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Sounds like good fun. Please sign me up.

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Hi all,

Hope you all are well. Sadly, I can't make this tasting so will have to contend with a grumbling ex-post read-through of the review and notes.

Magnus

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Freudian, intentional, or none of the above: was this a slip or did you really have a "Port" Pie?

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2/3rds of a Tappit Hen of Graham 1977 @ £75 for 75ml! That is astounding! To me, even more so than Ne Oublie @ £400 for 25ml. That's the equivalent of 2 full bottles sold at a rate of £750/bottle. For a 1977. I have 7 magnums of GC77 that I will hand deliver to anyone willing to pay £750/750ml for ...

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Focusing on unfiltered LBVs is not a bad idea in terms of bang for your buck and I would recommend checking Wine Searcher regularly. Search for "Late Bottled Vintage", select UK shops and, ideally also filter for good to excellent years such as 2011 or earlier ones. The benefit of that is ...

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4 x 1997 Niepoort Colheita, bottled in 2021. First proper venture down the barrel aged rabbit hole. "We're all mad here."

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Leafing through the ”J Sheekey Fish” cookery book, I came across the below cocktail recipe. Moderators: if the picture breaches copyright rules then please delete. I would love for some of our budding mixologists (God I hate that word) to make it and report back, including a picture. Edit 1: can’t f...

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Of limited use in a UK context perhaps but I recently picked up a few Offley LBV 2015 from a supermarket in Denmark. Alas, Wine Searcher did not yield any UK results.

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Sadly I won't be able to make this. Kudos to Mike for organizing!

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Summary: Desert island port wonderfully balanced between youth and maturity. Many points today and more in the future. Impossible to be overstocked. Longer version: Decanted Friday evening and followed over three days. Cork was clean and soaked about halfway up, no seepage or dust/mildew at the top ...

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Lux-ed received today. Execeptionally well wrapped, almost obsessively so (a good thing surely), in multiple layers of bubble wrap, zip loc bag, paper and what not. Book looks fab, sumptuous leather, gilt-edged paper - wonderful workmanship! Now sitting down to enjoy the cloth bound copy received be...

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yes please! Sadly I am currently in possession of Graham's only.

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First of all, thank you Mike for creating the tasting note threads and also this review thread! I should have done it but I have been swamped since I came back. Thank you also to Alex for getting there early and starting the decanting, laying the table etc. as well as Julian for booking the room, pr...

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flash_uk wrote: ↑12:50 Tue 17 Apr 2018 Let me know if any printing is required. Although it will be 6-ish before I get there.

Thank you but Julian has undertaken to print so it should all be in hand. See you there!

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idj123 wrote: ↑11:59 Tue 17 Apr 2018 Have decanted an additional bottle (for 'dagger') just in case we have a thirst on . I expect to arrive shortly after 6.30pm.

Very kind, thank you! Look forward to seeing you there.

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jdaw1 wrote: ↑21:38 Fri 13 Apr 2018 Food order created. After it has been checked it can be sent to the B&F.

PLacemats updated. Please check for errors.

Both documents look good, please send to B&F.

I can print A4 but will need to do so on Sunday evening latest as I am travelling to the UK on Monday.

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jdaw1 wrote: ↑14:11 Fri 13 Apr 2018 Will update placemats this evening.

Do you wait be to assemble the food order?

Yes please. Thank you.

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Reminder: attendees who have not yet submitted their food orders are urged to do so asap.

Thanks
Magnus

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Can I bring a F77 ? I can't think of any circumstance where the answer to that question would be no. Hi Magnus, sorry but I'm not likely to be able to join you for this (generously hosted) tasting, but hope you are well and have a good evening; Phil. Hi Phil, would have been nice to see you next we...

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Hi Cornish crab please Steak medium rare - side order of green beans Can I bring a F77 ? In light of your generous offer I will quite gladly expand the theme of this tasting and thus, very gratefully, accept your F77. As Phil wrote above, It's hard to conceive of any occasion where this port would ...

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First post amended, list of attendees increased by one.

Julian: please update the placemats.

Many thanks

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forest26 wrote: ↑18:17 Sun 08 Apr 2018 At last... a date I can make - Is there space for one more?

Absolutely! You have been added under the initials TC. I hope that was correct?

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My food order: crab salad followed by rib-eye + béarnaise sauce, potentially followed by a sticky toffee pudding.

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To all: time to decide on what to eat. Current menu (i think) found on the link below. Please state your preferences.

Boot & Flogger dinner meny

If this is not the correct menu, please let me know asap.

Thanks

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DRT wrote: ↑23:13 Fri 02 Mar 2018 I've checked - it all looks good!

Excellent! Thanks for the offer of logistics help. I'll bring bottles to B&F the evening before, see first post (edited). Any help on Tuesday (limited decanting, setting up and pouring) is much appreciated.

