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Sorry, I can’t make this any more, please remove me from the attendees and offer up my place. I wasn’t down to contribute a specific bottle, so hopefully straightforward.

Could Sandeman Seixo work? It’s probably also not in the same premium category like the others either.

Still - delighted to see such a good selection on offer.

I read this as 4 x 25 ml pours! Happy to be corrected though.
400 mL of VVV for £49 is about £90 per bottle, so less than retail?

Also only one score for the F70, was it flawed?

It’s fair to say that I haven’t ever drunk it blind or even at a tasting with other Ports so my impression my be completely wrong. However, if we were comparing it to “any 20 year old”, I’d take the Kranemann, Kopke, Niepoort, or Ramos Pinto over the 40-year-old Fletcher. If we are comparing it to ...

Maynard’s 50 year old is available
https://www.vintagewineandport.co.uk/50 ... y-port.cfm

I was sceptical of the Fletcher’s 40yo, until I did a blind comparison to Graham 20yo. I preferred the Fletcher’s.

Sorry, I’ll now actually be in the USA that week, so can’t make it.

Opened and tasted 19th Oct 2022.
Sourced from a relatively new wine merchant that has acquired some older stocks.
Wonderful tawny port. Golden-orange colour. Oranges, caramel and a little vanilla. Superb.
Happily unaffected by 6 years in bottle; glad I have a second!

Really disappointing. A big uptick in price and what looks like a substantially worse/more limited line-up to be tasted.

I think Palmer and Maynard also have 50yo bottlings. Also interested in attending.

Plus both '20 and '21 because of no foot treading.

Having tried lab-grade filter paper for a while and been frustrated by how slow / clogging it is (and the amount of liquid absorption). I have actually been using a clean, heavily washed, 100% cotton white handkerchief in a funnel for the past couple of years - less of a problem with liquid absorpti...

Axa Millessima and Vintage Wine & Port have both listed 6-packs of Noval 2020, only available DPV, and at £530 and £470 respectively.
It doesn’t look like any have been bought since being listed a couple of weeks ago.

For the Platinum Jubilee long weekend, a bottle of 1977 Sandeman, which is marked with "The Silver Jubilee". Double decanted 5 hours ahead. Well-integrated, Soft and elegant. Mature, not tannic or spirity Some slight musty cardboard (others thought earthy). Enjoyable light red fruits (incl...

Farr Vintners just listed 2020 Churchill's EP at 520 IB per 12-bottle case (normal size bottes).
For reference they have the 2016 at 440 IB as well.

Ocado offering £15 discounts on Kopke 30 yo and Kopke 1985 Colheita to bring them to around ~£60 each.
Delivered, 2021 bottling.

Alex M wrote: ↑16:31 Sun 22 May 2022 6 x Fonseca 1992 @ £288 IB BBR.

That looks like a good price for it! I have it down as £595 for 12 bottles IB ten years ago. Thanks

winesecretary wrote: ↑10:36 Sun 15 May 2022 the case-for-the-2020-child

Indeed my predicament. I would have banked on Vesuvio and/or a selection of the “normal” major house releases, but looks like a small number of pricey bottles.
Incidentally, not seen the Noval for sale anywhere yet (hat-tip to nac on the G and W/WVV?)

Yes please, I have TV95

No objection; one question - per previous discussions, we tend not to assign an abbreviation unless there are at least ~3+ releases of VP; do these both meet that criteria? I recently acquired a bottle of Harvey's 1985 Vintage Port. Wine-searcher tells me that 1985 (image matches the label on my bo...

I’m interested, but don’t currently have any bottles - I can try to get one nearer the time though.

Unfortunately, from the same source, I also had a cask sample half-bottle of Graham 1994. This didn’t show as well as I’d have expected and also had a fairly brief window during which it was enjoyable (very hot after opening, good after a few hours, then faded fast).

Yes, March 1996, photo in case of interest

I've previously tasted the "conventional" W94 at BBR port walks in 2016 and 2019. This was comparable to those two, but noticeably less tannic which I think would be the half-bottle rather than necessarily a cask vs regular bottling.