The proposed date is St George's Day 2051, being the 40th anniversary of the declaration of the vintage.
People (all subject to being fit to attend):
- DRT; ✓
- DJ; ✓
- JDAW; ✓
- CaliforniaBrad;
- ADV; ✓
- AHB; ✓
- JHG; ✓
- THRA; ✓
- RAYC;
- PW; ✓
- WPS; ✓
- BMHR; ✓
- TLW;
- PEM.
- GEE; ✓
- SCD; ✓
- MPM; ✓
- IDJ ✓
- GD; ✓
- RK; ✓
Caparica; ✓
Justin K; ✓
/2alph; ✓
Jasper May; ✓
differentdave + son. ✓
Bottles:
- Barão de Vilar (PEM);
- Cockburn (BPB);
- Croft (JHG);
- Dow (DRT, JDAW);
- Ferreira (AHB);
- Fonseca (DJ, SCD {Magnum}, PEM);
- Graham (AHB, JHG);
- Graham Stone Terraces (AHB—"hopefully", SCD);
- Niepoort (DRT, PEM);
- Niepoort Bioma (DJ);
- Niepoort Morgadio da Calçada (PEM);
- Offley Boa Vista (DRT, AHB);
- Pintas (AHB);
- Quinta do Noval (DRT, BPB, PEM);
- Quinta do Noval Nacional (ADV {Magnum});
- Quinta da Romaneira (AHB);
- Quinta de Vale da Dona Maria (AHB, PEM);
- Quinta do Vesuvio (JHG);
- Quinta do Vesuvio Capela (DJ, PEM);
- Quevedo (DRT, JDAW, JHG {Imperial}, PEM);
- Sandeman (AHB);
- Skeffington (AHB);
- Smith Woodhouse (BPB, PEM);
- Taylor (DJ, PEM);
- Vieira de Sousa (PEM);
- Waitrose Symington (SCD);
- Warre (DRT).
Current draft of the placemats. (Do not print from this link. A few days before the tasting there will temporarily be a different link, to counteract problems with the caching of old drafts.)











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