One quiz at a time

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:22 Fri 27 Sep 2013

I am drinking two excellent ports, the same in every way except that the harvests were one year apart. What am I drinking?

For new boys, the game:

jdaw1 wrote:{If you get it right, you then have to pose an equally useless but guessable question. If you guess wrong, you can’t guess again until somebody else has had a guess, or until a new question is posed (which would happen because a previous guess is marked ‘correct’).}

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:15 Fri 27 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:I am drinking two excellent ports, the same in every way except that the harvests were one year apart. What am I drinking?

For new boys, the game:
jdaw1 wrote:{If you get it right, you then have to pose an equally useless but guessable question. If you guess wrong, you can’t guess again until somebody else has had a guess, or until a new question is posed (which would happen because a previous guess is marked ‘correct’).}

Taylor Vargellas? I'll go with 67/68.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:38 Fri 27 Sep 2013

Glenn E. wrote:Taylor Vargellas? I'll go with 67/68.

Completely wrong.

I’ve also added a third to the evening, also excellent, though needing to breathe a little more. But that one is not part of the question.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:57 Fri 27 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
Glenn E. wrote:Taylor Vargellas? I'll go with 67/68.
Completely wrong.

I have an even better guess, but sadly a) didn't think of it before posting the above, and b) must now wait until someone else guesses.

/sigh

Post by **DRT** » 22:07 Fri 27 Sep 2013

A 1991 and a 1992?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:14 Fri 27 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:A 1991 and a 1992?

An insufficient guess, but no matter, as wrong.

As a clue, Graham and Graham Q. d. Malvedos would not satisfy

jdaw1 wrote:the same in every way except that the harvests were one year apart.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:14 Fri 27 Sep 2013

Just so Glenn can guess again, I'm presuming that this is a SQVP, and perhaps a (brace of) Malvedos. This is wrong. Now it's someone else's turn.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:15 Fri 27 Sep 2013

I'm drinking a Quinta de la Rosa 11 half. TN will follow. It's good.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:16 Fri 27 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:Just so Glenn can guess again, I'm presuming that this is a SQVP, and perhaps a (brace of) Malvedos. This is wrong.

Wrong, and correct.

And anyway, GEE could have guessed again following DRT’s guess. So all-round hopeless.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:17 Fri 27 Sep 2013

I can't guess again until someone else does. Of course I was really only guessing so that Derek could guess again. Go on, put us out of our misery.

Post by **DRT** » 22:18 Fri 27 Sep 2013

Warre LBV 1981 and 1982?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:20 Fri 27 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:Warre LBV 1981 and 1982?

And very good they are too.

My wife’s book club is meeting chez moi. It seemed a sensible thing to provide, as host. Except that her friends correctly identified what they brought as less worthy of drinking (blunt comment suppressed), so made progress through the ’81 and ’82 more hastily than expected. An ’84 was then opened.

DRT’s question, please.

Post by **DRT** » 22:23 Fri 27 Sep 2013

May I basque in the glory for a while before thinking of a question?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:31 Fri 27 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:May I basque in the glory for a while before thinking of a question?

You know where you may bask in the glory of it.

Post by **DRT** » 13:51 Sat 28 Sep 2013

Which vintage is the Vintage Port that I have owned for the longest time that is still in my cellar?

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:13 Sat 28 Sep 2013

A 1963?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:22 Sat 28 Sep 2013

Is it a 1955?

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:23 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1945?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:33 Sat 28 Sep 2013

No, 1942..

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:36 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1960?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:40 Sat 28 Sep 2013

Perhaps this is a trick question. Maybe it's a 1972.

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:43 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1985?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:46 Sat 28 Sep 2013

How long, on average, can a bottle of VP survive in DRT's cellar? It could be a 2003.

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:47 Sat 28 Sep 2013

In storage, ages. On site, sometimes over a week.

1970?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:50 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1999?

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:50 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1983?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:53 Sat 28 Sep 2013

I really think DRT should answer.

Is it a 1979 Malvedos?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:00 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1980?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:08 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1977?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:11 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1966?

Maybe a clue would help.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:13 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1967?

I agree.

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:14 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1992?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:17 Sat 28 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:1992?

Surely not.

1991.

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:18 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1975, heaven have mercy on his soul? Maybe God created man in his own image, but believers and non-believers can surely agree that he did not create the 1975 vintage whilst gazing in a mirror. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, completely rubbish declaration to, well, you can guess.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:20 Sat 28 Sep 2013

No, it's more likely to be 1950.

(thinks.. have we covered every likely vintage yet?)

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:21 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1997, about which Wikipedia reports that ‟Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 for the UK with "Love Shine a Light", the most successful Eurovision entry ever.”

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:25 Sat 28 Sep 2013

2001: the title of one of the most boring films ever made.

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:26 Sat 28 Sep 2013

2000, the last year of the second millennium.

That film was made before the moon landings, and yet it well showed many of the features of space travel. I liked the film.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:33 Sat 28 Sep 2013

I preferred Solaris, but we've already had 1972. Perhaps my view of 2001 is coloured by not having watched it again since Christmas 199?, when it was on TV while I was in New York. An ad break every 15 minutes did nothing for Kubrick's contemplative pacing.

1934?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:33 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1993?

DRT: we need a clue. Or, even better, to be told that the answer has been guessed.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:39 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1998. We're running out of vintages.

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:39 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1994, the year in which the bond market crashed after Alan Greenspan raised the Fed Funds rate from 3% to 6% in seven steps.

Plenty more to go.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:42 Sat 28 Sep 2013

Is it a 95 Churchill Agua Alta?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:42 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1962, perhaps Nacional?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:45 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1996. Probably a Vesuvio that DRT was given by Charles Symington as a thank you for his services to Port. Probably a double magnum actually.

Post by **DRT** » 15:58 Sat 28 Sep 2013

All incorrect.

A woman was on the throne.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:03 Sat 28 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:All incorrect.

A woman was on the throne.

Thanks for the clue. 1964.
EDIT: Nacional. And you're going to put it in a box and send it to Belfast, for our lunch on the 8th! How sweet!

Post by **DRT** » 16:24 Sat 28 Sep 2013

Wrong woman.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:24 Sat 28 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:Wrong woman.

Ah. Not my turn.

Post by **jdaw1** » 16:31 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1896?