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To be fair to the Commercial Director, he did say ‘will’ and not ‘is’.

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Goat’s cheese salad
Roast lamb
Welsh rarebit

Much appreciated

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@Phil_W - Thank you for reminding me. 6th October is good then!

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I have 'Fonseca v Niepoort Vertical' in my diary for 6 October.

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Agreed a great idea for a tasting.

Cockburn 1967 for me. There’s one somewhere in the cellar. Or Warre 1970. There’s a fair bit of that!

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1887!

This tasting is becoming ever more mad/fabulous/hilarious.

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@ Harry - that is absurdly gratifying. Hurrah!

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Reconfirming for 17th.

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If I had Taylor 77 of the quality and vif of the last bottle of Harry’s I drank, I’d happily drink Taylor 77 with pork of any description. Or indeed, with any foodstuff whatsoever. Or without.

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Ooh, Lake Isle Wines in Uppingham. Blast from the past.

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Yes please

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I would go older but not too old. 1985 Smith Woodhouse, that kind of thing.

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There were a good number of pleasant wines at this tasting and five really good ones. But to me it's now a vintage to pop and pour and watch develop in glass.

Neil, thank you very much for arranging / cat herding.

winesecretary · Re: 60 @ 66 - Tuesday 14 April 2026 Julian, thank you very much.

Julian, thank you very much.

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Paling red, orange rim. Nose has a bit of eucalyptus. Palate has oranges. Rather attractive but definitely fading.

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Nice red, orange rim. Nose a little spirity. Palate unexciting, bit of orange, pleasant.

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Dirty brown. Cloudy. Palate deeply unexciting. Not right - maderised.

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Ian's bottle. Nose a bit dirty. Not right on the palate.

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Not Private Cellar, but Harry's bottle. A lovely deep red. Full of life and bright fruit. This is belting bottle of a really good port.

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A good deep garnet. Nose has cinnamon. Rich, but with an unusually dry palate. A bit soiled.

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Glorious deep colour. Good thick port, really lovely early, but fading later.

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Orange rim. wine still red. Spirit on the nose. Palate somewhat attenuated.

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A glorious garnet.

Splendid rich port, still vigorous and full of and cherry notes. Long, long, long.

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Yellowish rim, wine browning. Palate has some turkish delight, and a nice eucalyptus note. Attractive.

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A lovely garnet. Muddy nose and palate. Pulled together a little later.

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Orange rim. Licorice nose. Cherries on the palate. Cherry stones on palate. Very pretty.

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Yellow rim. Wine otherwise brownish. Pleasant stuff but too old.

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A cloudy orange. Palate also has orange. Clearly past best.

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A cloudy deep red. I found nothing to say about the palate.

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A lovely pale red. Eucalyptus on the nose, also a sarsaparilla note, and cherry cola on the palate. Lovely long delicate red-fruited finish.

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Yellow rim. Nose muddy. Wine cloudy. Seems over the hill, but does seem to gather itself together a little later.

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Browning red, orange rim. Not much on nose. Palate has cough-drop but not much else.

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Red in centre, yellowing rim. Nose has pontefract cakes. Strawberries on the palate. Lovely warm wine. Would be lovely to drink a bottle of this on its own.

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Might I make a request for review and tasting note threads? I know how to create them, but I don't know how to link them, so make the request rather than simply going ahead and thereby, I fear, possibly creating some tedious work for someone else.

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@ Christopher - added

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I’m good for the 16th.

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I’m game, again date dependent.

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Please put me on the reserve list… I have none of the wines, in the specified time period, as for some reason Noval and I have very rarely chimed.

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So, assuming the bottle that Alex noted in 2013 to have been a sample with a different cork, the (statistically invalid) ratio of corked bottles appears a bit disturbing. I am willing to contribute to the cost of purchasing another bottle from a different cellar to those tasted so far, to see if we ...

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Have a lovely time!

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Will anyone be offering in halves, a chap said, in vain hope?

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Deep dark colour (as they all were bar the Graham and the Vale Meao). Nose developing nicely. Lovely wine with gobs of fruit but distinctly unready. I like it a lot, as did the group, but I'll leave it for a couple of decades.

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Dumb nose at first, which developed a little, later. Brutal palate, and fiercely dry. Shut down hard.

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Rubbery nose. Nice rich fruit. Thick and chocolatey with a ginger pudding note. Imperfect in this company.

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That nose! That palate! That glass staining colour! Lovely, lovely fruit. Closing down, but great.

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Rich and rather lovely for drinking now. If you were thirsty, you could probably drink quite a lot of it. A little warm, late. Very enjoyable.

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Positively butch, and a bit sinewy, on the palate. Not right. Corked? More air revealed - yes, corked.

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My first encounter with 2011 Quarles Harris. A happy encounter too. Lovely nose of bramble not blackcurrant. Palate full of lovely fruit. Got an HM from me (and another).

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Fabulous perfume. Big rich palate with enormous depth, and depths. The tannins are firm but ripe. Astonishingly good port. I will be dead before it reaches its summit, but I look forward to opening and drinking the occasional bottle too early. WOTN by a country mile.

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Big rich soft sweet port. Nice drinking but on this showing wil not make old bones. There was speculation that this bottle might be a bit sub-par. A resounding zero points, which I would have bet quite heavily against.

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