That would make for a rather interesting comparison!
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- 21:41 Thu 16 Jan 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 2003 Horizontal - Tue 18 March 2025
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10104
- 23:23 Tue 07 Jan 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 2003 Horizontal - Tue 18 March 2025
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10104
Re: 2003 Horizontal - Tue 18 March 2025
Graham halves have been successfully liberated and are now resting in Bristol.
- 23:22 Tue 07 Jan 2025
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Vargellas Tasting, Date TBC in 2025
- Replies: 38
- Views: 25225
Re: Vargellas Tasting, Date TBC in 2025
I might be about to make this, please can I be added to (I assume) the waitlist.
- 10:13 Fri 03 Jan 2025
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: A short goodbye.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2715
Re: A short goodbye.
Very sad news indeed, fingers crossed you're able to spend plenty of time with family and friends, and to enjoy some good indulgences. I'll raise a glass to you next time I'm enjoying some good port.
- 23:50 Sun 15 Dec 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thursday 27th March 2025 - Virtual Tasting
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3179
Re: Thursday 27th March 2025 - Virtual Tasting
Yes please, I have LBVs that fit the bill and need drinking!
- 19:32 Wed 20 Nov 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thursday 5th December - Online/Virtual Tasting
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7531
- 15:21 Wed 20 Nov 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thursday 5th December - Online/Virtual Tasting
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7531
Re: Thursday 5th November - Online/Virtual Tasting
I could be interested but my time machine isn't quite perfected yet. Could the 5th December be a more reasonable date?
- 22:54 Mon 18 Nov 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 83
- Views: 60243
Re: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
Thanks Martin for organising and setting a theme that was definitely not mostly ignored. It was a fun evening and I am looking forward to a snooze on the way back to Bristol. Fwiw the 2005 S-W Madalena was given about 6 hours in decanter before being re-bottled and stoppered yesterday. I might searc...
- 20:33 Sun 17 Nov 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 83
- Views: 60243
- 19:42 Sun 17 Nov 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 83
- Views: 60243
Re: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
I should be able to get to the B&F around 5 to help set up. Please let me know if this is too early otherwise I'll aim for that.
- 22:27 Sat 09 Nov 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 83
- Views: 60243
Re: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
Thanks gents.
- 09:20 Sat 09 Nov 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 83
- Views: 60243
Re: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
Julian has kindly offered to provide placemats Re placemats, will anybody need more than one circle? Julian, I plan to bring something that is not port but I hope to be at least interesting if not very enjoyable for the group, but I'm unclear if it needs a circle or can just be enjoyed aside from t...
- 21:04 Thu 07 Nov 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 83
- Views: 60243
Re: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
Julian has kindly offered to provide placemats Re placemats, will anybody need more than one circle? Julian, I plan to bring something that is not port but I hope to be at least interesting if not very enjoyable for the group, but I'm unclear if it needs a circle or can just be enjoyed aside from t...
- 13:35 Sat 02 Nov 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 83
- Views: 60243
Re: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
Lady & Gents .... since the B&F have again changed their menu can I please ask you all to make your choices for food This weeks menu can be found here . Please may I have the following: Starter: Burrata Main: Bangers and mash (the larger portion size please!) + spinach Dessert: Chocolate br...
- 22:01 Wed 23 Oct 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 2003 Horizontal - Tue 18 March 2025
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10104
Re: 2003 Horizontal - 2025 date TBC
Currently I can attend on that evening
- 13:26 Fri 18 Oct 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 2003 Horizontal - Tue 18 March 2025
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10104
Re: 2003 Horizontal - 2025 date TBC
Yes please! I believe I have at least one 2003 available and will edit this message to add that information when I find out what.
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Graham, in halves.
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Graham, in halves.
- 21:39 Thu 17 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2246
- Views: 1048171
Re: Latest buy
We definitely agreed on that! I look forward to reading your tasting notes on the crusted port.MigSU wrote:A lovely white colheita.
- 21:25 Thu 17 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2246
- Views: 1048171
Re: Latest buy
A small haul from my latest trip to Portugal, the white Colheita being the gem of the bunch.

- 12:17 Thu 17 Oct 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Pintas Vertical
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8962
Re: Pintas Vertical
I would be interested in attending and I might actually have a single bottle kicking around. When I'm back in Bristol I'll check and if I do I'll add it here. I thought I had a bottle of Pintas but I cannot find one (or a record of having purchased one) so please drop me to the reserves and I'll ma...
- 22:43 Tue 15 Oct 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Pintas Vertical
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8962
Re: Pintas Vertical
I would be interested in attending and I might actually have a single bottle kicking around. When I'm back in Bristol I'll check and if I do I'll add it here.
- 22:34 Tue 15 Oct 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 83
- Views: 60243
Re: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
Thank you! Travel has been booked so you can mark me as confirmed.mcoulson wrote:Mike your outRich your in [emoji38] Book away .....
