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winesecretary wrote: ↑09:53 Sun 10 May 2026Might I make a request for review and tasting note threads?

Doing.

JohnDavidFrance wrote: ↑20:23 Sat 09 May 2026Im going to greatly regret this, but i'll give up my space on this one seeing as im there for RP a week earlier

Fool! You will greatly regret this.

Yes please, unless super-Nacional-expensive. Will confirm bottles.

Likely yes please.

First thing tomorrow = Tuesday morning I will open and decant the QH94, and then, as has become my usual, pack with ice.

What struck me was how radically different was the interpretation of the fruit from the 2024 harvest. The Fladgate Partnership made wines with amazing fragrance, incredible elegance and tannins within the fruit that were so silky and fine-grained as to be almost hidden by the fruit. The Symingtons ...

hadge wrote: ↑20:50 Thu 30 Apr 2026a classic georgian port glass

If I tell you that you are being helpful, then you are being helpful. I am not telling you that you are being helpful.

My Port glasses have suffered from cumulative accidents. Before tackling the variety of questions about which, about cost, etc, what about size?

What is the optimal volume of a glass from which to drink red Port. If relevant, assume non-old: maybe LBV, maybe crusted, or still-primary VP.

Bertie3000 wrote: ↑09:59 Thu 30 Apr 2026The differences between post 1 and the placements are that the placemats are missing 85 and 97 but also include 91, which is not bolded as I feel it is a bottle too many once Tony declares (plus is not supposed to be great!).

Believed fixed.

Prices from the tasting sheet, in-bond per six, and not delivered:
• £150 Skeffington;
• £204 Taylor Sentinels;
• £318 Croft;
• £396 Fonseca;
• £396 Taylor;
• £282 (estimate) Vesuvio;
• £282 (estimate) Warre;
• £348 (estimate) Dow;
• £348 (estimate) Graham;
• £399 (estimate) Noval.

Noval have not bottled in half since the purchase by AXA. I suspect this vintage will not be different. Of Noval halves, The Book knows of only 1887, 1908, 1912, 1923, 1931, and 1962. I have never tasted the N08 from half. Who knows when it comes to Smith Woodhouse. The terminating full stop, rathe...

I might be game, work etc dependent.

Will anyone be offering in halves, a chap said, in vain hope? Ah George I thought I was the only one out there :) Perhaps there is a risk that one day I will grow old, and think — dread weakness upon my dotage — that after a bottle then an extra a half would be sufficient supplement, rather than a ...

winesecretary wrote: ↑21:28 Wed 29 Apr 2026Will anyone be offering in halves, a chap said, in vain hope?

Fladgate said that Croft, Fonseca, and Taylor would be offered in halves and magnums, but neither Sentinels nor Skeffington. There was no representative of Symington, nor Noval.

2024 is a serious vintage. Those younger than me, those slimmer than me, those about whom the actuaries are more optimistic, should own. Numbers revelaed by the Fladgate sales director: Skeffington 260 dozen (=9 litres); Taylor Sentinels 2600 dozen; Croft 1600 dozen; Fonseca 3900 dozen; Taylor 5000 ...

We are very early, but nonetheless, eventually please could somebody check the draft of the placemats.

I checked carefully, and the only thing I noticed is that some people have stars in the top right hand corner of their TN sheets (IDJ, NAC, MPM), one person is lucky enough that their stars are aligned (NAC), and some people have no stars (MC, BRP, JDF, AHB, HTWH, JDAW, MSC, CPR, MJRM). I'm sure ev...

M.Charlton wrote: ↑22:05 Fri 24 Apr 2026Assignments have already been made - please refer to the first post.

Apologies, I had failed to notice.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑20:53 Mon 16 Feb 2026An early draft of the placemats has been added to the first post.

These have been updated. Please check carefully.

M.Charlton wrote: ↑21:25 Fri 24 Apr 2026Both QH and BBR 77s. Sorry if it's a faff with the placemats...

Done. Attention is needed to who is bringing which?

jdaw1 wrote: ↑20:53 Mon 16 Feb 2026An early draft of the placemats has been added to the first post. Doubtless many changes to come.

Pls could there be a decision about whether we are having both the QH and the BBR 1977s.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑20:16 Sat 18 Apr 2026• Soup of the day (if not spicy);
• Burger + Cheese + Streaky Bacon, + skinny fries;
• Welsh rarebit.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑16:32 Fri 24 Apr 2026I'd like to amend my food order slightly please. I'll replace the carrots for a side of chunky creamed sweetcorn!

Please may I add the new chunky creamed sweetcorn.

QH decanted 07:35. Seemingly all well.

winesecretary wrote: ↑22:16 Wed 22 Apr 2026I’ll be Noel Coward as I’m probably the only one with a smoking jacket. I nominate Zak for the Michael Caine role.

And who is to be Benny Hill?

Christopher wrote: ↑22:59 Wed 22 Apr 2026I am afraid the Capela is in Cambridgeshire
Julian will adopt the Niepoort Bioma

The placemats have been updated again (VC), likely for the last time.

nac wrote: ↑20:41 Wed 22 Apr 2026Says MPM bringing T. He’s not, I am.

Fixed.

Rather than get my case of SW00 out of bond to take a single bottle to this tasting, I've ordered a bottle from Davy's stocks - it's available in the shop but isn't on the wine list at the Boot & Flogger so it will be a special order. The first post claims that NAC also has SW00. SW availabilit...

mcoulson wrote: ↑18:10 Wed 22 Apr 2026Shall I do the printing ?

Yes please, but not yet. Let the VC be found. Let other changes happen this evening — probability more than 25%. Pls print in the morning of tomorrow = Thursday 23^rd.

flash_uk wrote: ↑18:26 Mon 20 Apr 2026Have a G77 that is also desperate to attend.

The placemats have been accordingly amended. Somebody please check.

Is there space for a last minute attendee? The Committee has considered your application, and decided that this time it is to be permitted. Assuming there is space for me to squeeze in There is. I shall bring a bottle of Dow Bomfim 1992 … also bring a half bottle of Dow Senhora da Ribeira 2022 The ...

If we want a 19th(!) bottle, I'll bring the QHBBR77 as I can't imagine opening it in more appropriate company anytime soon. In the absence of a positive reply, I will not bring it. Of course we want it. Requires a re-think of the layout of the placemats , but of course we want it. And you are the o...

Food choice from the menu:
• Soup of the day (if not spicy);
• Burger + Cheese + Streaky Bacon, + skinny fries;
• Welsh rarebit.

Organiser: for placemats, pls say who is bringing which?

At the weekend I’ll make TN threads, and move the pictures in the previous post to the appropriate one. Links: Review of the evening as a whole ; Tasting notes: 2011 Quinta do Vale Meão ; 2011 Quarles Harris ; 2011 Capela do Vesúvio ; 2011 Graham Stone Terraces ; 2011 Vesuvio ; 2011 Graham ; 2011 F...