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Yes please

Yes please - sounds fun!

flash_uk wrote: ↑14:05 Tue 14 Jan 2025 Oh yes please. Have 60, 66 and others - will figure out and revert.

Also have 55 and 63 + 70, 77, 94 but most of that is moot with Alex clarifying he's already bringing 55 and 63

Oh yes please. Have 60, 66 and others - will figure out and revert.

Edited per request to add bottles Alex has mentioned: also have 55, 63 and 70

Wonderful - confirming, thanks.

35% opacity, red, amber rim. Lovely rich christmas cake fresh nose, red fruits. Soft, smooth entry, gentle heat mid to late palate, silky sweetness, oranges. Finish has extracted citrus notes, very dry and extracted.

70% opacity, deep dark red, purple rim. Rich chocolate nose. Light to mid tannins, unripe fruits, some acidity and bitterness in the finish.

80% opacity, deep, dark, dull red. Dates and figs on the nose. Rich, full mouthfeel, light tannins, red fruits not yet ripe, short finish with some bitterness.

40% oapcity, warm red, amber rim. Nose has drying fruit. Smooth entry then dryness on the palate, dried fruit, leather notes, liquorice, thyme.

30% opacity, red, amber rim. Fresh nose, oranges. Medium weight, some VA, lip-licking citrus fruit - oranges.

35% opacity, warm red, copper rim. Lovely, rich, sweet nose, strawberries, candy, toffee. Quick to gentle heat and dryness, Fruit fading, extracted. Slight bitterness in the finish.

50% opacity, mature red. Rich christmas cake nose. Lovely rich mouthfeel, drying fruits, cranberries. Dryness late palate.

75% opacity, deep dark red. Nose is sweet, full of fruit and some candy. Surpisingly mid-weight, medium tannins, some acidity in the finish which tails off with dryness.

Only thing I’d add to the great advice already proffered, is to remember that double decanting 12 bottles is going to take best part of 60 minutes without a break, so don’t forget to plan that time in. On the topic of wine glasses, these from IKEA are almost indistinguishable from those we use at th...

Out of interest, for those who stayed at the Cross Keys, how do you feel this worked compared to the Cricketers Arms? It was certainly easier to get a taxi from / to Saffron Walden. I thought it was spot on, Alex. Breakfast was very good (as is Cricketers), room at Crosskeys I would say was slightl...

Can't make I'm afraid. All of next week is fairly busy.

(I love that my Myers Briggs personality profile - INFP - is probably as far as it is possible to be opposite to JDAW's.) With only slight interest do I note your delight at being the opposite of me. Doubtless there is a personality type that would be upset, but not one that I have. Over time I hav...

flash_uk wrote: ↑00:26 Sat 28 Dec 2024 Tentative yes. Can confirm one way or another on Sunday.

Ah, now it’s a no. Will be away now. Apols.

Tentative yes. Can confirm one way or another on Sunday.

I believe the cork from this bottle was the first any of us had seen with branding and a year pre 1900. I should be more precise. I believe the cork from this bottle was the first any of us had seen with branding and a year pre 1900, for a bottle bottled pre 1900. Clearly there are branded corks ar...

I believe the cork from this bottle was the first any of us had seen with branding and a year pre 1900. I should be more precise. I believe the cork from this bottle was the first any of us had seen with branding and a year pre 1900, for a bottle bottled pre 1900. Clearly there are branded corks ar...

Pictures of the cork of the 1896 Feuerheerd are now here in the thread relating to that bottle.