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This post to hold arrangements as and when agreed.

When: Monday 19^th January 2015. Room booked from 6pm; start time 6½pm.

Theme: Fonseca, generally. The poll will determine whether sighted or blinded.

Where: Red Room in The Boot & Flogger, 10-20 Redcross Way, London SE1 1TA, tel +44 20 7407 1184 (streetmap.co.uk, maps.google.co.uk, bing).

People:

1. JDAW (F85 from an imperial);
2. AHB (F??);
3. MPM (F70 or F85);
4. IDJ (F??);
5. DRT (F85);
6. CMAG (F, “unknown year”);
7. CPR (F77 or F83);
8. AWGH.

Reserves (“highly improbably, but might turn up at the last minute if by a miracle is able to”):

• WPS (F70 or F77);
• PW (F??).

Current draft of the food order.

Current draft of the placemats.

As folks might already know, an imperial of Fonseca 1985 is to be opened on Saturday 17^th January 2015. If there were interest, a bottle of this could be set aside, perhaps to be tasted on Monday 19^th January 2015.

Might this be of interest? Perhaps the theme could be ‘Fonseca 1985, variously’.

I'm in but disagree with the theme - how about just Fonseca, generally?

AHB wrote:Fonseca, generally?

Works for me. But sighted.

Count me in. Why not blind? Been a while since we all guessed wrong!

flash_uk wrote:Why not blind?

Because I have already revealed.

Please don’t be shy about arranging a ‘Bring a Blinded Bottle’ in early January.

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:Why not blind?

Because I have already revealed.

Please don’t be shy about arranging a ‘Bring a Blinded Bottle’ in early January.

What about "Blind Fonseca", which means you can bring your bottle along blind like all others...

Poll added to thread.

Sounds good I am in please.

jdaw1 wrote:

AHB wrote:Fonseca, generally?

Works for me. But sighted.

A most excellent theme; I will currently have to be very tentative however.

Sorry checked my diary and I can't make Monday. Wednesday 21st works?

Yes please-count me for this. Blind or sighted, I don't mind. Have a reasonable number of different vintages I could choose from.

CPR 1 wrote:Sorry checked my diary and I can't make Monday. Wednesday 21st works?

Imperial to be decanted Saturday — no flexibility. So bottle from that to be drunk ASAP. Monday it is — sorry.

Can you re-arrange that meeting?



FYI:

uncle tom, by PM, wrote:Will be out of the country then - need to know about any adoption requests ASAP..

Hello,

I would like to come to this too. Will bring a Fonseca 70 or 77 if this is OK. Not a lot of Fonseca left at my house and the remaining bt of 80 was considered as inapropiate!

regards

WS1

I can bring a '70 and/or '85. For the '85, might be interesting to compare the 750 to a mag.

The only Fonseca I have at home is 1985, in the regular small bottles. Can I baggsie that please?

DRT wrote:The only Fonseca I have at home is 1985, in the regular small bottles. Can I baggsie that please?

Done. But there’s nothing wrong with an evening in which more than one bottle of F85 is drunk.

Please count me in.
I will have a Fonseca of an unknown year!
Thanks

Hi,

unfortunately due to work comittments I have to drop out of this one. Snief!

regards

WS1

PhilW wrote:A most excellent theme; I will currently have to be very tentative however.

my chance to attend is currently closer to zero than to 50%; I suggest moving me to the "highly improbably, but might turn up at the last minute if by a miracle is able to" list. Would have 70/77/83/85 options if a miracle occurs.

The heavens have been kind over xmas and I can now make this again

Looking forward to it allready....

I have a F77 or 83 to hand

I see both Alex and I have yet to show our hands for this tasting. Would a F55 be acceptable or should we try and restrict the range of the vintages (in which case I believe I have a F66 somewhere)?

I look forward to Julian saying, "please do not bring F55".

idj123 wrote:I see both Alex and I have yet to show our hands for this tasting. Would a F55 be acceptable or should we try and restrict the range of the vintages (in which case I believe I have a F66 somewhere)?

As, on this occasion, we are restricting it to vintages of or after 1815, a Fonseca 1955 would be most acceptable. Thank you.

(And you should vote sighted, as you’re revealed.)

Not making this event is going to be torture.