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Joost

I am afraid I have to cancel, plans have changed...

Alex and Jacob thank you for your possitive response, and hopefully I'll be able to visit a PortForum tasting in my next UK visit...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

It would be great meeting you and London is perfect for us. I don't have special preferences for a theme. Any suggestions? I should ask my friend as well... I don't have a real large collection of ports and almost all of it is not yet 20 years old. Main houses present are: Fonseca and Taylor, but I ...

Joost

Hi all,

A Portloving friend of mine and I will (or can easily plan to) be in the UK on the friday the 19th of August. Is there any chance to meet some of you and taste some ports?

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Alex,

It was from my cellar and it was the Guimaraens!
And I am quite sure you saw it opened, because you were there when we opened it in the afternoon! But you are excused because of the heat

Santé,
Joost

Joost

No need for completeness. The serie is already great!

I have Guimaraens 05 available, if necessary...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Hi Axel,

That sounds really great! You're really filling the gaps... Now we have almost have the last 40 years of Fonseca complete, what are we still missing and can we complete?
I think Fonseca 1980 and 2007?

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Hi Julian,

The placemets tasting forms look great.

Some small comments:
- HermanG attends with a FG84
- No translation to Dutch necessary, please keep it in English!
- Can you reserve 2 places for 'Mystery Ports'

Furthermore I think everything is great!!!

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Hi Ronald,

Jeroen will attend as well! I assume his contribution will be revealed soon...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

I found Dow VP 2007 in the Gall&Gall of all places!!! (This is the largest chain of winestores, but only selling wines under 10/15€ usually)
They sell it for 60€, but I managed to get a 10% discounts... So thats 54 €...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

2 wine-friends, with some special interest in Port, are interested as well in this tasting... Their attendancy can be classified as 'likely' at this stage and their names are Jeroen and Thijs... Santé, Joost Is that the Jeroen that I know? And I presume that that's Thijs van Leer, in which case a y...

Joost

2 wine-friends, with some special interest in Port, are interested as well in this tasting... Their attendancy can be classified as 'likely' at this stage and their names are Jeroen and Thijs...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

I like the idea of a Fonseca or Niepoort vertical... And have a small stock F's and Ni's...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

I think Sandra will try some of the Ports as well, after not really drinking for 2,5 years. So she would like to attend as well... In my opinion the theme doesn't have to be a single year! Maybe we can get together a 'matrix'-tasting, 4 years and 4 houses? I do not have that much 'old' bottles, only...

Joost

Great initiative, I'm in!
And of course I can host the tasting...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Price seems to be equal to the 10year old tawny. By the way, this 10 year old white doesn't mention the word 'tawny' and of course it doesn't have a tawny colour... Second day still lots of white chocolate, hardly nothing more than that... I suppose they were thinking it was like most "normal&q...

Joost

Opened it yesterday. I fully agree it could have some more complexity. I also agree it is much too expansive (I paid 30€)... In the wineshop where I bought it, they told me it was not that sweet, but after tasting I can't agree!!! It was really sweet... It tasted like a juice of white chocolate! The...

Joost

Hi all, It's been a long time since I wrote on this forum, sorry for that. But at least I have been reading once in a while... I was looking for a nice Port to drink 'one glass a night' for a week or so and usually I like tawny ports for this purpose. So looking for a nice tawny I found a bottle of ...

Joost

Hi Ronnie, The theme was: Soldera Case Basse Vertical (98-99-00-01) - Brunello di Montalcino And aside we tasted: - Barolo 1957 - Marchesi di Barolo - Chianti Classico Riserva Il Poggio Monsanto 1971 - Super tuscan Flacchianello 1990 - Brunello 1997 Chiacci - Pegau 1998 Chateauneuf - Valdicava 2004 ...

Joost

Opened the bottle about an hour before leaving. Had some problems with the cork ,it wouldn't come out!!!!

But the wine triple decanted (at arrival decanted in the final caraffe) showed up really great. Everybody liked it, and for most it was the best Port ever!!!

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Thanks for all the advices...

I shall double decant just before leaving and I'll decant again at arrival...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Haven't had that much experience with Crusted Port, but I still have a Graham Crusted bottled in 1998...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

For a wine tasting next weekend I planned to bring a bottle of Fonseca 1985. The tasters are not really that Port minded, so I like this port to perform as good as possible. But I should travel (30 min) with the bottle 5 hours in advance of the taste moment... Under assumption that it is not possibl...

