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1960 Sandeman
Light rose red, with just a hint of bricking; 50% opaque. The delicious smell of mature port, full of sweet and dusty cherries. Sweet, balanced and effusive entry. Restrained at first, and then bored by acting shy so out come all the attributes. Balanced, subtle, spiced by tobacco but always wrapped in those wonderful cherries. A bit lively on the aftertaste, with a real whisky kick, but then a long finish of red licorice and the remnants of a wood fire the morning after. Really rather good port - for drinking and not for tasting. 93/100. Drunk 17-Nov-14. Decanted 2 hours.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Re: 1960 Sandeman
Did you do that on purpose?
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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Re: 1960 Sandeman
I had to open something to celebrate our tasting note list being updated.DRT wrote:Did you do that on purpose?
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2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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{Grrrrr-icon}AHB wrote:I had to open something to celebrate our tasting note list being updated.DRT wrote:Did you do that on purpose?
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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If I were you Derek, I think I'd slip a deliberate mistake in next time round…
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It's not too late to roll back to 3rd of Maydjewesbury wrote:If I were you Derek, I think I'd slip a deliberate mistake in next time round…
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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Re: 1960 Sandeman
This is a terrific note that nearly bought tears to my eyes when I read it last night (I may have had a glass of something myself). Beautifully weighted, with a rise and fall and wonderfully undercut with the "rather good port" line at the end. I felt I was in the room. Bravo.
But the bureaucrats are grumbling. Mayakovsky had much the same problem talking to the taxman about poetry.
But the bureaucrats are grumbling. Mayakovsky had much the same problem talking to the taxman about poetry.
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Oooh, comparing Alex to Mayakovsky, risqué!
As one of the revolution's own surely M's willingness to pay tax ought to have been guaranteed?
As one of the revolution's own surely M's willingness to pay tax ought to have been guaranteed?
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Beneath that smooth exterior beats the heart of a new Markov. Patiently awaiting the inexorable turn of history when the capitalist system collapses under the bourgeois revolution. Then you will see the new Alex emerge, bestriding the smoking ruins of parliament with a red sash. Sings; arise ye workers from your slumbers, arise....PopulusTremula wrote:Oooh, comparing Alex to Mayakovsky, risqué!
As one of the revolution's own surely M's willingness to pay tax ought to have been guaranteed?
Or then again, perhaps not.
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I can see him now, rising from the rubble, hand in hand with Dennis Skinner.
Or then again, perhaps not.
Also, what would the leitmotif of a 21st century bourgeois revolution be? "No Tesco on our high street!"? "Primark, pay your taxes but keep up selling me cheap clothes made by Chinese (slave) labour!"?
Or then again, perhaps not.
Also, what would the leitmotif of a 21st century bourgeois revolution be? "No Tesco on our high street!"? "Primark, pay your taxes but keep up selling me cheap clothes made by Chinese (slave) labour!"?
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Is this still a Tasting Note? Does this need to be split into a new section, "Revolutionary Pleas"?
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I was merely highlighting the problems of when poetry meets bureaucracy, the revolution has been incited by Commisar Tremulous. No doubt he is also responsible for the anonymous revolutionary posters that keep appearing on our threads.djewesbury wrote:Is this still a Tasting Note? Does this need to be split into a new section, "Revolutionary Pleas"?
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LGTrotter talks bureaucracy,LGTrotter wrote:I was merely highlighting the problems of when poetry meets bureaucracy
While I sip Fonseca; See,
I win the contest, easily.
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If we are discussing when poetry meets revolution, I would take you back not to the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 but over 100 years earlier to the years of 1789-1799 and some works by Coleridge or Victor Hugo. Please, at least associate me with the correct revolution.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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But as Daniel has pointed out about the earlier revolutionary poets;
Anyhoo... I was just trying to express a joy in your note.
And we wouldn't want that. Perhaps we should return to the English revolution and Marvell?djewesbury wrote: Remember, Wordsworth turned into a right old cantankerous reactionary.
Anyhoo... I was just trying to express a joy in your note.
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And that sentiment was greatly appreciated before others hijacked your joie de vivre(1) for their own political ends.LGTrotter wrote:Anyhoo... I was just trying to express a joy in your note.
(1) Émile Zola pub. 1884, trans. Andrew Moore (Mondial. 2006)
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2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Re: 1960 Sandeman
Wasn't me. Owen started it by referencing the Ruski. He's the subversive one, not me. Just remember how he wants us to hate T85 indefinitely. *stirring the pot*
It was a wonderful TN though!
It was a wonderful TN though!
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Milton anyone?
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No thanks, Alex's Sandeman '60 sounds preferable.djewesbury wrote:Milton anyone?
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God we're on fire this week aren't we. It must be that we're at 'peak port': the season is sufficiently well advanced for us to be at the height of our powers, not to have become jaded, bloated, overfed, tired of life etc.PhilW wrote:No thanks, Alex's Sandeman '60 sounds preferable.djewesbury wrote:Milton anyone?
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be drinking port was very heaven!
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At least you didn't claim to be young! Has Rachel met Dawn?djewesbury wrote:Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be drinking port was very heaven!
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PhilW wrote:LGTrotter talks bureaucracy,LGTrotter wrote:I was merely highlighting the problems of when poetry meets bureaucracy
While I sip Fonseca; See,
I win the contest, easily.
Milton! Thou shoulds't be living at this hour,
England hath need of thee...
Re: 1960 Sandeman
Merging existing themes and adding a new tangent...AHB wrote:Please, at least associate me with the correct revolution.
Foo Fighters wrote:Hook me up a new revolution, 'cause this one is a lie. We sat around laughing and watched the last one die.
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We won't get fooled again.
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Re: 1960 Sandeman
Sandeman '60. The only port that brings out your inner poet.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.