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AHB wrote: ↑10:58 Fri 02 Mar 2018 I can make it, my work diary is clear.

I could probably also get there a little early and help with decanting and setting up.

Excellent Alex! You have been added.

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I would love to come along as I am in town already that week for my WSET Level 3, and this is the best way possible of swotting up for the fortified wine module. Unfortunately, my course means that on this occasion I would not be available to help with the set up. Brilliant! I have added SCD to the...

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Count me in Magnus. Difficult to know yet whether I can help with decanting, but I’ll try and protect my diary to make it possible. Also, if all the bottles are coming from the same storage then you could maybe have them shipped directly to the B&F? Great! You have been added. Good idea about s...

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I’ll check my work diary tomorrow mornings and let you know. Would you like any contributions from attendees either in the form of port or in the form of cash for the evening? It would be great if you can make it! No contributions in any form are required for the ports. Food bill dealt with as per ...

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I'd be up for this as my diary appears free for this day. I wouldn't be able to help with decanting since will be coming in from Reading but hopefully, someone(s) can step in. Failing that, we could always ask the B&F-I believe they've done some decanting for us before? Excellent! Attendee list...

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Sounds good. I have updated the first post to hold list of attendees. Thanks for booking the B&F.

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I am scheduled to attend a conference in London 17-18 April (Tue - Wed), but will arrive in the afternoon on the 16th (Monday). I would really like to meet up over some port at the B&F and was thinking of bringing some bottles out of storage in the interest of doing a "health check" on...

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Undisputed first place - Graham 1994; then Fonseca 1985, Offley Boa Vista 1994 and Graham 1970, where only a few bottles differ between second and fourth place.

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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is "a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels." Anyone can submit an entry (or several) and the site is a treasure trove of exceptionally bad opening sentences of fiction. ...

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In Our Game by Le Carré: I remember thinking, as the thousand-voiced choir of angels struck up inside my head, that if you're celebrating your emergence from the black light, a bottle of '55 Cheval Blanc and a large dose of Graham's '27 port make an appropriately celestial accompaniment. Great autho...

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A Broken Frame - Depeche Mode.

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Looks like a great evening, i have assumed a dark green shade of envy. Some observations from the score sheet: 1. No points awarded to any port from 1983. In fact, Phil's 1/2 point to T80 implies this was preferable to any wine from 1983. Was the competition too fierce or were the wines simply not t...

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Incredible work! I am looking forward to getting my hands on this.

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Alas, i am now unable to attend because of work. My 94 and/or 97 are though, should they be required.

Magnus

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Alas, i am stumped. If only jdaw, before dreaming about opening the bottle, had also imagined a pencil and drawing paper with which to transfer the embossed details, however faint, onto the paper.

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My silence should not be interpreted as anything other than eager anticipation of the next instalment, awaited with bated breath.

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In addition to the sound advice above I would add Offley Boa Vista 1994, a port which I found over delivered when compared to price.

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No.2 child was born in 2014, and unfortunately the port gods did not smile as happily on that year as they did on 2011 when No.1 was born. I would be very grateful for any ideas of ports to buy where the grapes were harvested before the deluge. I note that Noval just released 1,000 cases but am comp...

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Like SCP I am also not yet sure about whether I am able to attend, but the better half, in a moment of severe weakness, positively encouraged me to attend. I feel obliged therefore to do as I have been told.. Depending on the date I would very much like to join. Alas, I can only offer '94 and '97 bu...

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You generally have a pretty high hit rate as a group if not consistently as individuals. Are you saying that, if there are enough guesses, usually one throw lands near the target? Sensing a trap along the lines of statistics, whether it is real or not, I am trying to say that together a handful of ...

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The guesses for Croft 1960 stood out as wildly inaccurate, which is not in line with the abilities of you lot normally. Really? Have you been to our tastings? You generally have a pretty high hit rate as a group if not consistently as individuals. Compared to my own inability to tell chalk from che...

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Looks like a nice evening was had, wish i could have been there. The guesses for Croft 1960 stood out as wildly inaccurate, which is not in line with the abilities of you lot normally. Was it really that youthful, and if so, how certain are you that the wine was what it claimed to be? I've only had ...

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Having just drunk and enjoyed a bottle of 1980 Warre (note here ) I happened to notice a half case for £150 in bond at Berrys. I almost wonder if it was a mistake, so overpriced are most listings on BBX. However I do not feel I can cavil at £25/bottle for a 36 year old port. Alright I know l shall ...

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It was definitely a chunk of cork. The cork I pulled came out completely intact and had not been in long enough to acquire any stain or colouration.

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Having been remiss in my port drinking of late, a bottle of Ck77 was offered like a paschal lamb. Decanting revealed (i) remnants of the old cork prior to recorking, (ii) a very pale port of approx. 30 % opacity, (iii) large flaky sediment on the subsequent rinse and most promisingly, (iv) an inviti...

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