Roy is very relaxed about this forum and visits it from time to time. As he explained it to me, he sees the "audience" for this forum to be very different to that of FTLOP, this one being very much more informal compared to the sharp focus on port / madeira that he is trying to maintain on FTLOP.
Do you still think he's ambivilant towards this site. Yet again I'll give the benefit of the doubt, and say it was because of a lack of professional curtesy, in NOT asking first, but you did give the impression...
Great! Another thing: since LadyR will be busy during the daytime I'm in need of good suggestions for daytime spending (read: wine shopping) Any good addresses that I shouldn't miss? TIA!
Most definitely Berry Brothers - but I'm sure they were on your list already anyway. I also like to pop into Harvey Nichols and Harrods to have a laugh at their wine prices - but last time I did that I ended up walking out of Harvey Nicks with several bottles and impressed that some of their prices (especially on their own label wines) were quite impressive.
July 19th is also the date of Christie's last wine sale of the Season in St James - about a 5 minute walk from Berry Brothers. You could have several hours of endless fun and end up with no money at all if you wanted to.
I also quite like a little shop in Soho that I found. No idea what it's called (The Soho Wine Shop perhaps?) or where it is but it has a remarkably good selection of top wines at only slightly unreasonable prices. Plus there's Oddbin Fine Wines near St Pauls and Davy's Wine Shop in Wapping. There must be others but that should keep you busy for a while.
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
Roy is very relaxed about this forum and visits it from time to time. As he explained it to me, he sees the "audience" for this forum to be very different to that of FTLOP, this one being very much more informal compared to the sharp focus on port / madeira that he is trying to maintain on FTLOP.
Do you still think he's ambivilant towards this site. Yet again I'll give the benefit of the doubt, and say it was because of a lack of professional courtesy, in NOT asking first, but you did give the impression...
Alan
I am still convinced that Roy is ambivalent to this site. I've exchanged a couple of messages about what he did and I know he's also exchanged emails with Alex K. I don't think Roy sees this site as a threat to what he is trying to achieve and having seen the way your tasting note on the Morgan '91 deteriorated I think he's probably right - different forums for different audiences.
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
I'm pretty sure that you are invited - I think it was a general invitation to all on this forum and a few others.
The arrangements are not 100% firm and are being organised by Alex K but the gist of it is that we will meet in the late afternoon / early evening of July 18 at the Crusting Pipe in Covent Garden.
There we will share port, exchange wonderful conversation and be awed by Lady Roots great (and prize-winning) tasting abilities.
Well, the sharing port bit's a dead cert.
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
I will probably bring two ports as I don't have much non-port these days. I'm thinking of trying to dig out my last bottle of Quarles Harris 1977 plus something else (maybe a Cockburn 1983?) plus a bottle of Cruz 1989 Vintage Port from Morrisons, if they still have some in stock.
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
Croft
Croft (Lord Lucan or was it Lichfield )
Fonseca
Graham's
Taylor
Here are some alternatives that might fit in better with what others are offering:
Dow's 1970
Royal Oporto 1970
Smith Woodhouse 1977
Gould Campbell 1983
Happy to take requests.
Derek
Other possibilities are:
Warre's 1960
Cockburn's 1960
Cockburn's 1967
Please shout if you want any of the above wines to be in cluded in the line-up for whatever reason. Especially if the reason is that you have never tasted it
Derek
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"The first duty of Port is to be red" Ernest H. Cockburn
Oh well, I've been scurrying away, working out Trains,Flights,Hotels. And its just too much. If I flew down, or by Train, its around £200 same day, late return. If I had to stay in a hotel for the night and drive, it ends up similar. So add the Port and expenses, and its just too much for what will undoubtedly be ONE great night.
So I can only ask that someone takes a camera and reproduces the pictures on site. Have a good one. You jammy buggers. Maybe some of you will get the taste for another Northern version 6 weeks later.