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Perfectly timed Facebook memory from 2019, given one of the topics yesterday!

I, at least, would prefer to be corrected! I'm slowly learning Portuguese via Duolingo, but unfortunately it is Brazilian and not continental. I know some of the "rules" to switch between the two, but far from all of them. Combine that with what I'm sure is a very thick American accent, an...

Pre-meeting is over, we're now in the full meeting. Second link in the message from Alex.

My meeting is dragging a bit... looks like it's going to take the full hour rather than the hoped-for 45 min.

I don't think there's any need to keep them secret - it's not like we're all gathering in one place for a blind tasting!

I have a 10 Year Old S. Leonardo White Port open, and if that turns out to be insufficient I'll probably open a 1995 or 1997 Porto Souza VP.

I have a free Zoom account, which gives me the ability to host meetings for up to 40 minutes. Given Glenn has a meeting running until 11am / 7pm UK I'll set up a meeting for us to get together at 6.30pm UK. Once Glenn is finished, we can switch over to his account and continue for as long as we wan...

Carvalhas, Vesuvio, Vargellas, and Vale Meao are all quite large. But as I posted on FTLOP, there are really two answers to this question:

1) largest physically
2) largest in terms of cultivated land (land under vine)

Some very large quintas in the Douro are only relatively sparsely planted.

I've set up the meeting to begin at (I hope) 6:00 pm London time, but it's now beginning to look like I have a meeting from 10-11 Pacific time that I really cannot skip. I'll post here as I get further information, but it looks like we may need to delay the start until 7:00 pm London time. (I was go...

Is anyone willing and able to host us on Zoom, and to send out the Zoom invites? I have a paid account and am happy to host, but it might degrade performance to have the host in Seattle and just about everyone else in London. :lol: I'm not sure that I have contact information for everyone, though, ...

Sometimes we have a loose theme - IIRC we've done whites and LBVs before - but most of the time it's just bring something to drink and chat with friends.

In addition to receiving meager allotments of vacation here in the US compared to those of you in the UK/EU, we're often capped on the amount that we can have saved up at any given time. I am (once again) approaching that limit and am considering taking the Thursday off for this tasting. Are we stil...

For example, whilst i knew that the regulation was problematic with usual issues like a bottle of Sercial not having to be exclusively Sercial That's pretty common in the wine industry, actually. In the US the normal limit is that at least 75% must be the as-labeled grape variety, but there are exc...

Just so that you know, Christopher, I sent Andy a message on Feb 16. He responded and we're now communicating by email.

Beautiful, and the proper size for a GC77.

I’d also avoid F80, but only because it’s not a great wine. Perhaps it’s one for you to buy and try so you can make up your own mind. In my experience, F80 is often very similar to Fr80. Which makes for a very strange Fonseca, but still leaves an often quite nice Ferreira-like Port. Don't go in exp...

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑16:14 Fri 17 Feb 2023 I’ll put it on the calendar, but as the 8 hr time change not sure I’ll be able to get day off work yet. At worst, I may be able to join for a bit just to say hi during a work break.

What, you can't just have Zoom on a side monitor and sit there and drink Port at your desk like I do?

Incidentally, I notice that when you visited they had two brands of 20YOT for sale by the bottle. I wonder what the difference between them is? Duque de Braganca is just an older bottling of Dona Antonia. They are allegedly exactly the same Port. I don't recall off the top of my head when they chan...

Ah yes... that makes much more sense and now that you've said it I can see it as well!

We do tend to get different years in the US than you get in Europe, but it's normally not exclusive and the releases tend to leak back and forth regardless. I don't see 2006 or 2007 in the US... we appear to skip from 2005 straight to 2008. Off the top of my head I don't recall much of interest from...

It also looks like the 1509 spelling of the name is "Ferieira" with an extra 'i'.

Interesting... the Ferreira 20 YO used to be (when it was called Duque de Braganca) one of the better ones! Hopefully it was just off for whatever reason.

I'm in! I have a paid Zoom account and can host if people would prefer Zoom. For now, at least, I have no meetings scheduled during the day on March 30.

Is it over? My meeting has ended and I'm waiting to re-join the Teams call.

Stream just came online for me! Whee!

The style of Bioma is not what Glenn prefers in a port so it’s no wonder he’s not a fan as much as others. Just saying. Actually, I find Bioma more pleasant than regular Niepoort Vintage Ports. It's certainly not on par with Graham or Vesuvio or Fonseca for me, but in this case I don't think that's...