Organise events to meet up and drink Port.
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WS1
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by WS1 » 12:02 Sat 01 May 2010
Dear all,
I would like to organise a 1980 horizontal. Since there was already one Wokingham in May 2008 the location for this one will be Levekusen in Germany. I think 30 years after release it is the perfect time to find out what is what and see how the vintage is like. The tasting will include:
Nacional
Dow
Warre
Grahams
Niepoort
Taylor
Fonseca
Smith Woodhouse
Quarles Harris
Sandemann
Gould Campell
Offley
Royal Oporto
Borges
Calem da Foz
Delaforce Quinta da Corte
Croft Quinta da Roeda
Ferreira
Messias Cachao
Ramos Pinto
Despite it is far away I thought it is a good idea to find out interest and in order to have enough time to eventally be able to complete the line up
confirmed interests (will become attendees if they do not pull out before and the event goes ahead as planned):
Dirk & Nina
Joao M.
Wolfgang S.
Axel P.
Martin R.
Rob. C.
Viola C.
Ralf L.
Janek S.
Sascha S.
Christopher P.
Richard V.
Dirk B.
regards
WS1
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by DrDirk » 21:43 Sat 01 May 2010
I will join the tasting

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by Axel P » 18:24 Sun 02 May 2010
Axel +3, please.
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by Alex Bridgeman » 22:15 Mon 03 May 2010
My opportunities to travel to Germany are quite limited these days, but I'm interested as a possibility. What would be the nearest airport for Leverkusen?
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by WS1 » 21:43 Tue 04 May 2010
Hi Alex,
the nearest airport is Cologne. There are various airlines who go there from various London airports. Other alternatives, a bit further away are Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Frankfurt (furthest; you would need then also to use the very fast train to Cologne ).
Hope to see you there
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by VJR » 21:47 Tue 04 May 2010
Wolfgang - great initiative with a vintage that deserves more attention - please put me down.
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by WS1 » 21:55 Fri 07 May 2010
with pleasure, updated with interested people.
Hmmmm we are already 9 interested people if there no changes; I fear the tasting fills up quicker than I thought.
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by KillerB » 09:48 Sat 08 May 2010
Port of Interest - oh go on then, put me down. No, not like a dog or even a heckler, but as I'd like to go.
Port is basically a red drink
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by WS1 » 10:06 Sat 08 May 2010

and updated.
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by Deleted_User_1 » 07:36 Thu 13 May 2010
With that much notice how could I refuse...please include me on this one.

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by WS1 » 07:04 Tue 18 Jan 2011
updated with RAYC and Cookie; the tasting seems to fill up ~ 1 year in advance; like that

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by jdaw1 » 11:38 Tue 18 Jan 2011
Next task: choose a date.
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by jdaw1 » 15:47 Tue 18 Jan 2011
Also, when you have time, please do post pictures of the labels of the Nacional, Offley, Royal Oporto, Borges, Cálem Foz, Delaforce Quinta da Corte, and Messias Cachão. Thank you.
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by Chris Doty » 19:18 Wed 02 Feb 2011
Love the idea Wolfgang. A bit hard for me to plan that far ahead, but can we put me down for +1?
Long time no see btw -- let's try to hit up TCP sometime soon.
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by WS1 » 09:13 Sat 05 Feb 2011
Hi Chris,
have included you in the List. Also updated the list of Ports to include Calem. BTW the tasting may also include a second bt of Calem da Foz. My initial bt was sourced in Portugal (bt has never left the country) , but then I found another one in Tokyo, which a good friend of mine bought for me and send it to me via the shipping way during winter.
We then can see if transport may/can make a difference.
Hi Julian,
will take pictures and put them the next time I am near to the bts; They are lying somewhere in my cellar in Germany.
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by jdaw1 » 10:04 Sat 05 Feb 2011
WS1 wrote:Hi Julian,
will take pictures and put them the next time I am near to the bts; They are lying somewhere in my cellar in Germany.
Thank you.
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by WS1 » 20:26 Tue 30 Aug 2011
Hi Julian,
I am afraid so far no news on the pictures to be taken. But I will make sure that they will be taken. The ports are already in Axel's cellar near Leverkusen. Though there is also good news; we got a date and the venue, Bayercasino Leverkusen, confirmed. The date is the 17th of February next year. The tasting is likely to start ~6:30 PM. Further details will follow later.
To all confirmed interets,
can you please let me know if you can make it on this date?
regards
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by jdaw1 » 10:43 Wed 31 Aug 2011
To encourage picture-tasting, I have prepared the first
draft of the placemats (link broken as date change has caused a change in the filename).
- The organisers need to give some thought as to the ordering of the ports.
- There will be how many bottles of Cálem Quinta do Foz?
- Some names are missing.
- I have not included decanter labels, nor any sticky labels. If wrong, instruct.
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by Alex Bridgeman » 21:58 Thu 01 Sep 2011
WS1 wrote:To all confirmed interets,
can you please let me know if you can make it on this date?
I won't know for sure if I can make it until much nearer the time as I do not (yet) have any plans to be in Bonn the week of 17th Feb. Can I request that I be made a provisional attendee and anyone who can confirm their attendance be given priority over me?
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by RAYC » 11:56 Mon 05 Sep 2011
Wolfgang - 17th February is good for me, though i will have a slight concern if i end up as the only non-German speaker!
Is there a recommended hotel?
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by jdaw1 » 12:18 Mon 05 Sep 2011
I was the only non-speaker of German at the
Niepoort vertical, and a triumph of polite accommodation of a guest events proceeded in English. I thanked everybody at the end of the evening.
The tasting is in the
Bayer Gastronomie Kasino Leverkusen. Stay there.
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by WS1 » 05:59 Thu 20 Oct 2011
Hi there,
apologies for any confusion, but due to organisatorial problems (colision with the essentia do vinho) the the tasting needs to be moved probably by a week. So new provisional date the 24th of February.
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by RAYC » 18:11 Thu 20 Oct 2011
Still good by me.
May be worth a PM in case people have forgotten that they signed up!
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by Alex Bridgeman » 22:28 Thu 20 Oct 2011
You'd better change my status to provisional and let anyone who can confirm take priority over me.
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by WS1 » 22:49 Thu 20 Oct 2011
Hi Alex,
will do. Once more sorry for the confusion/trouble caused.
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