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Aldi have Maynard's 2011 unfiltered LBV at £9.99.

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Having picked up a couple of dozen of the Sandeman 2003 Vau Vintage from Tesco thought my port buying was done for the month. Today a friend offered me some bottles found when an elderly relative moved into a home. they are 2 bottles Dow's 1955, 1 bottle Croft 1963, 1 bottle Dow's reserve "matu...

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Tesco have 2003 Sandeman Vau Vintage port reduced to £12. I cleared the shelf.

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My best auction buy was 4 bottles, Croft 1935, Taylor's 1945 Warre's 1958(undrinkable) and SmithWoodhouse 1983, all for £100 plus buyers premium.

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From the Independant "A bottle of wine a day is not bad for you and abstaining is worse than drinking, scientist claims "
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 71010.html

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PhilW wrote:
mpij wrote:Just spotted half bottles of Croft unfiltered LBV in Tesco for £8.99, it was in only store in Dundee where I ever saw it at full price, hoping it's a precursor to lots of it on offer at half price soon!
What year?

2004, sorry should have said.

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Just spotted half bottles of Croft unfiltered LBV in Tesco for £8.99, it was in only store in Dundee where I ever saw it at full price, hoping it's a precursor to lots of it on offer at half price soon!

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[quote="LGTrotter"] Tea in Delhi makes me think of all the chia-wallahs selling that sweet brown cardamom flavoured brew, which while little to do with tea as I understand it is a terrific thing. Especially in those little clay dishes which everybody threw out of train windows. I also have...

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LGTrotter wrote:
DRT wrote:I find that builder's tea is a bit like sucking an old tuppeny bit.
Precisely!

Do you have tasting notes on the different years?

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Hope your all enjoying yourselves.

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PopulusTremula wrote:Would the issue go away if Scotland were to secede from the Union, i.e. would the flag become fool proof? If so, we may just have stumbled on the only instantly verifiable argument in favour of secession.

Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk

It would, however, ruin this thread.

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I prefer to keep my job!

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My cellar is a Miele 162 bottle wine storage unit that sits in the hallway of my 13th floor flat. it has never been anywhere near full and I find opening the door and having a look is enough to keep track of what Ihave. Am sure I have issues with theft and evaporation but not having any records cann...

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My local auction house, http://www.curranddewar.com/auction-lis ... 0&mrows=40 , has a double magnum of Taylors 1976 lbv in their next sale. Does anyone know if this is filtered or unfiltered and will it be past it's best by now? Will buy it anyway if it sells near estimate but don't want to ov...

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My local auction house, http://www.curranddewar.com/auction-list.cfm?srow=1&aid=101&sterm=&imgonly=0&mrows=40 , has a double magnum of Taylors 1976 lbv in their next sale. Does anyone know if this is filtered or unfiltered and will it be past it's best by now? Will buy it anyway if i...

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jdaw1 wrote:So “One quiz at a time” has had two quizzes at a time. Now what?

Haven't you just made it three?

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A side question: is it legal for a private individual to sell a bottle of alcohol to another private individual without a licence? Alcohol has to be either sold by a person who holds a personal licence, or sold to a person who holds a personal licence. I hold a personal licence.. I have bought alco...

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Antonio Gramsci.

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Hagel.

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jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Boris and Mrs Johnson.
You have the less famous of the two.

Going by Twitter followers you have the famousness wrong.

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New meteor shower the Camelopardalids predicted for tonight.

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I have a radical solution to the England teams problems. Offer the top job to Shane Warne.

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Rangers win this round and limp on.

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@STVGrant
Rangers CFO Philip Nash statement to court: “Renewal of season tickets has been slower, rather than lower, than expected”. Head scratcher.
2:00pm – 6 May 14

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Former director Imran Ahmad at Court of Session tomorrow attempting to ringfence £500,000 relating to claim for unpaid bonuses. Also rumors on Twitter of emergency board meeting tonight. Things may be getting interesting.

