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Derek T. wrote:I seem to have 12 Morgan 1991's fewer now than I did 12 months ago

A funny feeling told me that might be your answer - but then where are the 12 tasting notes that I'm sure you wrote...

An emergency decant, tasted after one hour. A short, unbranded cork and a modest amount of sediment of the purple/red grape skin variety. An impenetrable red colour with a purple edge. Nose of dust and blackcurrants. Smooth entry, dry but ripe tannic grip but lots of sweet ripe fruit. Initially nice...

Possible, depends on my architect. He was supposed to phone today and let me know, but hasn't.

But 19:00 is good for me.

Conky wrote:Shipper-----Fonseca
Vintage-----1985.

Not intentinally, but quite pleased. Not a bad combination.

Alan

Very respectable - mine was Warre 1985

Of course you'll be fine, we'll all swear blind that there's only one bottle of port per person and by the time we've taken into account all the losses through decanting and evaporation then it will be nearly only a bottle per person. And the 9:55 from Heathrow - hopefully you're staying in a hotel ...

Out of idle curiosity and completely unsure what I can do with the information, I'm interested to learn which vintage you think you drank most often in 2007. My choice of vintage when I open a bottle is always a balance between older ports - which I love but can't afford all the time - and replaceme...

So I pulled my bottles for the '66 tasting out of their resting places last night. I can now officially describe myself as excited.

The only question is, what do I open over the weekend to build up to the events of Monday?

Alex

jdaw1 wrote:

AHB wrote:Back to plan B.

Err, plan A surely?

Not quite - plan A includes John. I'd love for him to be able to join us at the last minute, but we are planning that he won't be able to make it.

Back to plan B. We are expecting 12 people for Monday's tasting so we can go back to including the Nacional in the line up provided everyone is willing to add an additional £4 each as we go from sharing the cost between 13 people to sharing between 12.

I shall stand the bottle back up again!

Alex

I would also add that there is a member of this forum who might be very interested in your bottle as he was born in 1965 and, the vintage not being a widely declared one, he is always interested to buy or share bottles from '65. Derek is probably also the only person who is able to provide you with ...

I've had a heads-up that there may be a couple of more people who may not be able to make the tasting on Monday. If this turns out to be the case, I can't in all good conscience, take their money for the Nacional knowing that they will not be with us. Instead, I propose that we keep the Nacional for...

Although I have little personal interest in buying larger format bottles (except for a Nebuchadnezzar of 1896 we know of in London), I do think that the rule is eccentric in the extreme. I would be willing to support a campaign to change such a rule just on the principles of supporting free trade. A...

I have a slight problem now in that I have an architect coming to visit the house (to help design - amongst other things - my wine cellar!) on either the Wednesday or the Thursday. I won't know which until early next week. However, I am still committed to meet up on one of the two nights - I just do...

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It would not be inaccurate to describe me as potentially evidencing signs of demonstrable anticipation...but stiff upper lips chaps. We are British you know.

Rather!

If I remember correctly, 1995 is one of Tom's Tips for best recent undeclared vintage.

I'm certainly enjoying making a debt in the world's supply of 1995 Croft's Roeda!

Alex

That is a perfectly respectable suggestion. I will see what fuel the Crusting Pipe uses in its kitchen and how they would feel about us using tongs.


Alex

Andy, You might be right. I wouldn't normally expect a port to show so differently at 12 hours compared to 36 hours. I came back to the decanter with the thought in my mind of "I'll finish this off before I open another bottle. It's not great but it's not worth wasting." What I found was s...

We can always do a semi-blind tasting - just wrap your bottle in foil before serving.

Alex

I can't believe the difference another 24 hours in the decanter has made to this port. Now decanted for 36 hours, it has blossomed and is much better integrated and more pleasurable than this time last night. Perhaps slightly darker than last night, but not subtantially so, this port now smells of s...

I don't think there's a wireless connection available in the Crusting Pipe, but there is a weak mobile connection if you have a 3G card rather than a WiFi card.

But I may be wrong, I don't think I've ever actually tried to connect wirelessly from the tunnel.

Alex

Alan,

Great summary and pictures. Thanks for posting them! Make sure to bring the late-night-Derek-asleep snap with you on Jan 28

Alex

Tsunami should suggest the theme since he is travelling to London and is organising the offline. But, if I may offer a humbe suggestion, I would suggest that we keep this as an extremely informal offline and make it "Bring (or buy) a bottle of port" for the purpose of the offline is to mee...

Much as I would like to acquire 10 bottles of 1963 Nacional, I don't think that I will be leaving a bid.

Perhaps another day!

Alex

I can easily do either (but not both) of the 30th or 31st. The Wednesday is probably a slight preference, but by no means a strong preference. And if no-one else has the stamina for an offline during the week then I'm sure I could rustle up a few other people who are not on TPF to join in - we just ...