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- 15:44 Sun 19 May 2024
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Travelling Between Quintas without a Car
- Replies: 4
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Re: Travelling Between Quintas without a Car
You take pretty much what you can get, but your hotel will have a preferred local driver and I would go with them. Having someone you can call to ask to intervene in Portuguese if your driver isn’t where you expect at the time you expect can be very helpful.
- 08:07 Sun 19 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 60/63/66 Horizontal .... 23rd July 2024
- Replies: 20
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Re: 60/63/66 Horizontal .... 23rd July 2024
That date of 30th July works in my diary.
- 00:20 Sun 19 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Delaforce tasting vertical early sept
- Replies: 12
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Re: Delaforce tasting vertical early sept
Although Tony hasn’t said so, I am presuming that anyone who can contribute a Delaforce VP from a vintage before 1935 is likely to be at the top of the list of people who will be allocated one of the available seats.
Please do say so if you have something Delaforce from 1934 or earlier.
Please do say so if you have something Delaforce from 1934 or earlier.
- 23:38 Sat 18 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 60/63/66 Horizontal .... 23rd July 2024
- Replies: 20
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Re: 60/63/66 Horizontal .... 23rd July 2024
If I get time, I’m sure I wrote a review of the event which I will try to find. It turns out it wasn’t me who wrote the article, it was Roy Hersh and he published it in his May 2006 For The Love of Port newsletter. He has kindly given me permission to reproduce it in this thread. IMG_8078.png IMG_8...
- 09:07 Fri 17 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 60/63/66 Horizontal .... 23rd July 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 567
Re: 60/63/66 Horizontal .... 23rd July 2024
I’ve found the organising thread for the tasting at the Crusting Pipe on Sunday 6th November 2005.
We tasted 1963, 1966 and 1970 from Fonseca, Graham, Sandeman and Taylor.
If I get time, I’m sure I wrote a review of the event which I will try to find.
We tasted 1963, 1966 and 1970 from Fonseca, Graham, Sandeman and Taylor.
If I get time, I’m sure I wrote a review of the event which I will try to find.
- 08:45 Fri 17 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 60/63/66 Horizontal .... 23rd July 2024
- Replies: 20
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Re: 60/63/66 Horizontal .... 23rd July 2024
Yes please.
This is a very similar theme to the first tasting we ever organised, in October 2005 before the Port Forum was created.
I’ll have to try to find a report on the evening, but if I recall correctly, we had Dow, Fonseca, Graham and Sandeman.
This is a very similar theme to the first tasting we ever organised, in October 2005 before the Port Forum was created.
I’ll have to try to find a report on the evening, but if I recall correctly, we had Dow, Fonseca, Graham and Sandeman.
- 10:07 Thu 16 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: May 23rd, 2024 - LBV - The Young Turks
- Replies: 90
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Re: LBV - The Young Turks
…my diary is rammed in April and May. I am pretty busy next week and it’s unlikely that I’ll be able to make the tasting. If I can, it will be a decision taken on the day. Please drop me to the reserves list and I’ll let you know at the last minute if there’s a seat still free which I can fill.
- 10:01 Thu 16 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
- Replies: 108
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Re: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
I’ll be there about 17.30.
- 12:32 Tue 14 May 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1955 Graham
- Replies: 3
- Views: 348
Re: 1955 Graham
Decanted at 12.30. Will be returned to the bottle about 15.00.
- 20:48 Mon 13 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
- Replies: 179
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- 14:41 Mon 13 May 2024
- Forum: Other Fortified Wines
- Topic: NV Borges Boal 10YO
- Replies: 0
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NV Borges Boal 10YO
Borges 10YO Boal. Deep brown honey colour. Fresh sweet soft tropical fruit on the nose. As anticipated, the balance on the palate is better than on the 5YO with the acidity and burnt honey playing together nicely. There is plenty of fragrant and bitter citrus on the big aftertaste and even a little ...
- 14:36 Mon 13 May 2024
- Forum: Other Fortified Wines
- Topic: 1986 Borges Bual
- Replies: 0
- Views: 33
1986 Borges Bual
Borges Boal 1986, bottled 2021. A warm, rich amber colour. Fragrant nose bringing together orange and honey. The sweet orange dominates the palate, but with a lightness of touch that is quite charming. Orange and marmalade dominate the aftertaste giving a long and rather tasty finish. Very nice. 90/...
