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A Taylor vertical, quite large

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AHB started a thread, seemingly in jest, entitled A complete vertical of 20th century vintages of Taylor. The conversation went downhill from there. But:
jdaw1 wrote:My UK stocks include 1912 1924 1927 1948 1955 1963 1970 1977 1980 1985 and, though it probably wouldn’t be needed, 1985 in magnum.
jdaw1 wrote:We’d need a long weekend.
Andy V wrote:Yeah that would be a fun weekend....if it ever happens let me know I'd fly out for that one for sure.
Andy V wrote:oldest taylors is a 1920 vp
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DRT wrote:It seems we need to identify a few more vintages. Here are those that I currently have at least some tenuous evidence of existence:
  1. Taylor 1863
  2. Taylor 1870
  3. Taylor 1872
  4. Taylor 1873
  5. Taylor 1875
  6. Taylor 1878
  7. Taylor 1880
  8. Taylor 1881
  9. Taylor 1884
  10. Taylor 1887
  11. Taylor 1890
  12. Taylor 1892
  13. Taylor 1895
  14. Taylor 1896
  15. Taylor 1900
  16. Taylor 1904
  17. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1905
  18. Taylor 1906
  19. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 1907
  20. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1907
  21. Taylor 1908
  22. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 1911
  23. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1911
  24. Taylor 1912
  25. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1912
  26. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1914
  27. Taylor 1917
  28. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1917
  29. Taylor 1920
  30. Taylor 1922
  31. Taylor 1924
  32. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1925
  33. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1926
  34. Taylor 1927
  35. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1930
  36. Taylor 1931
  37. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1934
  38. Taylor 1935
  39. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1937
  40. Taylor 1938
  41. Taylor 1940
  42. Taylor 1942
  43. Taylor 1945
  44. Taylor Special Quinta 1947
  45. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1947
  46. Taylor 1948
  47. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1948
  48. Taylor 1950
  49. Taylor Special Quinta 1950
  50. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1952
  51. Taylor 1955
  52. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1957
  53. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1958
  54. Taylor 1960
  55. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1961
  56. Taylor 1963
  57. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1964
  58. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1965
  59. Taylor 1966
  60. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1967
  61. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1968
  62. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1969
  63. Taylor 1970
  64. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1970
  65. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1972
  66. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1974
  67. Taylor 1975
  68. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1976
  69. Taylor 1977
  70. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1978
  71. Taylor 1980
  72. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 1982
  73. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1982
  74. Taylor 1983
  75. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1984
  76. Taylor 1985
  77. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 1986
  78. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1986
  79. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 1987
  80. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1987
  81. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 1988
  82. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1988
  83. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 1991
  84. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1991
  85. Taylor 1992
  86. Taylor 1994
  87. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 1995
  88. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1995
  89. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha 1995
  90. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 1996
  91. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1996
  92. Taylor 1997
  93. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha 1997
  94. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1998
  95. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 1999
  96. Taylor 2000
  97. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha 2000
  98. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 2001
  99. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 2001
  100. Taylor 2003
  101. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 2004
  102. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 2004
  103. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha 2004
  104. Taylor Quinta de Terra Feita 2005
  105. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 2005
  106. Taylor Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha 2006
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Axel P wrote:I am definitely in on this one. Who is wearing the organisational hat? We definitely need a frame for this tasting. I am fully open to everything involved though not being able to contribute anything else than some connections to the house and all the following VPs.

T: 83, 85,92, 94, 97, 00 full and Mg., 03 half and full
T V V: 00
T TF: 88, 99, 05
T V: 91 Half and Full, 95, 96, 05

I suppose we keep it on our side of the ocean???


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Now that we are to be serious, and following on from comments made by JacobH in the other thread, I do not think that this is a viable event in 2009 given that we have a Vargellas Vertical and the Taylor Fladgate v Symington head-to-head already planned this year. Perhaps one for a future year?
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Derek is 100% right. If this moves into actual planning stages then it would have to be sometime in late 2010 or later. I'd suggest right after the 2010 Harvest Tour as many of us Yanks will already be over on that side of the pond and it would make it much easier on us. Plus it would give plenty of time to organize it and aquire bottles.