- 20:27 Mon 14 Oct 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 83
- Views: 60243
Re: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
Is there space for this? If so please bump me to the attendees and I'll book travel.
- 23:23 Tue 08 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: NV Sandeman Tawny 20YO
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2444
NV Sandeman Tawny 20YO
It's Sandeman. It's their 20YO Tawny. I'm not telling anyone here anything they don't already know, so this one's for me. Nose is butterscotch and red berries. A touch of oak and vanilla. Sweet and slightly spirity. Palate opens with red fruit - more strawberries and less tart than the nose. Caramel...
- 23:21 Tue 08 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: NV Don Pablo Tawny
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2294
NV Don Pablo Tawny
Enjoyed at the top of the Torre da Igreja do Castelo de São Jorge as an included drink. I didn't fully pay attention to this in terms of making notes but I think that's probably what it deserved. Fairly simple as you might expect from a tawny like this, with redcurrants dominating the palate along w...
- 21:43 Sun 06 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2015 Quinta Seara d'Ordens
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1319
Re: 2015 Quinta Seara d'Ordens
I went to university with the son of the owners, and he's now very involved in the winemaking (we did oenology together). They're a very decent producer. Their table wines are hit and miss, but their Ports are of a very consistent quality. Not top tier but very decent. That's good to hear. I enjoye...
- 20:46 Sun 06 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2015 Quinta Seara d'Ordens
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1319
2015 Quinta Seara d'Ordens
Spotted on the dessert menu at Pizza na Pedro in Olhao in the Algarve, I decided to take a punt on this as I'd never heard of the producer before. Fully opaque in the "romantically" lit dining area, this looks like a very young VP, which isn't that much of a surprise at a sprightly 9 years...
- 12:28 Sun 06 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: NV Bulas Tawny 10YO
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2477
NV Bulas Tawny 10YO
Purchased in a whim at Hooked fish bar for dessert alongside a scoop of vanilla gelato that arrived late enough not to ruin my palate (but paired up beautifully once it did). Medium brick red, maybe fading to the edges. Not a complex nose, dominated by a bright caramel nose. On the palate it's a dif...
- 12:21 Sun 06 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Corkage on the rise
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2844
Re: Corkage on the rise
...with a corkage fee of £25 for a bottle of Italian wine or £40 for a wine from another country. This made me chuckle! And I don't think charging up to the cheapest bottle on the menu is unreasonable since that's probably around the value of the mark up on an average bottle for them, which obvious...
- 13:40 Sat 05 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port for sale by retailer
- Replies: 1595
- Views: 995755
Re: Port for sale by retailer
Seckfords sale - 12 double magnums of Taylor 2011 at £190 each in bond. They now appear to be £220. Obviously, dynamic pricing in play…! You have to follow the link from their email, if you go on the site you won't be able to find the same deal. Ah, funnily enough, I noticed the other day that they...
- 22:53 Fri 04 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port for sale by retailer
- Replies: 1595
- Views: 995755
- 18:21 Wed 25 Sep 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2246
- Views: 1048171
Re: Latest buy
That's a bargain!Rummy wrote:Just bought cases (6) of Fonseca 85 and Vesuvio 92 at auction. About £650 including shipping.
- 23:26 Sat 07 Sep 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 83
- Views: 60243
Re: Bring a bottle - Mon 2nd Dec 2024
Please put me down on the reserve list. I may be in California but if not this sounds fun.
- 22:46 Tue 27 Aug 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 1982 Horizontal - Tue 10th Sept 2024
- Replies: 97
- Views: 40774
Re: 1982 (and 1983?) Horizontal - Tue 10th Sept 2024
I can no longer make this, please feel free to remove me from the reserves.
- 10:10 Wed 24 Jul 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 1982 Horizontal - Tue 10th Sept 2024
- Replies: 97
- Views: 40774
Re: 1982 Horizontal
I'm interested but may be elsewhere in the UK so can I please be added to the reserve list and I'll confirm closer to the time if there's still space or any late drop outs.
- 17:28 Fri 12 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2007 Marks and Spencer VP
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2211
Re: 2007 Marks and Spencer VP
@rich_n - It's certainly delicious now. YMMV, but I think if I had six I would drink one every three years from now to watch its development. Happily I have a multiple of that, so I'll probably have one a year. It's arguably ready to drink - and I think it will be better at 20 than at 40 - but I su...
- 21:26 Thu 11 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2007 Marks and Spencer VP
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2211
Re: 2007 Marks and Spencer VP
I don’t seem to have made a note on this for almost three years. Tempus fugit. Pop and decant and pour. Dark red rim, impenetrable core. Swirling releases blueberry muffin and white pepper. Very smooth palate. Possibly starting to slip from the red fruit spectrum to the plum spectrum, but the cranb...
