2000 Noval Unfiltered LBV
2000 Noval Unfiltered LBV
I am staying in a hotel in London for 4 nights and decided to set myself the ultimate challenge.
Tonight I opened a bottle of Noval 2000 LBV and told myself that I need to make it last 4 nights
Will post notes here over the course of the week.
Derek
Tonight I opened a bottle of Noval 2000 LBV and told myself that I need to make it last 4 nights
Will post notes here over the course of the week.
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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Derek, you lucky guy. This is an absolute fabulous wine, with which I impressed a couple of guys in St. Moritz this year. They brought a Vargellas 2001 and a Panascal 2004 and the unfiltered LBV of Noval was definitely the star of the show whilst being the cheapest of the three as well.
Im going for a Quinta de la Rosa LBV 2000 tonight. It's something different, but after all I think I'm a bit jealous.
Axel
P.S.: I don't think it will last four nights and I bet the next bottle when we meet the next time...
Im going for a Quinta de la Rosa LBV 2000 tonight. It's something different, but after all I think I'm a bit jealous.
Axel
P.S.: I don't think it will last four nights and I bet the next bottle when we meet the next time...
So you’re upset that it might be good.
So you’re upset that it might be good. You can at least be pleased that you managed to avoid the trauma of the New York tasting happening the same night. Think how much worse it would be if you were forced to suffer three 1977s and three 1985s.
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Derek,
don't do it. Maybe you will get gout from it or anything else. Put the bottle aside and read a book or watch TV, I mean: only read a book or watch TV without a glass in your hand. Get a glass of milk instead or Mountain Dew
Think it over: alcohol is never a saver.
Axel
P.S.: That's all the encouragement you will get!!!
P.S.P.S.: At least it was a try.
don't do it. Maybe you will get gout from it or anything else. Put the bottle aside and read a book or watch TV, I mean: only read a book or watch TV without a glass in your hand. Get a glass of milk instead or Mountain Dew
Think it over: alcohol is never a saver.
Axel
P.S.: That's all the encouragement you will get!!!
P.S.P.S.: At least it was a try.
a thousand LBVs = one bottle of NN31
If you don’t buy, say, a thousand LBVs, and instead buy one bottle of NN31, then:
- it will be so much better for your liver;
- it will be so much better for your taste buds.
Thanks. That's more like it. Putting me off the idea of drinking it all is the only way to go
Here is my first TN @ +4 Hours
Very purple and sticky in the glass. Raw nose - very young. A little heat on the nose as I take the first sip from a huge red wine glass (the only one available in the room). Mouthfeel is mid-weight. Very tannic, which seems to be hiding lots of nice black fruit. The finish mellows into a lovely fruity sweetness that makes the cheeks water and goes on and on for a long time.
At this point this is not far away from a <5 yr old VP. Very impresive but not something I would buy again to drink now. Needs years.
My challenge is looking good
More tomorrow.
Derek
Here is my first TN @ +4 Hours
Very purple and sticky in the glass. Raw nose - very young. A little heat on the nose as I take the first sip from a huge red wine glass (the only one available in the room). Mouthfeel is mid-weight. Very tannic, which seems to be hiding lots of nice black fruit. The finish mellows into a lovely fruity sweetness that makes the cheeks water and goes on and on for a long time.
At this point this is not far away from a <5 yr old VP. Very impresive but not something I would buy again to drink now. Needs years.
My challenge is looking good
More tomorrow.
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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No no no no no. Don't drink the rest of the bottle. It doesn't matter that you've drunk 40% of the bottle, simply top it up with tap water and then you will have a full bottle left to last you the next three days.
There, does that help.
Alex
There, does that help.
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
I have come up with an ingenius plan that is much better than the suggestions from ADV and AHB.
Tonight I am going to go out to the pub with a colleague and drink some beer. I will not return to the hotel until I am at a stage where one glass of port before bed is all that I will require. This will restore the plan by leaving me with 50% of the port left with 2 nights remaining.
It's a brilliant plan and I know I can do it.
Derek
Tonight I am going to go out to the pub with a colleague and drink some beer. I will not return to the hotel until I am at a stage where one glass of port before bed is all that I will require. This will restore the plan by leaving me with 50% of the port left with 2 nights remaining.
