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Thought I had requested a place but seem to have been bumped, possibly as I did say ‘hoped’. Anyway, please add me to any further reserve requests, many thanks. You are not alone. But note: I think that there might have been a snafu, and some acceptances were listed out of order. I will re-do my ad...

Confirmed.

Colheitas seem to me to generally taste perhaps 10 years younger than their XX year old tawnies (such as 30yr Colheita vs 20 year tawny), probably due to the small amounts of older components in the mix. The Q94c is interesting to me as it tastes younger than I expect, perhaps 17yt equiv, but is soo...

There was a bottle with a flat side at auction in April, with the cap clearly showing it was port - was this the one you opened? If not then there is another one or there at least.

Interesting - thank you. The bottle and labels match well to all the other Croft 1945 I've seen, which usually have a red wax capsule with "CROFT T&C OPORTO", the though wax is often mostly missing. I wonder whether Whitwhams recorked this, or perhaps just put their seal on over the to...

Mike - I should have asked - could you post a couple of pics of your bottle? (full bottle, and capsule from top/side) I've only ever seen one version of Cr45, with a distinctive bottle shape, bottled in Oporto with the T+C (Thomson and Croft) stamp on the red wax, so am curious as to what your bottl...

I've had very mixed experience with Whitwhams, but I suspect this may be somewhat self-selecting, since looking back at my records I can find only one port actually bottled by them, while there are several which have been recorked by them, and others where a Whitwhams generic label has been applied ...

But... what about the other bottle? (which also appears to be open)
Surely you didn't miss the opportunity to do a bottle variation comparison?

Interesting that you just necro'd this thread, as I was thinking about this tasting after yesterday's session where I again, against the crowd, liked the N55 very much, indeed my winner of the second flight despite the W55 being top notch. I must really like N55 for some reason...

Or... you could drop by Hedonism and buy a stash of D2017 halves at £38/bt.

jdaw1 wrote:Then the Cockburn will be opened Monday evening, decanted Tuesday morning.

I will be doing the same with the Thienpont.

Starter please: Grilled pitta, lemon and coriander houmous.

I can no longer make this date due to family commitments that have arisen.

I thoroughly agree that the posting of tasting notes should be encouraged. I think I should however challenge the veracity of: It used to be that most of a tasting’s attendees would post tasting notes. Gradually, it became fewer. And then, at about the start of the pandemic, we gave up. While it mig...

A small group of us were lucky enough to taste the 2021 Graham Stone Terraces while standing on Stone Terraces themselves at Malvedos on a lovely day during a visit to the property which fortuitously happened to the day of the release. The port was extremely fresh, full of layers and layers of soft ...

Looking at dates which might work for this tasting - how would the first week of October fit into people's diaries? That is, week commencing Monday 2nd October? That gives us a 2 week gap from the 1966 horizontal. Or the week before half term, that would be week commencing Monday 16th October. If w...

That makes fourteen (please check whether correctly done — if fifteen, the fourteenth will be waitlisted). You’ve missed Phil, Simon and Harry (who wasn’t sure so said make first on waitlist if full). I suspect we were not included because all three of us qualified our availability ("yes, prob...

Some of the "jump to" links don't work - D, L, X, Y & Z. LXYZ don't have any associated notes (so possibly might expect to jump to the nearest letter?), but D does. You're correct that L, X, Y Z don't work as there is no tasting note starting with those letters. Ideally I would sugges...

I would love to join you. In terms of 55s not listed I could provide either or both of Offley Boa Vista '55 (though I think Charles has that covered) and Theinpont '55 (unknown shipper, most likely Butler Nephew; I would tong to find out, if opening that one).

Yes please.
Currently to hand qLR and RO, and in storage F, G, W, V.
Also Q94c and G94c, though either or both might be drunk this summer.

yes please - I think; tend to try and go away one week in May avoiding travelling on bank holiday weekends, so will have to see how plans go.

Yes please. F, S or W.

Have 55, 60, 70. Will PM costs. Without your proposal I would have suggested <=87 or <=94 depending on whether we have any further older vintages; but I certainly have no problem with (either of) your proposal(s).

Yes please.

Hi Steve - To get the best from the wine I would recommend at least a four hour decant, and it would not suffer from eight hour if that were needed. I would suggest pulling the cork first thing in the morning, and just leaving the open bottle to stand. Then decant at lunchtime (probably decant into ...