Most excellent; my thanks and appreciation also.jdaw1 wrote:Delivery has been taken of two bottles of the 1952 Graham Single Harvest Tawny. Doff hat in the direction of the Symingtons.
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Re: Wed 9th September 2015, Port Fit for a Queen (E2>V)
If I were to be able to make this, I would bring a G55. Would that be an acceptable bottle?
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Re: Wed 9th September 2015, Port Fit for a Queen (E2>V)
I'm sure that G55 would be met with royal approval.djewesbury wrote:If I were to be able to make this, I would bring a G55. Would that be an acceptable bottle?
Re: Wed 9th September 2015, Port Fit for a Queen (E2>V)
Excellent. First post and placemats updated.djewesbury wrote:If I were to be able to make this, I would bring a G55. Would that be an acceptable bottle?
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The stars have aligned and I'm in the country on this date.
Please may I be added to the list or the appropriate place in the queue for the list?
Please may I be added to the list or the appropriate place in the queue for the list?
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Re: Wed 9th September 2015, Port Fit for a Queen (E2>V)
Excellent news. First post edited: you have the fourteenth place. What will you bring?RAYC wrote:Please may I be added to the list or the appropriate place in the queue for the list?
Re: Wed 9th September 2015, Port Fit for a Queen (E2>V)
i'll bring something appropriate to be advised!
do you mind if i have a week to work it out? supplies in my flat are low so it will require a trip to Big Yellow
do you mind if i have a week to work it out? supplies in my flat are low so it will require a trip to Big Yellow
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Sadly it looks like I can no longer make this. Something might shift and make it possible again nearer the time, but right now it is not possible. Stick me on the reserves and if things change then I can advise.
Re: Wed 9th September 2015, Port Fit for a Queen (E2>V)
Splendid.RAYC wrote:do you mind if i have a week to work it out?
Not splendid.flash_uk wrote:Sadly it looks like I can no longer make this. Something might shift and make it possible again nearer the time, but right now it is not possible.
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To whom should I send my G55? Now would seem like a good time to send it to make sure it has time to rest.
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Re: Wed 9th September 2015, Port Fit for a Queen (E2>V)
Please, not in this heat. Wait for a cool week.djewesbury wrote:Now would seem like a good time to send it
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It is raining and cold here. I think the weather can be expected to fluctuate somewhat for the next few weeks. Cold here may be hot there and vice versa. Time is of the essence.
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Time is not of the essence. Whole-journey cool is of the essence.
Shaken rather than boiled.
Shaken rather than boiled.
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I appreciate your concerns but genuinely feel that if we wait for a window when it is forecast to be suitably cool, over three days*, in all parts of Her Germanic Majesty's wonderful queendom, we will be waiting a while. And who knows, we may get it wrong.jdaw1 wrote:Time is not of the essence. Whole-journey cool is of the essence.
Shaken rather than boiled.
Can we solicit other opinions? I really do not want to be left bringing this with me - although we drank wonderful 1955s last June that had travelled but a couple of days before.
*ParcelForce's 48 hour service is, in fact, 72 hours from NI.
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Re: Wed 9th September 2015, Port Fit for a Queen (E2>V)
Perhaps DJ could send the bottle from cold wet NI to cold wet Edinburgh and I could collect it from my mother en route home from even colder and wetter Isle of Skye?
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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That's the plan. Send me the address by your preferred method of private communication.DRT wrote:Perhaps DJ could send the bottle from cold wet NI to cold wet Edinburgh and I could collect it from my mother en route home from even colder and wetter Isle of Skye?
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I have just sent you a Psychic message. I'll pick it up two weeks on Saturday.djewesbury wrote:That's the plan. Send me the address by your preferred method of private communication.DRT wrote:Perhaps DJ could send the bottle from cold wet NI to cold wet Edinburgh and I could collect it from my mother en route home from even colder and wetter Isle of Skye?
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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Ouch! The psychic message just arrived!DRT wrote:I have just sent you a Psychic message. I'll pick it up two weeks on Saturday.djewesbury wrote:That's the plan. Send me the address by your preferred method of private communication.DRT wrote:Perhaps DJ could send the bottle from cold wet NI to cold wet Edinburgh and I could collect it from my mother en route home from even colder and wetter Isle of Skye?
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Re: Wed 9th September 2015, Port Fit for a Queen (E2>V)
DRT wrote:en route home from even colder and wetter Isle of Skye?
I've just come down from the Isle of Skye. I'm not very tall and i'm awfully shy....
Derek where's yer troosers?
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I think you will find that one comes "doon fae the Isle o' Skye"
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One bottle of G55 entrusted to Smashing Couriers.
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Edinburgh by 1pm tomorrow. Or a mystery location of their choice.jdaw1 wrote:Going where?
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Re: Wed 9th September 2015, Port Fit for a Queen (E2>V)
Oh God please don't say it's going to Derek's holiday home on the bleak and empty Isle of Skye!jdaw1 wrote:Going where?
That's a relief. It may survive its journey.djewesbury wrote:Edinburgh by 1pm tomorrow.
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Apparently, the eagle has landed.AHB wrote:Oh God please don't say it's going to Derek's holiday home on the bleak and empty Isle of Skye!jdaw1 wrote:Going where?
That's a relief. It may survive its journey.djewesbury wrote:Edinburgh by 1pm tomorrow.
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