But even with all of us, it will take a long time to plan and even longer to locate older and rare bottles. I would suggest that people start looking around and try to aquire some of these older more obscure bottles in case this moves to actually happening. I dare say an event this size would also garner the attention of TFP and I'm sure someone there would love to come and be part of something so large and complete. Lets face it, there has NEVER been a VP tasting so large and complete and their help would surely be needed to aquire some of those very rare bottles.
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[url=http://theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2605&p=22929#p22929]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:The vintages I listed above are located in the UK. Yes, this is a UK-located tasting.
In an ideal world this tasting would be organised at either the Taylor lodge in Oporto or at Quinta de Vargellas.
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RonnieRoots wrote:
[url=http://theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2605&p=22929#p22929]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:The vintages I listed above are located in the UK. Yes, this is a UK-located tasting.
In an ideal world this tasting would be organised at either the Taylor lodge in Oporto or at Quinta de Vargellas.
In an ideal world I would live in one of those places :D
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But shouldnt we at least try to. Maybe that is some tasting we should try to convince the Taylors side to.

My poor collection just got extended by a Vargellas 76.

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DRT wrote:
RonnieRoots wrote:
[url=http://theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2605&p=22929#p22929]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:The vintages I listed above are located in the UK. Yes, this is a UK-located tasting.
In an ideal world this tasting would be organised at either the Taylor lodge in Oporto or at Quinta de Vargellas.
In an ideal world I would live in one of those places :D
In an ideal world there would be a world-wide transporter system so that we wouldn't have to worry about it.

Since I would have to cross the pond to attend this event regardless, I think we should at least investigate the possibility of holding it at the Taylor lodge. And possibly also getting TFP's assistance in acquiring bottles. After the smashing success of the Cockburn's vertical, I would that that TFP would be interested in actively helping any future endeavors.

And yes, you may assume this means I'm interested in attending. :wink:
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Hello all,

Taylor was, until Fonseca hove into view at the F-Plan tasting, my favouritest port, so I would very much like to be on the list of eager attendees. I also have more Taylor than any other port, having been given several bottles of T85 as wedding presents. However, we did promise we'd drink that with the folk who bought it for us, so I'm probably in the market for sponsoring a bottle.

It would make things easier for me if we held the tasting in the UK - and would mean we don't have to try to transport most of the ports to foreign climes. I like the idea of lining it up shortly after the harvest, to assist the attendance of our American friends. Can we tentatively agree an Autumn 2010 date in the UK?

As to the format itself, I initially struggled to understand how we could organise a really deep tasting, since this implies bottles from a large number of years, which suggests a large number of attendees to drink it all, which means each bottle has to stretch a long way and we only get a thimble-full. The best way to combat that is to double-up (or more) on each bottle, so that we have enough of each port for the number of people attending (although it may mean we each have more port to drink than we can manage, if that's possible?). One alternative is to split the rarer vintages, so, perhaps, I get to taste the TQdV1905 but not the TQdV1907, and vice versa for you. Are there other alternatives?

In order to move this forward, I suggest we need to build next to Derek's catalogue of ports how many of each we have between us. That will help us figure how many vintages we may be able to gather, and so how many people ought attend, and so what calibre of venue we might require.

Does that make sense?


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Ghandih wrote:As to the format itself, I initially struggled to understand how we could organise a really deep tasting, since this implies bottles from a large number of years, which suggests a large number of attendees to drink it all, which means each bottle has to stretch a long way and we only get a thimble-full.
Fourteen people. Multiple sessions. Afternoon and evening every day for however many days it takes. Probably eight sessions of 13 or 14 per session.
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I agree with JDAW's proposed format. Maximum of 14 people per bottle, multiple tasting sessions although I suspect that any extended series of tastings would also mean the 14 people would be different from session to session.

