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Hi,

DrDirk is coming to London for year end and a portforum gathering is nice for a welcome.

theme: any port 60s or 70s would go
date: Tuesday 30th of December
venue: Function room Davy’s Wine House Holborn (formerly The Bunghole)
kick off: ~ 6:00 PM start.

attendees:

DrDirk
uncleTom
RAYC
JDAW
WS1

possible attendees:

Kurt
Shumin


regards
WS1



Current draft of placemats.

(Added to this post by permission of Wolfgang.)

Need to confirm i am in the country but am keen. I have a couple of 83s i want to try again - Graham would be my top choice

I would also be interested and am staying put for the holidays. I have a Warre 80 mag which i have lusted after for some time. This would be a good opportunity to open it.

I'll have to be a maybe. Between Christmas and New Year I tend to stay close to the family home and not travel in to London much - although this year will be the first year since 1983 that we will be celebrating New Year by watching the London firework and staying overnight.

I might see whether Mrs B would be interested in attending, but she's usually more interested in good food / Champagne rather than good Port.

WS1 wrote:DrDirk is coming to London for year end and I thought a portforum gathering would be nice for a welcome. As a theme I would like to suggest any 80s port would go. As a date I want to suggest Tues 30th of December hopefully in the Bunghole or Davy’s Wine House Holborn as they call themselfes now with ~ 6:00 PM start.

Probably yes.

AHB wrote:I might see whether Mrs B would be interested in attending, but she's usually more interested in good food / Champagne rather than good Port.

Could we find some champagne, half of which is to be our aperitif, and the other half of which is to keep Mrs B off her husband? For food, maybe we could order a Pork Pie from the UK‘s finest Pork Pie maker?

Would love to attend this but unfortunately it coincides with my daughter's 1st birthday and I don't think my wife would look too favourably on me sloping up to town to drink Port-ll have to make do with drinking it at home instead! Now if it had been the previous day.......

idj123 wrote:Would love to attend this but unfortunately it coincides with my daughter's 1st birthday and I don't think my wife would look too favourably on me sloping up to town to drink Port-ll have to make do with drinking it at home instead! Now if it had been the previous day.......

There is precedent: I had to stay home during a Malvedos Vertical. Waste of time — the tasting would have been a much better use of my time. Would it help you if I were to say that even the Boss admitted that I should have gone?

AHB wrote:I'll have to be a maybe. Between Christmas and New Year I tend to stay close to the family home and not travel in to London much - although this year will be the first year since 1983 that we will be celebrating New Year by watching the London firework and staying overnight.

I might see whether Mrs B would be interested in attending, but she's usually more interested in good food / Champagne rather than good Port.

Champagne/wine can be arranged as well provided the other attendees are OK as well.

Let us see how many we are and where the interest is; am happy to switch to a combined theme.

regards

WS1

I am in.
I just put two bottles of vintage port near my baggage for London. The rounded mean value of the vintages will apply with the theme: (1960 + 1991) / 2 = 1975,5 rounded eigthies. Yes!
Both bottles come from the same producer: one is an emergency bottle, one a recently aquired bottle of a lot of three.

Dirk

Sadly i will have to pull out, doing the graveyard shift feeding No.2.

Have changed my mind - will bring something from the 60s or 1970. Would also be happy with mixed theme and eating somewhere that provides a sufficiently refined dining experience to tempt Mrs B.

RAYC wrote:Have changed my mind - will bring something from the 60s or 1970. Would also be happy with mixed theme and eating somewhere that provides a sufficiently refined dining experience to tempt Mrs B.

We're due into London on 31 December but I'm working on the 30th so I think it highly unlikely that I will be able to make it into London for the 30th as well as the 31st.

Sorry.

But I could get you a discount at Milton's while there is a family member working there...

Hello,

apologies for the late response. Function room booked in the Bunghole. Theme extended/changed to bring a bt of Port from the 60s or 70s on request from DrDirk

Emergency bts from different vintages are allowed!

regards

WS1

jdaw1 wrote:

idj123 wrote:Would love to attend this but unfortunately it coincides with my daughter's 1st birthday and I don't think my wife would look too favourably on me sloping up to town to drink Port-ll have to make do with drinking it at home instead! Now if it had been the previous day.......

There is precedent: I had to stay home during a Malvedos Vertical. Waste of time — the tasting would have been a much better use of my time. Would it help you if I were to say that even the Boss admitted that I should have gone?

You should have!

Is this in The Bunghole or the Boot and Flogger? Has a table been reserved?

jdaw1 wrote:Is this in The Bunghole or the Boot and Flogger? Has a table been reserved?

It is the The Bunghole or Davy's wine house as they call themselfes now.

regards

WS1

Kurt Ma as a probable additional attendee - TBC on Saturday

RAYC wrote:Kurt Ma as a probable additional attendee - TBC on Saturday

Enrico may come too.......



We are getting there with the attendee list......

regards

WS1

Please include me.

done

Shumin Zheng may also come if there's space (Kurt and her came at approx this time 12 months ago (around Dec 2013 / Jan 2014) for Dr Dirk's last new year outing to London). She would drink approximately nothing, but contribute well....!

Rob: you have several bottles of mine. Please bring one as my contribution. (And would it be OK to collect two from you. Please email me with what I have.)

Is this event blind or sighted?

Let's do blind to start with - 60s / 70s gives us a fighting chance!

RAYC wrote:Shumin Zheng may also come if there's space (Kurt and her came at approx this time 12 months ago (around Dec 2013 / Jan 2014) for Dr Dirk's last new year outing to London). She would drink approximately nothing, but contribute well....!

added to the possible attendees

RAYC wrote:Let's do blind to start with - 60s / 70s gives us a fighting chance!

Hmmmm I fear you know already too much....

Looking already fwd to the event!

regards

WS1