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- 17:30 Thu 04 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: The World's Largest Bottle of Port
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9916
Re: The World's Largest Bottle of Port
6 hours to go and still only $1400, with no reserve. That works out at $10.70 per bottle, to which you need to add buyer’s premium and sales tax. Say $14 per bottle all in. I wonder what Bin27 sells for in New York? It is $18 at Sherry Lehman, who aren't known for great prices. It can be ordered ov...
- 18:32 Tue 02 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Taking a 1963 port to a restaurant?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12305
Re: Taking a 1963 port to a restaurant?
Note to self: if taking your own Port to a restaurant in WA, use a t-stopper and a heat-shrink capsule. The restaurant will never know the bottle has already been opened, double-decanted and resealed. Or just take a Tawny Port. :wink: But that is a great idea... I may need to look into heat-shrink ...
- 23:53 Mon 01 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
- Replies: 189
- Views: 97425
Re: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Something similar happened with the 1st Edition for me, so I just ignored it this time around.
- 23:52 Mon 01 May 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Taking a 1963 port to a restaurant?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12305
Re: Taking a 1963 port to a restaurant?
I'd go with #3 if that's legal in your area. Here in WA, USA, they have to open the bottle or they will not allow you to drink it. It's probably some kind of liability thing... for all they know it might be spiked and they're liable if you leave the restaurant drunk and get in an accident. If #3 is ...
- 05:06 Wed 26 Apr 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - 16 May 2024
- Replies: 90
- Views: 192901
Re: Taylor Single Harvest Tawny Tasting - date tbc
Very interested, but unlikely to be able to attend.
- 05:05 Wed 26 Apr 2023
- Forum: Reference
- Topic: Port brand abbreviations
- Replies: 346
- Views: 267908
Re: Port brand abbreviations
Works for me.Alex Bridgeman wrote:While on the letter P, can we grab Pe for Petre’s Port? We have tasting notes for 3 vintages in the index and I’m sure there are at least another couple of vintages about.
- 00:16 Sat 22 Apr 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2021 Declarations
- Replies: 30
- Views: 45302
Re: 2021 Declarations
Graham's have posted on Twitter that they have declared a 2021 Stone Terraces, as predicted by Alex. They say they will bottle 4,800 75cl bottles and 280 tappit hens (225cl). I was intrigued to see that they've only declared the Stone Terraces but no mention of a regular Graham VP. It'll be interes...
- 22:45 Fri 21 Apr 2023
- Forum: Reference
- Topic: Port brand abbreviations
- Replies: 346
- Views: 267908
- 22:33 Fri 21 Apr 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2021 Declarations
- Replies: 30
- Views: 45302
Re: 2021 Declarations
Yes, they are the "normal" shaped bottles like they used in 2016 and 2017.
- 21:51 Tue 18 Apr 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Wed 3rd May 2023: Port Fit For a King’s Coronation
- Replies: 27
- Views: 47612
Re: Wed 3rd May 2023: Port Fit For a King’s Coronation
I dunno, it seems to me that the theme is appropriate for an event that some people aren't able to attend.
- 20:18 Tue 04 Apr 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: A newbie question on provenance
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14877
Re: A newbie question on provenance
I have only tried the Croft '03 (a bit underwhelmed, seemed somewhat simple, lacking fruit). I don't know whether or not you are aware, but Vintage Port tends to go through what we call a "down" phase that starts around 5-10 years after bottling and then lasts for perhaps 10-15 years. Ver...
- 17:54 Tue 04 Apr 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
Full marks for referring to the big bottles of 2016 and 2107 of Stone Terraces as tregnums. You are absolutely correct. Even though most wine sites probably use the terms interchangeably, I tend to use tregnum for 2.25 liter standard shape bottles and Tappit Hen for everything else in that volume r...
- 22:05 Mon 03 Apr 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
I need to get a 6-pack or so of the 2015 Quinta dos Malvedos to add to future verticals. I probably don't need 2 full cases of 2021 Stone Terraces, but if I can find them I'll certainly buy them! That's what I picked up of 2016 and 2017, not counting the tregnums. I ultimately bought a total of 2 ca...
- 18:58 Fri 31 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
Perfectly timed Facebook memory from 2019, given one of the topics yesterday!
- 18:53 Fri 31 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
I, at least, would prefer to be corrected! I'm slowly learning Portuguese via Duolingo, but unfortunately it is Brazilian and not continental. I know some of the "rules" to switch between the two, but far from all of them. Combine that with what I'm sure is a very thick American accent, an...
- 19:47 Thu 30 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
Pre-meeting is over, we're now in the full meeting. Second link in the message from Alex.
- 18:45 Thu 30 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
My meeting is dragging a bit... looks like it's going to take the full hour rather than the hoped-for 45 min.
- 18:52 Wed 29 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
I don't think there's any need to keep them secret - it's not like we're all gathering in one place for a blind tasting!
I have a 10 Year Old S. Leonardo White Port open, and if that turns out to be insufficient I'll probably open a 1995 or 1997 Porto Souza VP.
I have a 10 Year Old S. Leonardo White Port open, and if that turns out to be insufficient I'll probably open a 1995 or 1997 Porto Souza VP.
- 18:08 Wed 29 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
I have a free Zoom account, which gives me the ability to host meetings for up to 40 minutes. Given Glenn has a meeting running until 11am / 7pm UK I'll set up a meeting for us to get together at 6.30pm UK. Once Glenn is finished, we can switch over to his account and continue for as long as we wan...
- 20:18 Tue 28 Mar 2023
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: which are the biggest quintas?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7565
Re: which are the biggest quintas?
Carvalhas, Vesuvio, Vargellas, and Vale Meao are all quite large. But as I posted on FTLOP, there are really two answers to this question:
1) largest physically
2) largest in terms of cultivated land (land under vine)
Some very large quintas in the Douro are only relatively sparsely planted.
1) largest physically
2) largest in terms of cultivated land (land under vine)
Some very large quintas in the Douro are only relatively sparsely planted.
- 23:13 Mon 27 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
I've set up the meeting to begin at (I hope) 6:00 pm London time, but it's now beginning to look like I have a meeting from 10-11 Pacific time that I really cannot skip. I'll post here as I get further information, but it looks like we may need to delay the start until 7:00 pm London time. (I was go...
- 18:55 Thu 23 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
Is anyone willing and able to host us on Zoom, and to send out the Zoom invites? I have a paid account and am happy to host, but it might degrade performance to have the host in Seattle and just about everyone else in London. :lol: I'm not sure that I have contact information for everyone, though, ...
- 22:32 Wed 22 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
Sometimes we have a loose theme - IIRC we've done whites and LBVs before - but most of the time it's just bring something to drink and chat with friends.
- 23:48 Tue 21 Mar 2023
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
- Replies: 60
- Views: 79585
Re: Thu 30 March 2023 - An Online Tasting with Friends
In addition to receiving meager allotments of vacation here in the US compared to those of you in the UK/EU, we're often capped on the amount that we can have saved up at any given time. I am (once again) approaching that limit and am considering taking the Thursday off for this tasting. Are we stil...
- 20:01 Tue 21 Mar 2023
- Forum: Other Fortified Wines
- Topic: Madeira for Beginners
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7697
Re: Madeira for Beginners
For example, whilst i knew that the regulation was problematic with usual issues like a bottle of Sercial not having to be exclusively Sercial That's pretty common in the wine industry, actually. In the US the normal limit is that at least 75% must be the as-labeled grape variety, but there are exc...