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- 09:30 Mon 17 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Vesuvio
- Replies: 4
- Views: 204
Re: 2000 Vesuvio
Lovely fragrance. Good grapey palate. Sweet blackcurrant and blueberry. Young but very good. Perfect balance.
- 09:28 Mon 17 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Graham
- Replies: 3
- Views: 144
Re: 2000 Graham
Dark. Cool clean palate that captures the richness of the house. Lots of mocha tannins on the finish still.
- 09:25 Mon 17 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Warre
- Replies: 4
- Views: 211
Re: 2000 Warre
Very dark. Wonderful rich figgy port.
- 09:25 Mon 17 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Dow
- Replies: 3
- Views: 154
Re: 2000 Dow
Full rich red. Palate's good - some nice cherry fruit. But quite brutal, early. Gets much better, later. Will one day be very good.
- 09:24 Mon 17 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Croft
- Replies: 6
- Views: 218
Re: 2000 Croft
Lighter colour, muted nose. Quite attractive violet and turkish delight nose. Pleasant but no more than that.
- 00:09 Mon 17 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 2003 Horizontal - Tue 18 March 2025
- Replies: 58
- Views: 11825
Re: 2003 Horizontal - Tue 18 March 2025
I will attempt to pick up Ni and TTD from my country cellar next weekend.
- 21:42 Sun 16 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thursday 27th March 2025 - Virtual Tasting
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4795
Re: Thursday 27th March 2025 - Virtual Tasting
Alas I can no longer do this date.
I will however be listening to Verdi’s Requiem which will be appropriately sorrowful for missing a port tasting.
I will however be listening to Verdi’s Requiem which will be appropriately sorrowful for missing a port tasting.
- 13:39 Sat 15 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 19 Feb 25 (TBC) - Niche-interest bottlings & old reliables
- Replies: 94
- Views: 19197
Re: 19 Feb 25 (TBC) - Niche-interest bottlings & old reliables
Julian, please can my food order be changed to the second food order I went for, the first food order I had forgotten about. Sorry.
- 22:21 Fri 14 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Help with handwriting
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1443
Re: Help with handwriting
I’ll do a draft transcript over the weekend… for wine label people this stuff is current spelling.
- 17:10 Fri 14 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Fonseca
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1857
Re: 2000 Fonseca
Deep and dark. Big lush sweet thick port. Liked.
[Reading the tasting notes I wonder if Julian's Taylor and Fonseca glasses got switched.]
[Reading the tasting notes I wonder if Julian's Taylor and Fonseca glasses got switched.]
- 17:08 Fri 14 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Taylor
- Replies: 3
- Views: 193
Re: 2000 Taylor
Paling rim. Spicy nose, then spirit. Dries quite quickly on the palate. Chocolate tannins.
- 22:17 Thu 13 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2009 Quevedo Colheita Quinta Vale d’Agodinho Bottled 2024
- Replies: 0
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2009 Quevedo Colheita Quinta Vale d’Agodinho Bottled 2024
From 90ml 95% opaque, red rim, has a particularly deep glossiness. Conventionally red fruited nose. Denser, heavier, thicker than the straight 2009 Colheita. Lots of chocolate and Agen prune on the finish. Must be a very different grape blend! Is it better? Probably. Is it more interesting? Hmm. Tha...
- 21:59 Thu 13 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2009 Quevedo Colheita bottled 2024
- Replies: 0
- Views: 90
2009 Quevedo Colheita bottled 2024
From 90ml
Bottled 2024
95% opaque, red rim
With a bit of swirling, slightly lifted (pleasant hint of VA) nose of raspberries and redcurrants and garrigue and fennel seed.
Dried orange peel on palate, toffee finish. Dentyne. Kola kubes.
Quite interesting, quite nice.
Drink up.
Bottled 2024
95% opaque, red rim
With a bit of swirling, slightly lifted (pleasant hint of VA) nose of raspberries and redcurrants and garrigue and fennel seed.
Dried orange peel on palate, toffee finish. Dentyne. Kola kubes.
Quite interesting, quite nice.
Drink up.
- 14:33 Wed 12 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 1970 Horizontal, flights 1-4, Friday 3 October 2025
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3670
Re: 1970 Horizontal, flights 1-4, Friday 3 October 2025
@flash - for most of the majors, people probably have three bottles - so could possibly bring a backup?
