A 1970 horizontal, Flight 5, Thurs 8 October 2020

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A 1970 horizontal, Flight 5, Thurs 8 October 2020

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The 1970 vintage is 50 years old this year. Birthday celebrations are required.

What: 1970, Flight 5
When: Thurs 8 October 2020
Where: The Red Room, The Boot & Flogger (Google maps)
Timing: 18:00 for 18:30

Please note: preference for attendance will be given to people who are able to provide bottles from Tier 3. Which means some of those currently in places 1-14 might get bumped because someone in reserve has a bottle to offer.
Also, depending on our ability to collectively source the bottles across all tiers, it might happen that the Thursday is cancelled, because we don't collect enough bottles to make it worthwhile, in which case we'll squeeze what we have into Friday.

Links to help organise: suggested tiers, Flights 1-4 thread
People:
[this list is based on the initial soundings for those interested in tasting the Tier 3 ports. Confirmations will be made in this thread.]
  1. MPM (confirmed)
  2. JDAW (confirmed)
  3. GEAG (confirmed) [Fd]
  4. NAC (confirmed) [RO]
  5. PW (confirmed) [H]
  6. TC (confirmed) [BI, SJ]
  7. IDJ (confirmed) [Br]
  8. DRL (confirmed)
  9. CPR (confirmed) [Dl]
  10. MC (confirmed)
  11. AHB (confirmed)
  12. hadge (confirmed)
  13. THRA (confirmed) [ROC]
  14. Jörgen (confirmed) [DH, Fs, Fl, HR, Lp, Fi, FM, Rc]
  15. Sten (confirmed)
  16. Stefan (confirmed)
  17. AP (confirmed) [A, Sb, Tp]
Reserves
  1. SCD (confirmed)
  2. DG (confirmed)
People who couldn't make the date
  1. DRT
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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I confirm I should like to attend, subject to an inadequate number of those further up the primary list also wishing to attend.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Confirmed.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Yes please, will need to adopt though. Many thanks!
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Sorry, I can't make those dates.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Works for me. And thank you.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Date works - consider me confirmed - Thank you for all the effort organising
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Works for me - thank you for organising!
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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And confirmed for this also.
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I, Sten and Stefan are interested in attending. // JB
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Confirmed
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Confirmed. Thank you.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Confirmed...but accept I will most likely be replaced as I am unlikely to have a bottle to offer for this part of the tasting.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Confirmed, subject to being able to provide a tier 3 bottle.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Tier 3, Thurs 8 October 2020

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This is going to be a challenge to put this together - the saving grace is that it will only need to be one bottle.

At the moment from Tier 3 - I have Royal Oporto, Dalva, Santos Junior and Borges. I'll put them aside as I suspect they will be adopted. I'll keep an eye out for any others.
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forest26 wrote: 10:13 Fri 31 Jan 2020I have Royal Oporto, Dalva, Santos Junior and Borges. I'll put them aside as I suspect they will be adopted. I'll keep an eye out for any others.
Thank you.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Flight 5, Thurs 8 October 2020

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I have Hutchison and Barros of the tier 3 Ports. Mike, would it be helpful to paste the list of the tier 3 Ports into the top of this thread so that we can more readily view?
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idj123 wrote: 08:02 Sat 01 Feb 2020 I have Hutchison and Barros of the tier 3 Ports. Mike, would it be helpful to paste the list of the tier 3 Ports into the top of this thread so that we can more readily view?
Thanks Ian. Have added a link in the top post to get to the list of shippers in tiers.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Flight 5, Thurs 8 October 2020

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I have Feuerheerd 1970.
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winesecretary wrote: 18:33 Sat 01 Feb 2020 I have Feuerheerd 1970.
Excellent - many thanks.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Flight 5, Thurs 8 October 2020

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Looking for something else on t'Internet and came across this...

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auct ... 19010a65bd

Looks like another 1970 that it's unlikely we'll be able to find.

Was this missed from the original list or is it something else?
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Flight 5, Thurs 8 October 2020

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nac wrote: 14:17 Wed 05 Feb 2020 Looking for something else on t'Internet and came across this...

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auct ... 19010a65bd

Looks like another 1970 that it's unlikely we'll be able to find.

Was this missed from the original list or is it something else?
Interesting find! Indeed looks like another one for the list, but nobody has it. Also noticed that one was on offer at Cheffin's in December as well.
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Flight 5, Thurs 8 October 2020

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I have the following tier 3/flight 5 bottles:
Andresen
Borges
Dalva
Diez
Feist
Feuerheerd
Hunt
Maia
Martins
Quinta do Sibio

and in addition, not on the list: C. da Silva
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Re: A 1970 horizontal, Flight 5, Thurs 8 October 2020

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JB vintage wrote: 16:25 Sun 09 Feb 2020Hunt
Hunt Roope? = Tuke Holdsworth?
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jdaw1 wrote: 18:48 Sun 09 Feb 2020
JB vintage wrote: 16:25 Sun 09 Feb 2020Hunt
Hunt Roope? = Tuke Holdsworth?
It might or might not be, you never know in Porto. It is the same company- but to know if it is the same juice inside the bottle you have to ask a port wine expert.
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