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jdaw1 wrote:Plans, questions and a forewarning of call for money.

People: we are N.D. (middle initial?); JDAW; THRA; RAYC; AP; DRT; AHB; JGH; BMHR; and WS.

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Food. Non-vegetarians must choose between two steaks. For £50 an 800g ‘Club Steak’, a ‘Double-Sirloin’; or for £25 a 350g bone-in-rib. Add £5 for a starter; add £5 for pudding. This choice must be made by Thursday 12th April.

I will be writing to you individually asking that you, no later than Friday 6th April, confirm your presence, so that people can be billed based on these numbers.

Current draft of the placemats.

I also can confirm my attendance and would like to have a starter and the350g bone-in-rib.

regards

WS1

I know i'm a day late, so i'll get what i'm given (if anything)...

but in case there's still time i'll have the 350g bone-in rib, unless someone else wants to share a rare or medium-rare club steak or double sirloin (in which case i'd be in for that)

AHB wrote:I suggest removing the glass from the mat entirely - was that not the purpose of the original question?

i'm pretty sure the real purpose of the original question was to subtly suggest the addition of 4xpre-60 vintage ports!!

Current draft of the placemats.

• 1975 removed from glasses sheets; at top of first TN sheet (which AHB will therefore think borderline crowded); and retained for pre-pour and voting purposes.

isn't 350g only a 12 oz piece of meat?

and the bone in means that you only get 10oz of steak.

I can honestly say that my wife eats 10oz of steak and she's only 6.7 stone

jdaw1 wrote:Summary:
• Club Steaks for DRT, BMHR, AP, THRA, RLC.
• Bone-in-rib for AHB, WS, ND, JDAW.
• Vegetarian: JGH.

Ordered. I have insisted that the vegetarian thing should be superior to the normal.

Jonathan, manager of the Bung Hole, said that he is to become manager of Grapeshots, and that he will try to persuade us to hold tastings there.

jdaw1 wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:Summary:
• Club Steaks for DRT, BMHR, AP, THRA, RLC.
• Bone-in-rib for AHB, WS, ND, JDAW.
• Vegetarian: JGH.

Ordered. I have insisted that the vegetarian thing should be superior to the normal.

Jonathan, manager of the Bung Hole, said that he is to become manager of Grapeshots, and that he will try to persuade us to hold tastings there.

Some attendees are missing from this list. Is their punishment for late ordering that they are not allowed to eat?

Who are the missing attendees?

jdaw1 wrote:Who are the missing attendees?

Perhaps only one.

RAYC wrote:I know i'm a day late, so i'll get what i'm given (if anything)...

but in case there's still time i'll have the 350g bone-in rib, unless someone else wants to share a rare or medium-rare club steak or double sirloin (in which case i'd be in for that)

RAYC wrote:unless someone else wants to share a rare or medium-rare club steak or double sirloin (in which case i'd be in for that)

Did I forget to mark that DRT was sharing his Club Steak with RAYC? Silly me.

jdaw1 wrote:

RAYC wrote:unless someone else wants to share a rare or medium-rare club steak or double sirloin (in which case i'd be in for that)

Did I forget to mark that DRT was sharing his Club Steak with RAYC? Silly me.

Provided RAYC's meaning of sharing is that he gets to chew on the bones once I've eaten all the steak then that would work. But I suspect not, so best to order him a 350g Ribeye.

DRT wrote:Provided RAYC's meaning of sharing is that he gets to chew on the bones once I've eaten all the steak then that would work.

You meanie!

I believe I am down for this, can I please have the club steak!

Christopher wrote:I believe I am down for this, can I please have the club steak!

I will ask tomorrow, but that may well be too late. In which case you’ll be getting bone-in-rib.

Ok thanks Julian if the default option is that I am a happy man anyway! Many thanks for organising!!!

More Club steaks ordered.

Please could somebody look at the placemats and check that all is well.

Hi Julian,

looks OK to me. Do we have already a time when we start?

regards

WS1

Wish I was going to be there. I had a great time at the April 17th tasting.

Stephanie

jdaw1 wrote:Please could somebody look at the placemats and check that all is well.

I don't know how accurate/pedantic you want to be with the names, but the 80, 91 and 97 are "Delaforce Corte" whereas the 74, 84 and 87 are very clearly labelled "Delaforce Quinta Da Corte". I do also know that Axel was told by someone that certain vintages of "Corte" were not exclusively single quinta, so there may be some significance to this (but no doubt Nick will be able to enlighten).

Couldn't see whether already included from viewer on my ipod but sticky labels would be useful for decanting.

I have in my possession the ports being contributed by WS1, AHB and AP as well as the bottle very kindly donated by g-man. comments on ideal decanting regime would be welcomed. As my flat is a 3 minute walk from work, I can (within reason) accommodate a regime that involves decanting different bottles at different times if instructed.

RAYC wrote:I don't know how accurate/pedantic you want to be with the names, but the 80, 91 and 97 are "Delaforce Corte" whereas the 74, 84 and 87 are very clearly labelled "Delaforce Quinta Da Corte".

Wilco.

RAYC wrote:sticky labels would be useful for decanting.

Wilco.

RAYC wrote:I have in my possession the ports being contributed by WS1, AHB and AP as well as the bottle very kindly donated by g-man. comments on ideal decanting regime would be welcomed. As my flat is a 3 minute walk from work, I can (within reason) accommodate a regime that involves decanting different bottles at different times if instructed.

18 bottles decanted one after the other will take around 2 hours to decant.

My suggestion would be to decant the recent vintages ('07, '03. 00, 97) 24-48 hours in advance in the hope that they might open up. The others around lunchtime.

AHB wrote:18 bottles

Plus the ’75.

With 19 Ports and 12 people I strongly recommend pre-pouring, especially as we will be using the Bung Hole's large glasses.

I am available for duty.

Where are all the bottles? Is it possible to get all of them to TBH by 16:00?