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Cidadelhe is a Tinta according to my lazy research so for N

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I am up for this. I also have quite a few of these.

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Please put me on this listed as a reserve as I have none of the wines plus I have a hearing floating that week so I am sorry to say I am a 50% bet to attend.

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ETA 2000

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I’m on for this

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Updated to include shipper. It might not have been in the first five bottles opened that evening.

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A lovely pale pink.

Super, lightweight port. Pretty cranberry scented almond essence stuff. Acidity a bit prominent.

This is ravishing port in the lighter vein. Pop and decant and pour and enjoy.

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Deep purple rim.

Big blowsy blue fruited nose. Big golluping juicy palate. Still somewhere in the primary spectrum. Attractive port. Not in the same league as the 1994, but you don’t need to wait, and drinkable with considerable pleasure.

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Pale rim. Jammy nose. Nose a bit dirty. Palate not right. Increasingly unpleasant finish. Wrong.

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From 90ml 2025 Advent Calendar This is white only in the sense that it is not exactly red. It is a deep, glorious, mahogany. Nose is thick with rancio and orange oil. If something can be described as having a viscous nose this has it. Palate is rich and sweet and full of the finest sultanas, before ...

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At a concert I am afraid…

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Tom K's food choices

Smoked salmon
Pan roasted cod
Lemon tart

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Pop and decant and pour. Still deeply coloured with a ruby rim. Nose still has the blueberries but there’s some plum showing. Palate is super-smooth with lush fruit, a little blueberry at first and a brief flash of redcurrant before the poached plum tones start to move in. Moves seamlessly to the ch...

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@ mcoulson - might you negotiate on our behalf re the NN?

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A bottle not required for the Fonseca vertical so consumed. This tasting note take on night 3 when it is at its most harmonious. A deep inky wine 95% opaque with a reddish-purple rim. Plummy nose, richly and sweetly fruited - a summer fruit coulis on vanilla ice cream. Cassia bark. Very sweet palate...

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If anyone does have the NN, the last bottle I had some 12 years ago was splendid and so I would be up for a group adoption.

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I’m in. I have the 97, 87, and 77 options, but only from the 20th century, alas.

Obviously also 2017 and 2007. Maybe I’ll bring a Niepoort 17 to see how it is getting on.

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I think I have W and that’s about it. I’ll check at the end of the month.

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I am fairly sure that all I have is N but will check at end of the month.

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Alas, strike Darrel from the list, I have double checked and he can't do that evening.

winesecretary · Re: 60 @ 66 - Tuesday 14 April 2026 Yes for self

Yes for self

winesecretary · Re: 66 @ 60 - Tuesday 17 March 2026 Yes for self, and also for Darrel R.

Yes for self, and also for Darrel R.

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Diageo I suspect is going to go on a bit of a spree.

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Ham Hock Terrine
Chicken Supreme, Side of Mixed Salad
Welsh Rarebit

Am checking what Tom wants.

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Nice port with lots of strawberry. Probably has a way to go to peak.

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Nicely balanced, with the very-much-alive fruit matching the tobacco on the nose. Good but not superb today.

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Very dark. Good vigorous dark fruit on palate and nose. Plums and white pepper on the finish. Still in its pomp.

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A deep sticky red. Fabulous strawberry fruit. Very much liked.

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Orange rim. Nose a bit indeterminate. Less exciting fruit than hoped. Not right.

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Lovely deep red. Palate has some sweet red fruit, but again it's a little bit hot, with white pepper and even a hint of chilli. Quite successful.

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Browning rim. Licorice and prune on the palate. Balance is lovely. Faded, very much later, but still finished.

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More successful. Nice fruit, but still a little warm towards the end.

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Pale rim. Anonymous nose. Acceptable fruit but not great.

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Hot nose. Palate is smooth, finish is too hot. Very much inferior to the other 63s today, persistently hot finish. I didn't finish it.

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Not much on the nose. Lovely fruit, but less complexity so junior to the Fonseca and the Taylor on this showing.

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Very sweet nose. Fine sweet fruit, but the finish fading later.

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'No problems here' my note says. Lovely. Sweet and full of fruit, with some cinnamon and mace late. Excellent balance.

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At first, nose seemed slightly dirty, palate sweet, finish a bit attenuated. Was it wrong?

No!

It was under-decanted.

Needs more than an hour before going into glass.

Later, some Taylor violet on the nose, and warm sweet fruit on the palate.

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Tannins and even a hint on mint on the nose. Full, plummy fruit on the mid-palate, with characteristic old Noval mi-cuit fig. No hint of heat on the finish but a gentle warmth. A good but not outstanding bottle of this still-lovely port. I encouraged even the people on GLP-1 to finish their glasses ...

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@mosesbotbol - yes. Unless you get lucky, pretty much anywhere in central London you can walk in and get a table without booking (unless you are happy to queue for a substantial period of time) is not somewhere you can expect to be served what I would characterise as ‘good food’ i.e. decent ingredie...

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Not the B&F. It’s an acceptable venue but not a place to fly in to visit unless someone is holding a port vertical for you. For sensibly priced and reliably interesting Indian food Dishoom is hard to beat (there are several branches). The Cinnamon Club if you want to spend bigger money. Canton A...

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From 90ml

#17 in the 205 advent calendar

70% opaque, red rim.

Nose of garrigue and white pepper. Possibly a bit of fig?

Palate is warm and oleaginous with orange oil and a smoky peaty note. Has it been matured in a whisky barrel?

Notably syrupy, but not unattractively so.

Weird but interesting.

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About 60% opaque, paling rim.

Licorice and red fruit on nose.

Deliciously smooth entry, then a little warmth but very much a red fruited palate.

Nuts and raisins on long finish.

Successful.

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From 90ml

#15 in the 2025 Advent Calendar

A nice deep red but tawnifying to rim. 60% opaque

Nose has some Kent cobnut, a bit of rancio, not much discernible fruit at first

Palate is smooth and sweet with orange and hazelnut and more orange.

This is damn good Colheita to my palate.

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What Ho. In that case, it will be Tom K., one of my colleagues, who will adopt from me.

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Hello Glenn. My initial thought is that condition 9(4) of Farr’s Ts and Cs may be incompatible with your rights as a consumer under section 14(2) of the Sale of Goods Act 1979. If I’m right about that, you can simply do a claim through the UK’s small claims mechanism. We can discuss further on 10 Feb.

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A lovely story for some jolly nice port!

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From 90ml

#14 in the 2025 Advent Calendar

Musty nose dominates what seems some quality fruit underneath.

Palate has some red fruit and then harsh coffee notes.

Not right.

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From 90ml #13 in the 2025 Advent Calendar 80% opaque, distinctly aged red rim Very much a well wood aged port (figs, licorice, prune) on the nose, once the initial blackcurrant hit has blown off. Palate has cherries in kirsch and high quality chocolate ganache. Quite strong vanilla note, late. A bit...

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From 90ml #12 in the 2025 advent calendar Still incredibly dark, 97% opaque. Nose is dumb, some sulky South African plum showing but that’s it. Palate is big thick leathery port, full of matiere, bulging with grape skin and tannin. Congruent finish. Not massively satisfying. A pitbull of a port. A t...

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