Thank you Phil. I’m willing to do my traditional role, if needed.PhilW wrote:I'll take care of it, and will book this afternoon.
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Just for the avoidance of doubt, my attendance is confirmed for 23 September 2014 but as a matter of curiousity, what conflicting event forces the regular principals into such a declinature (or is it very 'secret squirrel')?
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They've all been asked to go to Buckingham Palace to inspect the annual purchases for the royal household.
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Re: 2014 pre-Harvest Tour tasting, London
Function room booked, for 6-8 people; am assuming that given our number we will be eating in function room, rather than needing a separate table outside.PhilW wrote:I'll take care of it, and will book this afternoon.
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Excellent, thanks Phil!PhilW wrote:Function room booked, for 6-8 people; am assuming that given our number we will be eating in function room, rather than needing a separate table outside.PhilW wrote:I'll take care of it, and will book this afternoon.
If there's room in the function room for 6-8 people to eat, then we might as well eat in there and save TBH the extra table.
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Excellent, we stand at 5 with a 6th who is hopeful. A solid quorum. Even more excellent is that I believe I will be meeting all in attendance in person for the first time.idj123 wrote:Just for the avoidance of doubt, my attendance is confirmed for 23 September 2014 but as a matter of curiousity, what conflicting event forces the regular principals into such a declinature (or is it very 'secret squirrel')?
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I think that with just 5 or 6 people we should keep it simple and do a "Bring a bottle to share"-theme.
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That seems wise, as with only 5 or 6 we might have difficulty sourcing a complete vertical of Ferreira from 1811-present.AW77 wrote:I think that with just 5 or 6 people we should keep it simple and do a "Bring a bottle to share"-theme.
Since I will be coming from the US and might have access to bottles not normally seen on the East side of the pond, do any of you have requests for what I might share? I seem to have rather a lot of brown sticky stuff in my cellar, for example.
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As the usual suspects are away, we could do a tasting of only the "brown sticky stuff". After all, you're organizing this event and if you like Tawnies best than that's ok for me.
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I don't fancy a tasting of ALL brown sticky stuff. Variety is the spice of life.AW77 wrote:As the usual suspects are away, we could do a tasting of only the "brown sticky stuff". After all, you're organizing this event and if you like Tawnies best than that's ok for me.
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I think a mix of types would be good. Have the attendees tried the 1952 Dalva Golden White before? I have a limited and treasured supply.djewesbury wrote:I don't fancy a tasting of ALL brown sticky stuff. Variety is the spice of life.AW77 wrote:As the usual suspects are away, we could do a tasting of only the "brown sticky stuff". After all, you're organizing this event and if you like Tawnies best than that's ok for me.
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Classy, Glenn, classy!
1952 Golden White is one that I think I have had only once, at this year's BFT.. What a beautiful wine it is. A bottle of that shared with new friends would be amazing.
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Re: 2014 pre-Harvest Tour tasting, London, 9/23
The wines at the BFT were the Dalva Golden White 63 and 71, the 52 is the one they didn't include, and would very much like to try; nice idea Glenn, tydjewesbury wrote:
Classy, Glenn, classy!
1952 Golden White is one that I think I have had only once, at this year's BFT.. What a beautiful wine it is. A bottle of that shared with new friends would be amazing.
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You're right Phil. In that case I've never had the 52!!
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Had the Dalva 52 in Vinologia a few years ago (sadly no longer available there). Lovely drop of juice although this does up the ante somewhat (though there is time)!
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CellarTracker appears to be out of date. It says I have 4 x 750 left, but I do not believe that is the case. I may have 3 left, and one of those 3 may be a 500.
At any rate, it seems a suitable bottle for Daniel's magazine theme.
At any rate, it seems a suitable bottle for Daniel's magazine theme.
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Do you want to add the theme to the title?Glenn E. wrote:CellarTracker appears to be out of date. It says I have 4 x 750 left, but I do not believe that is the case. I may have 3 left, and one of those 3 may be a 500.
At any rate, it seems a suitable bottle for Daniel's magazine theme.
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I added it to the first post. Thread title was too long and so not allowed with it inserted.djewesbury wrote:Do you want to add the theme to the title?Glenn E. wrote:CellarTracker appears to be out of date. It says I have 4 x 750 left, but I do not believe that is the case. I may have 3 left, and one of those 3 may be a 500.
At any rate, it seems a suitable bottle for Daniel's magazine theme.
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Re: 2014 pre-Harvest Tour tasting, London, 9/23
Oscar is planning a party to celebrate the restoration of foot treading at Quevedo, which sounds great fun. He has provisionally pencilled this in for Sept 23rd.
The date can be changed to suit, but I'm a bit worried about pushing it back, as flowering was early this year, so the harvest may also be early.
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The date can be changed to suit, but I'm a bit worried about pushing it back, as flowering was early this year, so the harvest may also be early.
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This complicates things somewhat. I would love to be there for that. But presumably he's not going to be able to fix the date till quite near the time. With various harvest tours already taking place and booked I'm sure there are those (eg, GEE) who wish he'd hold off a day or two..
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I think he's looking to fix the date now - my guess is that the 23rd is the optimal date to target, given this year's flowering date.But presumably he's not going to be able to fix the date till quite near the time.
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I can do nothing to change our plans as we are limited to BA's flight schedule. We can only fly to Porto on Thursday, 9/25 if we are to have any time in London and still make the Harvest Tour.
That's why I started planning for this in January.
Where is Oscar planning his celebration? If in the Douro, it probably won't matter as I doubt my schedule would allow anyway.
That's why I started planning for this in January.
Where is Oscar planning his celebration? If in the Douro, it probably won't matter as I doubt my schedule would allow anyway.
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In the Douro for sure.Where is Oscar planning his celebration? If in the Douro, it probably won't matter as I doubt my schedule would allow anyway.
Oscar has explained his rationale for choosing the 23rd to me, and I don't think there's much scope for moving it. We may have to settle for parallel events.
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Perhaps with video? Is there wifi available at TBH for that sort of thing?uncle tom wrote:In the Douro for sure.Where is Oscar planning his celebration? If in the Douro, it probably won't matter as I doubt my schedule would allow anyway.
Oscar has explained his rationale for choosing the 23rd to me, and I don't think there's much scope for moving it. We may have to settle for parallel events.
Glenn Elliott