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Excellent read from the BBC

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

Always loved Lady Mondegreen, although she was frightfully sad.

I cannot resist. After an American politician mixed up 'your' and 'you're', I was reminded of the following:

http://www.tickld.com/pic/t/381012

Please forgive the slight crudeness.....

The Warre is still drinkable, and improved somewhat over the next couple of days. I have 11 more bottles of it, and will steadily go through it over the coming weeks. In general, I find Warre a lighter port than a Fonseca, Taylor, Graham or Dow, and it has not been the WOTN when I have put it up aga...

I got a few, but not as many as I wanted. Prices weren't bad for most of them.

80% Opaque. 12 hour decant.

Unsophisticated, simple, thin, sweet without that much flavour.

Drinkable, but not something I would often crave.

My current cellar defender.

12 1994 Taylor
12 1994 Dow
12 1991 Dow
12 1991 Guimarens
6 1996 Vesuvio
6 1995 Vesuvio

Have sent you an e-mail.

In which case, what about the maturity of magnums or double magnums? Would these be twice the maturity of a regular bottle? The magnums I have had of older ports have not drank that much differently than regular bottles (next Christmas, by way of experiment, I will give a try at a 77 Graham magnum v...

I can heartily recommend Vivaldi's The Four Seasons at St Michael's cathedral in Vienna. It is a very pleasant evening, especially in summer.

If they have not been sold, I would like to buy them when I am through Edinburgh next month. Let me know by pm at what price you might be interested to sell them.

Although we tend to follow the guideline that vintage port should be at least 21 years of age, I can only think of two vintages that I thought might be "past it", the 1950 (only had Cockburn) and the 1958 (Warre and Sandeman)- and there seems to be a recent assessment among the members her...

My daughter lives in Edinburgh, and I might be able to persuade her to buy and hold these for me until I get there next month. Will pm you.

Had a wonderful lunar eclipse - a "blood moon" as I understand it is called, over Tokyo tonight. Very impressive.

Goodness. What a diversity of opinion in that poll.

Good luck and clear skies to those that will hunt Pitbull.

A 1985 Dow in 1988. Forgive me. I knew not what I was doing, but I really enjoyed it.

Whilst I certainly had a couple of more in between, a year later, my friends bought a 1966 Graham for my wedding, and I was hooked. The 1966 Graham is still one of my favourites.

DRT wrote:I am firmly in camp two. They should all be made to eat bacon rolls.

I am a firm believer in eating vegetarians.

LGTrotter wrote:Is there an answer as to which vintage, or vintages, are like the 85s? As I said before I can't think of any.

Perhaps it is my imagination, but it seems that before 1977, so many of the vintages were either spectacular or very ordinary.

Very interesting dialogue on the Fonseca, Graham, and Taylor. Any recent thoughts on the 85 Croft, Dow, Warre, Cockburn, Sandeman? From afar, it appears that a highly objective, completely scientific "Great 1985 Horizontal" experiment is in order - blind, of course (as we shall be by the e...

DRT wrote:

griff wrote:My question is for all the paranoid out there. Where am I while I am typing this question?

In a lead-lined bunker with a tinfoil hat on surrounded by canned goods, bottled water and semi-automatic weapons?

Definitely not. There were no strangers at my family reunion.

Glenn E. wrote:I like vegetables. They are what food eats.

Indeed, well-cooked vegetarians can be quite tasty.

LGTrotter wrote:But isn't it rather mean of me not to store up treasure for future generations? I salute those magnums of 2011 as a beacon of hope.

Indeed. The 2011 imperials represent the height of altruism for yet to be born grandchildren.

jdaw1 wrote:Some audience statistics.

• The Word Cup: several billion.

• Wiseman Explains Everything: 3.

Make that 4 - at least once, anyway.