- 12:50 Wed 12 Feb 2025
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: 2000 Horizontal, Mon 10 Feb 2025, B&F
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4078
Re: 2000 Horizontal, Mon 10 Feb 2025, B&F
Most enlightening evening. Thank you for being such good company. My thanks in particular to nac for broaching so many cases, and to Julian for (re) organising as I threatened to succumb to work. A broad spread of good to very good ports, with a small number of disappointing ones. But nothing really...
- 21:02 Tue 11 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 1970 Horizontal, flights 1-4, Friday 3 October 2025
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3670
Re: 1970 Horizontal, flights 1-4, Friday 3 October 2025
Reconfirmed. I know I have Warre and GB but will check what else idc.
- 20:56 Tue 11 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 1970 Horizontal, flight 0, Thursday 2 October 2025
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1082
Re: 1970 Horizontal, flight 0, Thursday 2 October 2025
I reconfirm availability for Flight 0. I still have the Feuerheerd.
- 12:13 Mon 10 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Sainsbury's Taste The Difference
- Replies: 3
- Views: 170
Re: 2000 Sainsbury's Taste The Difference
I should add - this has very clearly been recorked- presumably to remove a branded one.
- 11:42 Mon 10 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Sainsbury's Taste The Difference
- Replies: 3
- Views: 170
Re: 2000 Sainsbury's Taste The Difference
Opened 09/02/25 2130
Decanted 10/2/25 1130
Rich thick sediment
QA sample promising
Decanted 10/2/25 1130
Rich thick sediment
QA sample promising
- 11:41 Mon 10 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Osborne
- Replies: 2
- Views: 165
Re: 2000 Osborne
A bottle purchased at auction in about 2018.
Opened 09/02/25 2130
Decanted 10/2/25 1130
Thick heavy sediment
QA sample fine.
Opened 09/02/25 2130
Decanted 10/2/25 1130
Thick heavy sediment
QA sample fine.
- 09:29 Mon 10 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Gould Campbell
- Replies: 2
- Views: 143
Re: 2000 Gould Campbell
Opened 09/02/25 2130 decanted 10/2/25 0930.
Immense amounts of thick sediment.
Quality assessment sample suggests this is a bruiser.
Immense amounts of thick sediment.
Quality assessment sample suggests this is a bruiser.
- 09:21 Mon 10 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Dow
- Replies: 3
- Views: 154
Re: 2000 Dow
Opened 09/02/25 2130 decanted 10/2/25 0915
Very heavy thick sediment
Quality assessment sample excellent
Very heavy thick sediment
Quality assessment sample excellent
- 09:15 Mon 10 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Niepoort Secundum
- Replies: 2
- Views: 151
Re: 2000 Niepoort Secundum
Opened 9/2/25 2130 decanted 10/2/25 0909.
Heavy fine sediment. Decanting sample fragrant.
Heavy fine sediment. Decanting sample fragrant.
- 19:04 Sun 09 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
Official start time of 1800. Some of us will be there from circa 1700, pouring things into glasses. Many hands (say, five pairs) make light work. Much more than that is likely to make it difficult to manouevre. Self, nac, one of nac's guests, alex would be fine. One or two more welcome but if the bu...
- 20:24 Fri 07 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
@ idj - Real Compania Velha? Were we that bad in a previous life?
Seriously, 20 really is enough, chaps…
Seriously, 20 really is enough, chaps…
- 20:16 Fri 07 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
I have failed to pre-deliver my ports to the B&F due to pressure of work. I will follow the Julianic method set out above.
- 23:17 Thu 06 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2012 Quevedo Colheita Quinta Vale D’Agodinho
- Replies: 0
- Views: 112
2012 Quevedo Colheita Quinta Vale D’Agodinho
From 90 ml bottled 2024
80% opaque, red rim
Bright cherries-in-kirsch nose.
Palate very much congruent.
Some ground almonds, late.
Nice, and interesting, but definitely unusual.
80% opaque, red rim
Bright cherries-in-kirsch nose.
Palate very much congruent.
Some ground almonds, late.
Nice, and interesting, but definitely unusual.
- 22:13 Thu 06 Feb 2025
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: 2000 Horizontal, Mon 10 Feb 2025, B&F
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4078
Re: 2000 Horizontal, Mon 10 Feb 2025, B&F
I think that technically 2000 is last century, or certainly last millennium.
- 22:06 Wed 05 Feb 2025
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Kopke Tivoli Hotel, Vila Nova de Gaia
- Replies: 19
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Re: Kopke Tivoli Hotel, Vila Nova de Gaia
In fairness to the Tivoli, the rooms at the Yeatman are ridiculously large. It feels like a quarter of a mile from door to terrace. And the baths… I decided to have a bath in my room there one evening and it took about 30 minutes to fill.
