Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
Reserve please have Calem Cockburn Dow Taylor and Warre
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Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
Oops.. - I forgot to include Noval on my list, which I have a very nice stash of.
I've never had the NN60 - sounds like I've not missed much..
I've never had the NN60 - sounds like I've not missed much..
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly - W.S. Churchill
Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
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Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
Attended being the operative word..You attended your fiftieth birthday event, at The Bowler
As I recall, they expected us to sit barely 1ft apart and there was an art exhibition taking place in the same room at the same time.
Did I taste the NN60? I don't recall doing so - but I do recall spending most of the evening standing for want of space!
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly - W.S. Churchill
Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
Which might be why we didn’t re-use the location. But I struggle to believe that a glass of Nacional was left within reach of Tom Archer, yet went untouched.uncle tom wrote: ↑10:13 Mon 18 Nov 2019Attended being the operative word..You attended your fiftieth birthday event, at The Bowler
As I recall, they expected us to sit barely 1ft apart and there was an art exhibition taking place in the same room at the same time.
Did I taste the NN60? I don't recall doing so - but I do recall spending most of the evening standing for want of space!
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Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
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Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
If possible, please could I be listed as an adopter (because I merely have a dubious looking Cr60 at present). It is anticipated—and hoped—that this situation will change between now and the event, so I’ll update the thread accordingly.
Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
There won’t be adoption; there will be a financial rebalancing.
Tom himself, rather than via me, will organise the costs and money (if only because he will bring most of the bottles).
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Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
My two penn'orth on the NN60: a good bottle is a splendid port with a distinct figgy quality: in my all time top ten ports. This single reference point was a bottle drunk in 2018 at a moderately significant birthday. But the current market price is circa 50 times what I paid for it (mis-described at auction, in 2010; a very pleasant surprise when it arrived), and about 20 times what it is worth.
Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
As “the current market price is … about 20 times what it is worth”, we won’t be buying NN60.
Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
This is Tom’s tasting, and he is the organiser. Nonetheless, as his occasional scribe I’ll note that, as remarked elsewhere, this is likely to be cancelled.
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Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
Let's not be too hasty - this bug scare has gone a long way in the last seven days, and I'm hunching it will go a long way in the next seven as well.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly - W.S. Churchill
Re: Tom’s Birthday 1960 Horizontal, Tue 02 June 2020
Hastiness has caused me, accidentally, to drink the F60 that was in London, and as my father is deep-isolating, perhaps the only one I can access in time. Oops.
Grave medical need, as I’m sure you understand.
Grave medical need, as I’m sure you understand.