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No, please do not read too much into the lack of posting other than the fact that much port was consumed and good conversation was had. I should also thank Alex and Axel for their very kind hospitality in hosting my brief visit on my last trip to Germany while working for my soon-to-be-former employ...

Hi KSCO2

We look forward to sharing some ports - or at least some conversations about port - with you in the future.

From what little I know about the SAC, the fact that you have to travel frequently to the US must be a great help to the finances of indulging in fine wines and vintage ports!

Alex

Given the company, I would nominate a bottle of Vargellas 1964 as my contribution. Not sure of dates, however. I need to get my new job under my belt to understand what my travel and other commitments will be. The good news is that my office will be on the same train line as I use to get home from a...

benread wrote: How about a QDV offline theme!

Nice idea. I have a couple of bottles of mature vintages of Vargellas and it would be great to open them in like company.

Perhaps a young port, tasting of blackcurrant juice, doesn't count as alcohol.

I'm interested in trying a few colheitas, having relatively little experience with them. I do know that in my new role I will need to travel in to London once or twice a month, but I don't yet know when I will next be sent in. I probably have most chance of making a London offline towards the end of...

I've been a bit busy the last couple of days so was not able to post on the tasting until now. We started on time and found TCP packed. The three of us (Ben, Jacob and I) squeezed around one of the tables in the back and were initially told that we could not eat off the dinner menu unless we sat at ...

A first anniversary is a paper anniversary, so you should open a bottle of port which has a paper label or paper sello. Does that help you to decide? Hmm. Perhaps it doesn't, OK. I vote for the colheita only because you can drink them slightly chilled and that may be a welcome relief in the heat of ...

Are we into meaningless drivel yet?

Or perhaps a merchant ship which carries dairy products but doesn't go into deep water?

g-man wrote:I shall try such feat in the tropical jungles around Thailand during the honey moon!

will post pics =) have a great 2 weeks everybody!

Are you on honeymoon with Uncle Tom? I think he said he was in Thailand...

Placemats printed and (hopefully) accompanying me into London tomorrow.

I would also vote for not changing the initials of the person who made the first post. I don't tend to use the information on who the poster was, just read the note if I want to know what someone thought of the port. I vote to leave things alone on the initials of the poster. But linking to a name a...

KillerB wrote:Much as I would like to attend this, I'm sorry to say that I have to attend a funeral in Lancashire.

Sorry to hear that. Hope everything goes as well as it can on days like this.

The use of a funnel has to be trialled before being offered to everyone as a working concept - when I bought it I didn't have any miniature bottles with me (I realise this may come as a surprise to some who read this post, but I admit I was not properly prepared for this shopping trip into town) and...

In addition to a small number of the 60cl (I love that size) sample bottles, I have also invested 79p into a small food grade plastic funnel.

Do you think that the very good impression you had of this wine was because of the extra bottle age that the port had before you drank it?

There is one port which is titled "Niepoort vintage port vintage port LBV
2004: MM on 14 Oct 2008"

Does anyone remember which bottle, when opened, had a cork that fell apart and was given to me to rebuild and confirm the identity of the port in question? I think it was one which Derek brought and opened.

benread wrote:I now have the perfect bottle of "port" for this - just 2 months too late!

Remember that the theme for Thursday's offline is "Port You'd Like to Share with a Fellow Port lover" - this surely does not count. Please?

Was this the bottle which had a cork completely disintegrate, and which I took home to rebuild?

I hadn't spotted that. Interesting.

I've just investigated the price of self-storage for use during my forthcoming building project. My local depot charges £15 per month for a room of 15 square feet with a 10 foot ceiling. The facility is heated so does not get too cold in the winter but is not air conditioned so would not be great fo...

I haven't bought any port since before Christmas - that's nearly a month now. Is this the credit crunch having an impact?

Passing the time - drive to York
Eating - Russels in York, fabulous roast carvery
Passing the time in the mornings - drive back to Leeds