- 22:01 Wed 05 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Software that makes placemats
- Replies: 1294
- Views: 1263452
Re: Software that makes placemats
2… I can see it …
- 20:57 Wed 05 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Software that makes placemats
- Replies: 1294
- Views: 1263452
Re: Software that makes placemats
Possibly also the 00 / 2000 backdrop. Just feels right.
- 20:55 Wed 05 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Software that makes placemats
- Replies: 1294
- Views: 1263452
Re: Software that makes placemats
But also, there is a sparseness to them that is very pleasing. A bit like the sonnet form, there is a compression from the strict requirements of getting 20 in that strips them to the essentials.
- 20:54 Wed 05 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Software that makes placemats
- Replies: 1294
- Views: 1263452
Re: Software that makes placemats
20 ports
- 08:29 Wed 05 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
That is indeed a magnificent set of place mats. Thank you Julian.
- 20:54 Tue 04 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
As to whether we have too much port - a vote - do we pour small and everyone takes 1/3 of a bottle of their preference home? Or do we trim the list? A question for the ages, in a sense. Possibly a matter of both, if we end up being 12 persons, where 16 ports might be advisable. I think to get it dow...
- 17:01 Tue 04 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
We may also now have Dow.
- 17:00 Tue 04 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1966 Sandeman
- Replies: 3
- Views: 442
Re: 1966 Sandeman
Well that looks like a very good time indeed.
- 19:29 Mon 03 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 19 Feb 25 (TBC) - Niche-interest bottlings & old reliables
- Replies: 94
- Views: 19197
Re: 19 Feb 25 (TBC) - Niche-interest bottlings & old reliables
Chopped sausages
Harissa chicken, green salad on the side
Sticky toffee pudding
Harissa chicken, green salad on the side
Sticky toffee pudding
- 19:27 Mon 03 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
My food choices
Avocado bruschetta
Pie, additional green salad on the side
Welsh rarebit
Avocado bruschetta
Pie, additional green salad on the side
Welsh rarebit
- 10:30 Mon 03 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
Neil, if Harry can't make it, remove Mz and QH and I will remove TTD. 16 enough for 13. If Harry can make it then keep Mz in and I will keep TTD in. (I suspect the TTD is QH-adjacent hence that way round.)
- 21:57 Sun 02 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2012 Quevedo Colheita Tinta Francisca
- Replies: 0
- Views: 806
2012 Quevedo Colheita Tinta Francisca
From 90ml Much brighter in glass that the 2014 Colheita ex LBV. -70% opaque, cherry red. Very much fruit driven nose. Confit cherries, hint of sherbet. Bright fruit on the front palate, but then a quite dramatic shift to some interesting mature sous-bois on the finish. Possibly a little monotonal, b...
- 21:50 Sun 02 Feb 2025
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2014 Quevedo Colheita ex LBV
- Replies: 0
- Views: 100
2014 Quevedo Colheita ex LBV
From 90ml
Rim browning, but still 95% opaque
Smells of prunes and of dried figs. Fig rolls?
Congruent palate with a little bit of fruit pointing through before the finish.
Pleasant wine, fully mature.
Rim browning, but still 95% opaque
Smells of prunes and of dried figs. Fig rolls?
Congruent palate with a little bit of fruit pointing through before the finish.
Pleasant wine, fully mature.
- 21:14 Sun 02 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
Julian, thank you, helpful request for clarification - please open night before, leave open, double decant morning and seal.
- 21:07 Sun 02 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
I will drop my ports off at the B&F this week and ask that they be opened and decanted on the morning of the tasting. If you are travelling with your port, then opening and double decanting the night before should offer a similar experience.
- 21:01 Sun 02 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
@ Luke, thanks for the food order.
- 21:01 Sun 02 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
@idj - thank you, but already standing up
- 23:52 Sat 01 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
We appear to have no Dow.
- 23:50 Sat 01 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
Martin’s guest is adopting his Warre.
- 23:31 Sat 01 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
Splendid.
Luke, welcome.
Luke, welcome.
- 20:32 Sat 01 Feb 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
- Replies: 143
- Views: 32226
Re: Monday 10 February 2025 - 2000 VP Tasting
Alex M’s unavailability means we are 13, five of whom will be adopting from nac, but nac is currently providing six wines for adoptions. We either need another person, or we need to take a wine out I think (given Julian’s and my already enthusiastic oversupply).