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I am unconvinced that Parker really gets port, others would seem to agree with me in that I do not see the same premium that 100 points makes in claret show up in port pricing.

djewesbury wrote:

DRT wrote:I think some here might be doing convincing impressions of newts right now

Well exactly. If they're that picky, how do they ever get to that famed state...?

Cockburn LBV 2007. Dreadful, tastes of pineapple, forsooth.

One simply has to arch one's back and waggle the tail in a semicircle. The mating ritual I hear.

I thought I covered that with my comment on training. I mean it, they are tough, shed their tails and everything.

djewesbury wrote:Newts...?

'Guppies' as they are termed in the US (at least I was lead to believe this by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse). Salamandrea. Great things newts, difficult to train I would imagine.

I feel a little crestfallen when I read about Uncle Tom at last getting the '27 Graham he was looking for. However my purchase of a case of '94 Graham on BBX is probably just as exhilarating to me. I do like buying port that needs keeping, it gives me a sense of hope. That pesky BBX is a bit on a ha...

I am always impressed by the politeness of the responses to these questions, long may it continue. I wonder if there should be a rota so those most long suffering responders could take a night off. The trouble is that most of us would probably only respond with 'oh just drink it'.

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Looks like you touched a nerve there.

As a died in the wool technophobe I assumed it was just me, (but then isn't it always about me) so I am relieved to hear others struggle too. Christies I find equally lugubrious, it often seems that the provincial auction houses having not so much to spend on bells and whistles are easier to navigat...

Feeling a little irked today I thought I might as well put the capstone on my mood by opening an anoymous bottle. The chap who sold it to me (for thirty five quid) said was Warre 1978 or 1972. I did not think that Warre produced either a '78 or a '72 so I was prepared for the worst. The cork was una...

I have bought a Cockburn ‟believed 1950s”, which was 1960. I didn’t feel robbed. I have bought a share of a case of ‟believed 1955”, some of which was ’55, some ’48, at least one ’35, and a ’27. I didn’t feel robbed. I agree; one of the finest excitements of port is taking a punt on anonymous bot...

There seem to be versions of what is fake; there is something which is misattributed ("believed Taylor 48" when actually it is a 66), the deliberate forgery such as that alleged against Kurwinian. I have some bottles that I have no idea what they are and neither did the people who sold the...

Most fascinating thread - not withstanding that no firm conclusions have been possible, how much of a problem if at all is fake bottles in peoples experience? This thought may be worth a thread of its own. I can't say I have ever noticed a fake, not many duds either but then again I smoke fags so h...

At the risk of being controversial; tish and piffle, I knew someone who did this, very infrequently and at a third of a turn, no triumph, no tragedy.

I am still of the opinion that the thermal expansion does make a difference whatever the micrometers might say. What I neglected to say in the previous post was the instructions on how to get those uniquely irritating thick plastic capsules off I shall treasure, they seem to only afflict bottles fro...

I have a feeling that the corks stick to the neck, perhaps some port drying in the cork produces this effect. I wonder if the warming allows this port 'glue' to soften enough to release the cork as well as just the thermal expansion.

Now I'm stuck.

Didn't they have some of those recalcitrant thirty-fives?

Or you could give a clue, or allow the use of google.

How about a Bucks. house BOB, shall we say a '77?

True Auberon was better known as a sketch writer/curmudgeon-in-chief, a role he sort of inherited from Evelyn. Can't think of another question right now, surely you have a little teaser for us all?

I just had to google Creighton Churchill, never heard of him.

To put you out of your obvious suspense it is .............. Evelyn Waugh.

The million pound prize will now be recycled to the next quiz.

Not a trick question, the man in question is more renowned for his fictional description of drinking, it was his son who was the wine writer.

Thank-you. I shall stick to one bottle at a time from now on, in my notes at least.

Reading some books I was supposed to be moving today I came across; ‘Port is the wine proper to the heavy drinker, and it may be admitted that whereas champagne, claret, burgundy and hock are all entirely beneficial and indeed in a well ordered constitution, essential to the digestion of food, port,...

Yes two separate bottles, I'm still finding my way a bit with posting etiquette. Please feel free to perform whatever jiggery-pokery you need to make this work.

I seem to have a carpet of Graham ’77 covering everything except this. As the Graham still wants some keeping I had another of these. I was a bit unkind to this wine in the previous post. It seems livelier than the last bottle. There is a lot more liquorice and fruit. Very sweet to taste, almost you...