New boy from the country

[coqovin]

Greetings from darkest Worcestershire. I am a keen amateur with a love of port and sweet dessert wines. We have recently formed a small local wine group, av age 40ish, and had a superb tasting last night of Grahams 1970 , Fonseca 1970 and 1983, Cockburn's 1970 and the infamous 83, Gould Campbell 1983, Fonseca LBV 2005 and a long lost bottle of Cockburn's Dry White Port from the 1960's.I met one of your members at an auction in Stratford/Avon earlier this year where he walked off with the Finseca 1992 leaving me with only Graham's 77!
If anyone's interested I'll detail our findings. Mark

[coqovin]

How many posts to get to a 1955 port????

[jdaw1]

Wow.

Hello and welcome, again. You seem splendid.

Yes please on the tasting notes (‘TNs’). Indeed, we have a whole section for them. And please try to follow the YYYY Shipper naming convention.

I’ll answer the 1955 question in a moment, but observe that my 8860 posts has me at Graham’s 1970.

[jdaw1]

The list of ranks doesn’t have a 1955, but Dalva Golden White Colheita 1952 is at 3500, and Graham’s 1948 at 14000.

Also, for our tasting we tend to use placemats — as you will see if you come. Jolly useful. And the software that makes the placemats (HTML manual, PostScript code) is free!

[DRT]

Wow.

Indeed.

Where have you been hiding?

There has been some loose talk of a tasting being arranged at Hotel du Vin in Birmingham, which cannot be far from you. If that happens, would you be interested in joining the fun?

Welcome to

DRT (Derek)

[coqovin]

If any tastings are organised for B,ham/Oxford etc that would be great but even us country folk have been known to get up to Town if we have current passports!

[JacobH]

Oxford would be an excellent venue for a tasting, if it is far enough North for those who live in the Midlands, since it isn’t too hard to get to from London (and probably the Surrey / Sussex crowd, too). Otherwise do come to a tasting in London!