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The Portman Group have found BrewDog guilty of breach of alcohol marketing code. I like their reply. http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/04/29/ ... les-breach

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4 bottles Dow's Crusted bottled 2007.

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Olive oil has molecules that are partially soluble - when a tiny amount is placed on the surface of water it will spread to form a film that is as little as one molecule thick, sealing the surface from air contact. If the Romans - or anyone else - uses a earthenware pitcher to store wine that has b...

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Admins, if my last post of this thread makes a mess
Feel free to move it to Meaningless DRivel in the full knowledge that you can do so without causing me the least bit of ditress.

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Was looking at Books About Riiculous Ideas. I do not allow such books in my house, such ideas have, however, managed to seek in through the back door in the form of verse. From the pen of Sir William Topaz McGonagall poet and Tragedian Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah I offer: The Destroying A...

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A conjunction of two planets?

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Chapeau!

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Not sure if I have been watcing Sky Sports 2 or the Comedy Channel.

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Just read my post from last night and realise I should be in the Hall of Shame that is Apostrophe Crimes.

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Recently purchased
4 Dows crusred bottled 2006
2 Noval 2006 LBV
1 Wiese & Krohn 2005 VP
1Wiese & Krohn 2009 unfiltered LBV
1Quinta do Infantado 2007 unfiltered LBV
1 magnum(my first) Robertsons Rebello Valente 1977 VP

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Chapeau the Netherlands.

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DRT wrote:
AW77 wrote:57 % vat on wine????????
The solution is to only drink expensive wine

Does this mean that you will be leaving any future offers like the Croft 2004 unfilterd lbv in Tesco's on the shelf to avoid paying a higher % of tax? All the more left for the rest of us!

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Rangers (variously known as Sevco 5088, Sevco Scotland ltd, The Rangers Football Club, Sevconians, Rangers International Football Club ltd., and Schrodingers FC) yesterday had an offer of 15% pay cut rejected by players. Earlier in the week one of the initial investors sold their penny shares to ass...

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Oh dear, England snatch defeat from jaws of victory.

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[quote="DRT"]I once created a very interesting Port reduction. The recipe is as follows:

I have produced a similar result with different ingredients a couple of times.

Last year I made jelly with Japanese quince and most of a bottle of Croft Purple Velvet, it's delicious.

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Northern lights may be visible tonight, even as far south as Cotswolds.

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Alcoholics are being paid in beer to clean the streets of Amsterdam as part of a project partly funded by the Dutch government - the organisers think other countries should abandon "old-fashioned political correctness" and adopt the same approach. Rene scours the streets, grasping at disc...

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Saw in new year with, amoungst other thins, Taylor's 1985 and Dow's 1992 Quinta do Bomfim.

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Perhaps harsh, but the subject is plural rather than singular so I think there is a case to be answered! Darwin was writing his Origin of the species Not sure on the proposed singular/plural crime, though I did misquote the title which should have been (On the) Origin of Species. Excuse my pedantry...

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Best wine of the year(and any other year) was Taylors 1945. I suspect it may be some time before I taste anything as good again.

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[quote="Glenn E."]So... could someone explain cricket to me? [The following explanation of cricket has been used since the 1970s, to explain cricket to Americans who had never seen a cricket match. First developed in Seattle, it has been used throughout the USA. Try it on your American fri...

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DRT wrote:
mpij wrote:does anyone else remember when a Scottish team beat an English team to win a final at Lords?
24 June 1314?

You remember Bannockburn?! I was thinking of an event that happened in the last century rather than the 14th.

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OK - back on topic. This match is hideously boring. The only things that are happening are (a) Australia clocking up 3 runs per over and (b) Stuart Broad roaring like an idiot every time he is the only person on the planet who thinks he's just taken a wicket. So, in the absence of anything exciting...

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OK - back on topic. This match is hideously boring. The only things that are happening are (a) Australia clocking up 3 runs per over and (b) Stuart Broad roaring like an idiot every time he is the only person on the planet who thinks he's just taken a wicket. So, in the absence of anything exciting...

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