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1970 Horizontal, Jan 30st in London

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Since there was such a hughe reply and the seats were taken by the minute we planned this, I delayed this post a bit.

There wil be a hughe VP 1970 Tasting in the RAF Club in London on Jan 30st, organized by the german side of the Port Lovers. We choose the location London because of the UK definitely being the place to have this kind of tastings.

14 persons form the UK, Portugal and Germany, will join the tasting and since there are some amongst us who are writing a lot in the forum there will be TNs afterwards.

We included the following wines into the tasting:
Andresen
Barros
Borges
Butler Nephew
Calem Quinta do Foz
Cockburn
Croft
Da Silva
Dalva
Delaforce
Dow
Ferreira
Fonseca
Grahams
Gonzales Byass
Gould Campbell
Hutcheson
Kopke
Martinez
Messias
Morgan
Niepoort
Noval
Noval Nacional
Offley Boa Vista
Ramos Pinto
Rebello Valente
Royal Oporto
Sandeman
Sibio
Smith Woodhouse
Taylors
Warre
(and some more as candidates depending on availability and price)

I would like to thank uncle tom in advance to help us out with some of the VPs although not personally participating.

There is also a note about this tasting at:
http://www.infoportwine.com/

More to come

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Outstanding jdaw, thanks.

Please let us wait until the final setting is done since one or two additional candidates might show up soon.

As well we should differenciate the placemats into afternoon and evening session

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with or without Vargellas and Burmester and QH?

For your work I promise you the "prima nocte"-right for all of them. Meaning you are to uncork them all....
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Axel P wrote:with or without Vargellas and Burmester and QH?

For your work I promise you the "prima nocte"-right for all of them. Meaning you are to uncork them all....
I think that also gives him the right to sleep with all of our wives :shock:
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DRT wrote:I think that also gives him the right to sleep with all of our wives :shock:
I think Derek means this in the same way that he has slept with most of ours: he on the kitchen floor; she at least a storey away.

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Just out of interest: on what basis is the divide into sub-regions made?
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By Command of Alex Bridgeman, no less.
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It would be interesting to hear from winemakers to what extent that division is accurate. I presume that e.g. Taylor's is listed as Douro Superior because of Vargellas. But what is the % of Vargellas in the blend? And how much comes from Terra Feita and others. Interesting subject!
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RonnieRoots wrote:It would be interesting to hear from winemakers to what extent that division is accurate. I presume that e.g. Taylor's is listed as Douro Superior because of Vargellas. But what is the % of Vargellas in the blend? And how much comes from Terra Feita and others. Interesting subject!
I was wondering about that. Also, presumably, the blend changes each vintage, depending on how well certain wines have done and what deals have been struck with the independents.

Anyway, sounds like a great evening. Those of you to have been invited are very fortunate!
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With two sessions of 17 or 18 bottles, some sub-division into flights was needed. Even if only a modest proportion comes from the flagship vineyard, it isn’t such a bad flighting criterion.

Rephrased, how would you have have split into flights?
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jdaw1 wrote:Rephrased, how would you have have split into flights?
Date of shipper's foundation.
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JacobH wrote:Date of shipper's foundation.
Presumably after a merger the date of foundation would be deemed to be that of the alphabetically earlier?
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jdaw1 wrote:
JacobH wrote:Date of shipper's foundation.
Presumably after a merger the date of foundation would be deemed to be that of the alphabetically earlier?
That could work. Or the date of the merger. Depends on the context. It would also have the advantage that you would not be drinking the Nacional (c.1931) at the same time as the Noval (1715).
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jdaw1 wrote:Rephrased, how would you have have split into flights?
I think I would either use the shipper's tiers as mentioned in Mayson's book, or use Michael Broadbent's scores.
But this division is very interesting as well.
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RonnieRoots wrote:I think I would either use the shipper's tiers as mentioned in Mayson's book, or use Michael Broadbent's scores.
But this division is very interesting as well.
OK, I need to research ‟shipper's tiers”. But scores (from multiple sources) were used to separate into sessions afternoon or evening.
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People are asked to be polite by not noticing the spelling error in the placemats. (They’ve been printed too late to repair.)
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Just a very honest thanks to all of the forum who were involved in the preperations ahead:

Although the tasting is a solely german founded idea, the place is more british than any other on the island and without the help of some of you guys prep would have been much harder.

A very special thanks to:

Jdaw - for outstanding ideas and - of course - his traditional placemaps.
Alex - for very keen, solid ideas and for always being there, when needed
Derek - for having done the what we believed impossible: Organising a QH 70, and for being a solid pole in the prep
and last, but definitely not least Uncle Tom - for letting go 4 of his babies and not even participating.

I wish all of us and especially Wolfgang, Ben and myself an oustanding evening with a complexity of VPs from our year of birth that will not be there again (in history?).

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jdaw1 wrote:People are asked to be polite by not noticing the spelling error in the placemats. (They’ve been printed too late to repair.)
I can report that normal service has resumed. I checked them as carefully as I could and can't spot the error :lol:
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González Byass, not Gonzáles Byass.
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