- 13:13 Tue 09 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2246
- Views: 1048171
Re: Latest buy
I've just bought some S20 year tawny mostly for the bottles so I'm a bit more organised for the next double blind sillyness .... However it has the advantage (??) that Mandy has decided she quite likes it and I'm watching the first bottle rapidly empty ..... That's a fantastic excuse to buy a very ...
- 17:23 Mon 08 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2246
- Views: 1048171
Re: Latest buy
Thanks for your confirmation that it was worth a look!Alex Bridgeman wrote:That really is a good price for a rather tasty Port that’s drinking very nicely at the moment.
- 15:24 Mon 08 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2246
- Views: 1048171
Re: Latest buy
Thanks to some wiser heads than mine providing some useful insight on the 1991 vintage I acquired 12 bottles of the Dow from auction as a "drink now" port. Can't complain at a smidge under £36 a bottle all in. OWC and bottles all look in good nick. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240708...
- 10:15 Sun 07 Jul 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thursday 4th July - Election Night Special
- Replies: 75
- Views: 22798
Re: Thursday 4th July - Election Night Special
I've commented elsewhere before that I think 2005 is much better than its general reputation. I have very much enjoyed Quevedo, Niepoort, Taylor Terra Feita and Churchill Gricha; despite their youth, they seem to be in a rather nice place currently. I'd like to try more of their peers; perhaps a sm...
- 20:38 Sat 06 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2001 Warre Quinta da Cavadinha
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1194
Re: 2001 Warre Quinta da Cavadinha
A very enjoyable glass of port - sounds like you found as much orange in this as I did. I'm a fan of that!
- 07:19 Sat 06 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2001 Warre Qd Cavadinha
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1874
Re: 2001 Warre Qd Cavadinha
I love Cavadinha. It’s not a bold style like FG or Malvedos, but more elegant that just gets better with age. I have a few bottles of this from when it was being sold off cheaply by one of the supermarkets and I'll be holding some of them to see how it ages. The first bottle I opened a few years ag...
- 21:01 Fri 05 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2005 Taylor Terra Feita
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1381
2005 Taylor Terra Feita
PnP A quick QC check shows a lovely red cherry nose with a little spice and a touch of eucalyptus. Palate is lovely too even though this clearly needs decanting time - lovely red fruits followed by spice and pepper in the mid palate and a soft milk chocolate finish carrying the fruit through. Some t...
- 18:55 Fri 05 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1997 Dow
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2807
1997 Dow
Opened as part of a port tasting with friends to introduce them to a number of styles. A beauty of a port but still such a baby right now. It's past its ugly teenage years but still has so much of its charm in its fruit forward nose and palate. Beautifully balanced with a touch of white pepper spici...
- 18:54 Fri 05 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2018 Barros
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2771
2018 Barros
Opened as part of a port tasting with friends to introduce them to a number of styles. Lots of black fruits on the nose, maybe some eucalyptus. On the palate this is a fruit bomb, leading with bramble - a lot of blackcurrant and blackberries - and then flooding with heavy tannins. Still very young w...
- 18:54 Fri 05 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2001 Warre Qd Cavadinha
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1874
2001 Warre Qd Cavadinha
Opened as part of a port tasting with friends to introduce them to a number of styles. Red fruits with a citrus note on the nose. Beautiful entry on the palate, with strawberries and red cherries giving way to a gorgeous wave of orange acidity - think posh orange jelly sweets. The tannins kick in la...
- 18:53 Fri 05 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: NV Graham Six Grapes
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2793
NV Graham Six Grapes
Opened as part of a port tasting with friends to introduce them to a number of styles.
Strawberries and caramel, a fairly simple but entirely delightful reserve port. I have plenty of this and will continue to top up my reserves as necessary.
Strawberries and caramel, a fairly simple but entirely delightful reserve port. I have plenty of this and will continue to top up my reserves as necessary.
- 18:52 Fri 05 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2000 Warre
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2546
2000 Warre
Purchased through Seckford from stock held by and originally shipped to them - a half bottle cracked to share with family on Christmas Day 2023. Deep red to brick red on the very rim. Decant +6 hours. Very simple sweet red cherries on the nose, but so much more on that palate. Luscious sweet red che...
- 18:50 Fri 05 Jul 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2015 Taylor LBV
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2337
2015 Taylor LBV
Opened in the week coming up to Christmas 2023. PnP On the nose this has deep red cherry and an earthy nose. Maybe some caramel sweetness? Spicy fruit on the palate, strawberries leading the charge, maybe with a little vanilla. A minerality that grounds it all, coming back around to that spice again...
- 18:45 Fri 05 Jul 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thursday 4th July - Election Night Special
- Replies: 75
- Views: 22798
Re: Thursday 4th July - Election Night Special
Absolutely, and the remains of the '05 Terra Feita are absolutely singing right now - I will be keeping an eye out for bottles of this in the future.hadge wrote: at least we can agree on how great port is.