Joost

Uncle Tom, I met the author a month ago, when he organised a CDP-tasting with about 150 different CDP's including most of the top-cuvées. Very professionally orgnaised, while it was just for wine-lovers... He is really passionated and I am very sure his book will be the reference for Chateauneuf. It...

Joost

Ha, that is why'I couldn't match the TN's with the VP's from last wednesday. I thought I missed some flights and couldn't find the empty bottles back in the house.

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Thank you all for being there... It took some days to recover :? but now everything is back to normal again. My 8-week old son (Abel) knows now he is not the 'loudest person on earth' :) anymore, so since wednesday he is just sweet and quiet. Or maybe it was the 'Fonseca 77' aftertaste he had in his...

Joost

Rubby,

The party begins at around 6 or 7pm...

But earlier entrance is not any problem.

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Uncle Tom,

I'll send you a PM with the directions.

A place to crash won't be large problem, Ronnie and AHB argued for the favours of having KillerB on their room, so I assume there must be a place somewhere...

Till Wednesday,
Santé,
Joost

Joost

Hi Uncle Tom,

I just agreed with Ronnie and you are welcome to join... Space is not the problem.

I don't preferences for the Port, I assume you know best what Port would fit best in this tasting!

Santé,
Joost

Joost

All expected VP's are in the house (Taylor, Fonseca, Graham, Warre, Niepoort and Dow) and will be decanted at 10 am wednesday morning. Preparetions are on schedule

AHB: Did you get my PM?

KillerB: Do you need some co-ordinates?

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Stevie,

You are welcome to drop off your bottles and maybe (some of) your decanters as well? I will handling the decanting in the morning for all bottle already in. Please contact by PM of phone...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Ok, I'll ask Sandra to do it. But I am not sure she feels comfortable decanting these expensice bottles ;-). But as a mathematician I must be able to find a way to keep as much as possible secret, while the decanting is done by some decanting experts. Without losing the connection between the empty ...

Joost

I just ordered some extra stemware. I planned to use the Spiegelau Vino Grande Tastingglass (4510031) for the tasting is that OK?

And for the decanters I am planning to buy some too, so we can use Stevies and mine! Is two identical sets a problem?

Santé,
Joost

Joost

Ronnie, Depending on what will be the starting time, a meal can be a good idea to start with. I think I will be home that afternoon, so for me there is not a problem to help with the preparations for the meal and the tasting. Keep in contact and it will be great... If the weather is good we can do t...

Joost

My initials are JB and Mrs Joost, can be initialised by SW, or fully SMW. But she won't be fully participate in the tasting...

This looks great jdaw, if the page format is A4 (instead of letter) I can easily print it out for the tasting...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

KillerB: Great that you can join us, tasting all those VP-77... I can't offer you a sleeping place. The 'place' won't be a problem, but the 'sleeping' is problem, with a baby in the house... :lol: For all participants, if you need information about the location, address or route description, contact...

Joost

I don't think there are any Taylor Colheita's... But the idea is great... In my experience colheita performs one and a half times as old as a aged tawny. For example a 7 year old colheita (2001, bottled in 2008) performs more or less like an 10 year old Tawny. And 20 year old colheita (1987 , bottle...

Joost

Of course I should have introduced myself right here, but I didn't see this section before. Thank you Ronnie for introducing me already shortly. I like port very much, and I have a small stock (more or less 100 bottles) of Vintage Port, but must of it is much too young to drink right now. Besides I ...

Joost

Pfff, I am not that expert on Vintage Port, but with: Fonseca, Taylor, Dow, Graham, Niepoort, Gould Cambell, Warre, Smith Woodhouse I assume we'll have 8 of the best 10 VP's of 1977, which top 10 VP's are missing? Quarles Harris, Cockburn, Rebello Valente, Sandeman, Croft, Offley or Ferreira? Am I m...

Joost

@ Ronnie,

We didn't name the boy after a wine. I think it is a little too risky unless you also name him after the year as well

. The boy is named Abel and you will find the card in your post one of these days...

I contact you about the Port I will bring in...

Santé,
Joost

Joost

@ Ben, Finding good 2008-wines will of course be the next part of the job, but I allready sceduled for the next years: 2009: Find good Loire and German 2008-wines 2011: Vintage Port, Bordeaux (Sauternes) and Rhone 2012-2015: Barolo So there is plenty of time left to fill my cellar with 2008 :D Befor...

Joost

So time for a first posting in this forum. Ronald mentioned my name as 'most likely to attend' and possible host for the tasting. Last week my son is born and every thing is going so very well, I am already now quit sure of my attendancy and hosting will not be any problem. A dinner at my place is p...

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