Compiling the list of available vintage would be more of a challenge. If it's one you would be willing to take on, the best way to go about this would be in private, using PM or email.
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Hi there,

I am also interested in this event, however I do not own a lot of Taylors Port (55 and 03, VV 00 and 04, Vargellas 91 and TF 99). Please count me in if still possible. Overall I would like also to warn in advance that this maybe stretching it. Despite I accept the heavy disagreement of DRT and JDAW1 in advance in probably claiming pints of beer would help to refreshen the reflexes in case of tiredness of the palate and the organic bit called body :) I would be still worried about the magnitude :roll: .

Despite it is not strictly port related the biggest tasting I went in my life was a 100 bts of Chateauneuf du Pape tasting before 1979 (inclusive). We started with the oldest wines up to 1950 and then had as a second flight wines from 1950 onwards to the 1970s. All wines of the supposed star vinatge 1978 were kept in a separate flight. The remaining vintages were split accordingly into flights. The tasting was split over two weekends starting Friday evening with Saturday afternoon and evening session. Overall it became a marathon after the organiser thought it also would be a good idea to add another 136 wines ( out of 2005, 2006 and 2007) in a walk through tasting on one of the sunday's afternoon to taste the difference in the making of the young wines vs the "oldies".
To try ~100 Ports in probably 6 flights (if I understood correctly) would mean to start the tasting on friday afternoon and be finished by sunday late night. May I suggest instead to limit the bts to a huge number (tasting still very large) but being a more realistic number and stop e.g. at the 1980 vintage? This would also nicly splitting the younger Ports from the old ones.
Please see this not as someone trying to spoil an excellent idea. See it rather as the contribution of someone who coorganised the 1970 vertical (35 Ports) and experienced the tiredness of going through hundreds of wines. Ports will be even harder. Despite its appeal 88) I feel we should not overdo it.
Also an additional walk through tasting of young vintage ports (maybe 2008s) after the official tasting following the idea of my friend with the Chateauneufs I would strongly reject as being too self destructive. :lol:

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http://medgadget.com/archives/2006/03/b ... ial_l.html good thing they're making progress!
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So, what will it be. Just discussion or shall we move on to a more serious step. I will see my Taylors contact next week after the tasting in Oporto. Shall I put on the topic to see how the reaction will be?

Topic: Tasting of all available Taylors VP
Timeframe: October 2010
People attending: 14 (however we have to leave 1-2 spaces to someone from Taylors, I assume)

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People:
  1. Taylor-Fladgate representative (1);
  2. Taylor-Fladgate representative (2);
  3. jdaw1;
  4. DRT;
  5. Andy V;
  6. Axel P;
  7. Glenn E.;
  8. Ghandih;
  9. AHB;
  10. WS1;
  11. JacobH;
  12. marc j.;
  13. VJR.
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If this is suddenly becoming a serious suggestion, might I be added to the list?
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If there are any openings I'd be interested in attending as well. I do have quite a few older Taylor bottlings that I'd be able to bring to the table as well.

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Good grief :shock: - I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the sheer depth of this lineup. OK, it's still on the drawing board, but
if this tasting materialises, I'd absolutely love to attend it... has the character of a "once-in-a-ifetime" tasting. :mrgreen:
No great revelation, as one of the most consistent houses, I belong to the Taylor fanclub.
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We recently discovered that the autumn 2010 slot was double-booked, not including this. 55@55 was given priority; with the big rectangular being moved to autumn 2011.

Decisions, decisions. Choose one of: autumn 2012; the Americans visit more often; we do it without most of them.
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Two major tastings a year seems to work well, say Autumn (October, to acommodate our American cousins) and Spring (say March, to accommodate Uncle Tom). I would love to see this as a Spring tasting in 2011 or as the Autumn tasting for 2012.
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Wait -- sorry to be a little late to the party on this one, but why aren't we doing this in 2010?!

Seems like a wonderful year for such a tasting.
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Chris,

The 55 @ 55 tasting must take place in 2010 or it would be inappropriately named.
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ahh -- thanks for bringing this to my attention.
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