- 14:34 Mon 13 May 2024
- Forum: Other Fortified Wines
- Topic: 1968 Blandy Sercial
- Replies: 0
- Views: 35
1968 Blandy Sercial
Blandy 1968 Sercial, bottled 2017. Delicious; balanced with the fruit dominating and enough acidity to keep the wine fresh and full of life. Lovely, full of flavour without being dominated by the acidity. 92/100. Tasted 07-May-2024.
- 14:31 Mon 13 May 2024
- Forum: Other Fortified Wines
- Topic: 1991 Blandy Malmsey
- Replies: 0
- Views: 31
1991 Blandy Malmsey
Bottled 2023. Sweet and flavoursome with sweet fruit. Very pleasant. 89/100. Tasted 08-May-2024.
- 14:29 Mon 13 May 2024
- Forum: Other Fortified Wines
- Topic: 1995 Cossart Gordon Malmsey
- Replies: 0
- Views: 31
1995 Cossart Gordon Malmsey
Bottled 2023. Tasted 07-May-2024. Fresher and brighter than the Blandy 1991 Malmsey. Packed full of wonderful bitter-sweet orange marmalade. Irresistible. 92/100.
- 13:17 Mon 13 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
- Replies: 108
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Re: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
I've just seen the pictures - now I am feeling rather thirsty!
- 09:15 Fri 10 May 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Burmester
- Replies: 4
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Re: 1994 Burmester
Mature copper-red colour, 60% opaque. Bright nose with rounded mature fruit; very expressive with a little sous-bois. Gentle, mature fruit on the palate. Mid-weight and slow to reveal what it has to show but the wine steadily builds up to be a wonderful mouthful of a berry-juice reduction. The after...
- 12:13 Sun 05 May 2024
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Historic Ports from the Cellars of Raby Castle
- Replies: 5
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Historic Ports from the Cellars of Raby Castle
Raby Castle - aerial view 2.png Rabi was a settlement built by the Vikings in what is now County Durham during the time of King Cnut in the early 11th century. The castle was built in the 14th century by the Neville family, who held it until it was confiscated by the Crown after the unsuccessful Ri...
- 21:44 Sat 04 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 50 Year Old Tawnies - 1 October 2024
- Replies: 36
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Re: 50 Year Old Tawnies (and potential friends) - 2023 (or later)
I currently have Kopke 50YO Tawny and Kopke 50YO White, although both are at risk of being drunk.
Everything else I had, has been drunk.
Everything else I had, has been drunk.
- 16:51 Sat 04 May 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 50 Year Old Tawnies - 1 October 2024
- Replies: 36
- Views: 23870
Re: 50 Year Old Tawnies (and potential friends) - 2023 (or later)
good for me too.M.Charlton wrote: ↑11:16 Fri 03 May 2024 Now SFE have released, it’s time to get a date in the diary for this! How about 1 October 2024?
- 14:23 Sat 27 Apr 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Emergency? - Tues 30 April
- Replies: 7
- Views: 576
Re: Emergency? - Tues 30 April
Sorry, I can’t make it to London on Tuesday evening.
- 21:18 Thu 25 Apr 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
- Replies: 179
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Re: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
I've just spoken with the B&F and there is defiantly no Bearnaise sauce available That's a real shame, they've been fine with it for a long time as long as we ordered in advance. Ah well - thanks for trying; I've updated above to have peppercorn instead. Maybe we'll persuade them to bring it ba...
- 21:17 Thu 25 Apr 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Graham (or Malvedos) vertical, Tue 14 May 2024
- Replies: 179
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- 21:14 Thu 25 Apr 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 1882 Magazine from Symington Family Estates
- Replies: 40
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Re: 1882 Magazine from Symington Family Estates
Sorry peeps, if you didn’t request a copy first time round, I don’t have any left.
If you did request a copy first time round, my records indicate that everything requested was successfully delivered…
If you did request a copy first time round, my records indicate that everything requested was successfully delivered…
- 23:17 Wed 24 Apr 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
- Replies: 108
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Re: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
I’ll have smoked salmon starter (with the chilli dressing on the side), and a main of slow roasted belly pork with fries instead of sweet potato mash and a side of roasted carrots.