OK. I have been steadily growing my port cellar over the past 9 months, however there are three big shippers of which I have yet to purchase any port. Can you name them?
I also own surprisingly little Niepoort even though I've drunk it as much as anything else. It's just harder to find here. And pricey. And when do you ever see decent Niepoort at auction?
That wasn't my question by the way. I'll think of that presently.
Daniel J.
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djewesbury wrote:I also own surprisingly little Niepoort even though I've drunk it as much as anything else. It's just harder to find here. And pricey. And when do you ever see decent Niepoort at auction?
That wasn't my question by the way. I'll think of that presently.
Yeah I have not seen much Ni at auction either. Until the N66 at the B&F in December I had rarely had a good Noval and so have not really focused on Noval. Sandeman is another that I've not noticed much of at auction. I'm also not sure it is my taste.
My question, after some deliberation, is as follows.
On Wednesday of next week, I plan to drink only champagne. Why?
On the 10th of February, I plan to drink only port, though off the top of my head I can't work out whether it should be a '48, or whether to try and find something from '49.
Can anyone work out the themes that will be on my placemats, and what unites these themes?
Daniel J.
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I think you asked three questions at once. This is quite unique and complex. Let me try: the occasions that you drink champagne and port are related to birthdays. Champagne for a female jubilant (I hope that's what you in English call the person who is celebrating his or her birthday) and port for a male one.
The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt know thy Port
I like 'female jubilant', I think it must be a heraldic term like 'lion rampant' or 'leopard couchant'.
In some senses you are right; but these are not birthdays and the beverages do not connote gender.
I have given a very significant clue already and urge you to study it more closely. I have another but I am not ready to give it yet.
Daniel J.
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January 21 seems like it should be a celebration of something, but other than the launch of the USS Nautilus in 1954 I can't think of anything that would involve champagne.
February 10 seems a little easier given your background - the debut of Death of a Salesman, which coincidentally is also the date of Arthur Miller's death?
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