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Kitchen gas burner is not up to the job of heating tongs IMO. Fireplace does it for sure. Kitchen gas burner can be fine, provided the end ring on your port tongs is not too thick, and you wait long enough for the heat-up; it does take a while, patience is key to avoiding frustration. Can be attest...

Great idea. Yes please.
55 and 66, though last bottle of each so I will need to double-check that they're still there.

n.b. I'm in the attendees list twice, once with specified wine but unconfirmed, and once with unknown wine but confirmed. I'm not that confused.

Have Smith Woodhouse and Quinta da Foz. Label of latter doesn’t mention Calem, but assume it is? It is; the Wine Society varied as to whether they mentioned it or not; in '63 is was just "Quinta da Foz", '66 was "Calem Quinta da Foz", then '70 back to just "Quinta da Foz&qu...

I’m not sure why. It is still its own Quinta being bottled under its own Quinta name. We don’t call Fonseca, TF, just because it’s owned by Taylor’s. This was going to be my question; our abbreviations basically reflect label branding; if the label is still "Quinta do Passadouro" (now bot...

n.b. Perhaps the title should be updated to "Wine Society 1970 bottling tasting" (or '70); without the apostrophe, while my own fault, I initially misread as "Wine Society 70-bottle tasting" and was thinking you were aiming for a huge event! That would be some night for 14 peopl...

n.b. Perhaps the title should be updated to "Wine Society 1970 bottling tasting" (or '70); without the apostrophe, while my own fault, I initially misread as "Wine Society 70-bottle tasting" and was thinking you were aiming for a huge event!

6th Oct fine for me.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑11:46 Fri 15 May 2026
PhilW wrote: ↑11:04 Fri 15 May 2026
Alex Bridgeman wrote:Anyone want to share a medium rare special steak?
I'd be up for that, Tomahawk for preference.
Done!

Excellent.

Food order from me therefore, please:
- Scotch egg
- Tomahawk steak (medium-rare to share with Alex) with skinny fries, broccoli and peppercorn sauce
- no dessert.

Odd, I thought I'd replied already.
Obviously interested; as Christopher says, likely shipper-dependent.

Sounds like a good idea to me. Will have to check what I have; might have some '70, or at least 6x (W70 confirmed, TBD any others).

Alex Bridgeman wrote:Anyone want to share a medium rare special steak?

I'd be up for that, Tomahawk for preference.

winesecretary wrote: ↑09:46 Fri 15 May 2026 I have 'Fonseca v Niepoort Vertical' in my diary for 6 October.

I'm afraid you may have forgotten this:

PhilW wrote: ↑11:37 Wed 18 Feb 2026 **Please note date change**
The date has now been set as 19th January 2027 ... <snip>

and this:

winesecretary wrote: ↑16:01 Wed 18 Feb 2026 I am alas a no for the new day as I will be in court.

Looks like I'll need to bring a Croft '63.

likewise, would be very interested.

While fetching another bottle from my cellar yesterday, I discovered a bottle of Noval 1970 which I thought had been previously drunk. So I do still have "some" Noval after all (albeit a very small quantity!)

Confirmed for 22nd Sept.

Yes please.

Would love to join but have very little.
Have Noval 1970 and/or Noval '62 crusted (bt '65), or happy to adopt as needed.

What is the optimal volume of a glass from which to drink red Port. If relevant, assume non-old: maybe LBV, maybe crusted, or still-primary VP. For me it depends on the size of the pours, and of course suitable glass shape, as aroma is important - I don't want a glass where the aroma is not/barely ...

@neil - do we want to use Zoom (which I can't help with as I only have the free account)? I think the alternative of MS Teams is still free if we want to switch over to that. Or we could try using WhatsApp - which I've used successfully for small conference calls of up to 4 people. (not Neil, but I...

akzy wrote:
Glenn E. wrote: ↑19:57 Thu 23 Apr 2026 GST, F, and VM/V/Fr... what a finish for Ferreira! I'd have never guessed it could finish that high in this group of Ports.
All third places were well deserved. Bar the capella which was obviously dodgy, an excellent showing!

What was (perhaps worryingly) wrong with the Capela?

nac wrote:
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That's interesting - not many port corks have branding on the end, at least until post-2000. Thanks for posting the pic.

I'll be there.

Sadly, the only revelation was a cork branded "Koppenhagen, Vintage 1947", so producer not known.

Re: The Port Forum Christmas tasting - 16 December 2027 I'll be there, also.

I'll be there, also.

