You can help to decide.
I'll run this poll for 2 days, at the end of which I may be getting worryingly close to finishing the Graham's and starting to fret if there is nothing waving to me as my next bottle.
Alex
So what bottle(s) shall I put on there for my next drink. You can help to decide.
I'll run this poll for 2 days, at the end of which I may be getting worryingly close to finishing the Graham's and starting to fret if there is nothing waving to me as my next bottle.
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
- RonnieRoots
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Table wine is for girls.
Royal Oporto 1963 - I agree with KillerB
Croft 1945 - I agree with Ronnie
Fonseca 1966 - you are not allowed to drink these without me, especially as I have two of them in my house
Vesuvio 1990 - you are Vesuvio Man and our main source of information on how each vintage is drinking - go on, you know you want to
Morgan 1991 - if you wanted to open yet another one of these you would not have put the others in the list
Warre LBV 95 - would be an acceptable alternative to the V90
Derek
Royal Oporto 1963 - I agree with KillerB
Croft 1945 - I agree with Ronnie
Fonseca 1966 - you are not allowed to drink these without me, especially as I have two of them in my house
Vesuvio 1990 - you are Vesuvio Man and our main source of information on how each vintage is drinking - go on, you know you want to
Morgan 1991 - if you wanted to open yet another one of these you would not have put the others in the list
Warre LBV 95 - would be an acceptable alternative to the V90
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
RO63: not worth saving for a guest; needs drinking.
Not quite clear how such an insurance contract would work. Maybe KillerB meant “ensuring†. (This muddle grates even more than prepositional endings.)KillerB wrote:thus insuring death is staved off for another year.
RO63: not worth saving for a guest; needs drinking.
- KillerB
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Re: RO63: not worth saving for a guest; needs drinking.
OK, OK, ensuring. I grant that there is no policy available guaranteeing Port for your loved ones if you peg it. I would like to claim a typo but i and e are too far apart on the keyboard, and I cannot be arsed with quotes for them either, no.jdaw1 wrote:Not quite clear how such an insurance contract would work. Maybe KillerB meant “ensuring†. (This muddle grates even more than prepositional endings.)KillerB wrote:thus insuring death is staved off for another year.
RO63: not worth saving for a guest; needs drinking.
I still say save the 63 for a useless birthday.
Port is basically a red drink
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May Day is traditionally a day of celebration. Today's newspaper reports the birth of cygnets in Dorset, traditionally heralding summer. I have summoned up the energy to mow the lawn.
What a fine time to drink in style. My vote goes for the Fonseca; so uplifting!
What a fine time to drink in style. My vote goes for the Fonseca; so uplifting!
It may be drivel, but it's not meaningless.
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- Alex Bridgeman
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- KillerB
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Hang on, this means four of us claim to have voted Warre and it has only three votes! I was the first vote on and I'm definitely on there. Conky has just voted and the figure went up to three. 10Anosclaims to have voted Warre, which leaves... ADV. Andy, did you vote or just comment?
Port is basically a red drink
Three presidential candidates
There are three relevant possibilities.Derek T. wrote:Andy is American - he needs to be told how to vote
- The maximum strength Fonseca 1966 (McCain): but does America want something gentler?
- Warre 1995 LBV (HRC): is this the time for a stop-at-nothing-to-win three-letter acronym, or is this merely the second product of a house dominant in the 1990s?
- The gentler Royal Oporto 1963 (Obama): I’m struggling for a workable analogy.
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I'm not allowed to vote anymore, something about being more Portuguese than American. They must have found out about all that Purple Sunshine I drink
ACutally, I did vote for the 1945...only because I was under the influence of above mentioned P.S. and miss read the choice, DOH!!! So edit that '45 vote and add it to the Warre's..thanks
ACutally, I did vote for the 1945...only because I was under the influence of above mentioned P.S. and miss read the choice, DOH!!! So edit that '45 vote and add it to the Warre's..thanks
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- Alex Bridgeman
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OK. The Warre 1995 LBV it is.
I assume that Andy's vote wasn't counted because it was suffering from "hanging chad symdrome" and wasn't being cast for the bottle for which we had told him to vote.
I may have a Mugabe style recount until I get the result that I want...
I think I might also get that space occupying bugger out and also stand it on Death Row next to the Warre LBV.
Thanks for voting folks (even G-man!)
Alex
I assume that Andy's vote wasn't counted because it was suffering from "hanging chad symdrome" and wasn't being cast for the bottle for which we had told him to vote.
I may have a Mugabe style recount until I get the result that I want...
I think I might also get that space occupying bugger out and also stand it on Death Row next to the Warre LBV.
Thanks for voting folks (even G-man!)
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.