It's a brilliant plan and I know I can do it.
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
confusion-preventing placemats[
Derek,
I can only apologise. It is entirely my fault: there you were, trapped in your shyness, too timid to ask, so you hinted, you hinted ever so gently what you wanted, and I was too insensitive to notice.
I am sorry, but it is done at last: for your Noval 200 LBV tasting, confusion-preventing placemats.
Apologies again for not earlier heeding your hint.
Julian.
I can only apologise. It is entirely my fault: there you were, trapped in your shyness, too timid to ask, so you hinted, you hinted ever so gently what you wanted, and I was too insensitive to notice.
I am sorry, but it is done at last: for your Noval 200 LBV tasting, confusion-preventing placemats.
Apologies again for not earlier heeding your hint.
Julian.
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Re: confusion-preventing placemats[
Julian,jdaw1 wrote:confusion-preventing placemats.
This is fabulous. Thank you. It will now be impossible for me to mistake my glass of Noval 2000 LBV for my glass of mineral water.
I now feel more confident about succeeding in my challenge.
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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Hmmm - I wondered when someone would ask thatuncle tom wrote:Ok, so what are you drinking BETWEEN the sips of Noval '00 LBV?
Tom
Last night I had 3 pints of Bitburger Pils, 1 glass of red wine and 1 bottle of Budvar around and inbetween my N00LBV.
Tonight was half a bottle of Chianti, 1 pint of Kronenbourg 1667, 1 pint of Bitburger.....and no N00LBV as of this point in the evening.
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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Re: confusion-preventing placemats
If you tell which type of “mineral water† (what is the point?) I’ll update the mats to reflect this.Derek T. wrote:mineral water
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Re: confusion-preventing placemats
water of the Liffey Derek's favoritejdaw1 wrote:If you tell which type of “mineral water† (what is the point?) I’ll update the mats to reflect this.
Re: confusion-preventing placemats
The point is simple - someone places a bottle of this in my room every morning and does not add anything to the bill. A secondary point is that it comes in a 750ml glass bottle which, as I have proven a number of times, is an adequate decanting vesseljdaw1 wrote:If you tell which type of “mineral water† (what is the point?) I’ll update the mats to reflect this.Derek T. wrote:mineral water
The name of this over-hyped tap water is llanllyr SOURCE - please note carefull use of upper and lower case letters. It is from Wales. Which once again prompts the question (what is the point?).
An updated tasting mat would be most welcome and, if forthcoming, I will endeavour to access a printer tomorrow and post a photo of it in use.
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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You will note that I have moved this thread to Meaningless Drivel. I will leave the entire thread here and then create a proper TN in the appropriate area once this bottle is finished.
Here is tonights contribution...
+24 Hours
Still raw on the nose and still has some heat. Now has a softer and thicker mouthfeel but still very young tasting. A very nice fruity aftertaste which goes on for a long time. This seems to be a wine to try again in 5 years time.
Derek
Here is tonights contribution...
+24 Hours
Still raw on the nose and still has some heat. Now has a softer and thicker mouthfeel but still very young tasting. A very nice fruity aftertaste which goes on for a long time. This seems to be a wine to try again in 5 years time.
Derek
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
confusion-preventing placemats
Updated: confusion is now impossible.
Re: confusion-preventing placemats
Something seems to have happened to the O in SOURCE that could lead to confusion.jdaw1 wrote:Updated: confusion is now impossible.
Please fix.
Derek
PS: If absolute accuracy is desired you should note that the O in SOURCE is infilled in orange whilst the outline of the letter O itself remains white on a black background in common wth the remaining letters.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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black-on-white text-only approximation
It’s a monochrome black-on-white text-only approximation to the label. If it is so different that confusion is likely, then you’re back in the kitchen.
Re: black-on-white text-only approximation
Would that be snoring, horizontal and asleep? (While a once in a lifetime Fonseca Vertical is still going on next door!)jdaw1 wrote:It’s a monochrome black-on-white text-only approximation to the label. If it is so different that confusion is likely, then you’re back in the kitchen.