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Revelation awaits (or not).
As do I; currently working downstairs in B&F.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑18:41 Mon 20 Apr 2026The placemats have been accordingly amended. Somebody please check.

I think the placemats are correct. First post definitely doesn't match and isn't up-to-date (and unless it's just my cache has contradictions in it) but the placemats seems to match the latest posts from people in the thread.

winesecretary wrote:I am very grateful that, due to the multiple kindnesses of others, I will be able to attend it.

Hear, hear.

Absolutely, very interested of course.

Christopher wrote:A perfect occasion to bring the 6 different shippers in one magnum!

Most excellent.

winesecretary wrote: ↑20:36 Mon 06 Apr 2026 Damn. I am mandatorily away all of that week at a conference. Ironically it will be taking place at the Port Forum (in Barcelona).

Are you suggesting a venue change? Does "The Port Fòrum" (TPFr) have sufficient glasses available? In which case we would become "63@63..TPF@TPFr"

Either work for me currently

Yes, absolutely.

Bertie3000 wrote: ↑16:30 Sat 04 Apr 2026 We have two adopters - could they reach out to relevant people to see if they could adopt one of the years that needs adopting (1970/1983/1985). It is not clear yet whether we need any bottles younger than 1994.

Ian has offered for me to adopt the 1983.

Please add "+ fries + peppercorn sauce" to my sharing Tomahawk. ty.

I hope they have Carmina Burana playing on loop when you enter... "O Por-tuno <bom> <bom>"...
Sounds well worth a visit next trip.

I love the idea of this; maybe it was a blend of their favourite shippers, or just what they had left from each cask after the main bottling, and who knows what the proportions might be. Would love the know the story behind it (did they know the Avery family perhaps?).

Phil: your recent proposal doubtless has many fine technical merits. Pray tell, could a tasting organiser, and hypothetically a tasting organiser who has had his share of the Port being tasted, be confident of being able to effect it accurately? Hah! In a thread where the square root sum is potenti...

Interesting analysis; so much to respond to... Just a couple for now. Before analysis of the more subtle attack described by Julian, the Quadrature method looked the most effective for defence against simple attacker, but the effort of calculation and hence risk of error might outweigh the risk of T...

nac wrote: ↑22:00 Sun 29 Mar 2026 Assume room booked? First post not entirely positive about this.

First post could indeed use a little more love.

A great find I generally wax all my old bottles. Personally if it had some seepage as you have lost 3/4 of the cork I would find an excuse to drink it soon Agree with Christopher, and even more so not just because of the seepage, but since you sampled some as well - so rather than a recorked vts-le...

a Mystery Port. Suitably mysterious Port? 2026-03-12 16.25.56.jpg Love it. Interesting that they've maintained the feather/medals as also used on the Ferreirnha range, which also included Acyprestes (both as 1872, and as undated tawny), which were likely bottled just prior to this one; the earliest...

But think of the discomfort that some of the poor champagne corks must be feeling through their hips maintaining such an angle, particularly those who have withered, dried or shrunk and can no longer maintain such a broad-based mushroom. And their caps keep falling off. Can't anyone provide succor?

Decanted 07:30. Unknown bottler, but from a stash that has shown well previously. The sediment was perhaps interesting (for those with sufficient geekiness) - there seemed to be none to begin with, almost nothing in the gauze/funnel. The bottle is of light green glass, and I could see no sediment in...

Despite great personal injury from his use of the laser engraver on the Mk1 and 24 hrs in hospital I'm pleased to report that Beaker under the personal direction of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew from Muppet Labs Inc and a trip to Hobby Craft have perfected a scalable solution for Branding the Mk2 Cork Stand....

jdaw1 wrote: ↑21:35 Sat 14 Mar 2026 Food order started.

Food order please:
- Starter: Scotch Egg
- Main: *Sirloin (med-rare) + fries + peppercorn sauce
- Dessert: TBD on day.

*Please upgrade to Tomahawk (med-rare) to share with CPR if special steaks are possible; thx.

Alex Bridgeman wrote:
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I must admit, it's not easy to sneak the Mark 1 version into the house without the other half noticing. It's also quite a challenge to find bottles with corks big enough to fit on the Mark 1.

I'm relieved that the Mark 2 version is smaller and lighter.

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flash_uk wrote:
jdaw1 wrote: ↑09:07 Sat 14 Mar 2026
jdaw1 wrote: ↑19:49 Mon 09 Mar 2026The placemats and the images in the first post have been updated.
Please would somebody carefully check the placemats.

Had a look - placemats seem fine.

+1

Absolutely. Love the cork rest concept.
Totally ridiculous, and brilliant.

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