ThePortForum.com

mcoulson wrote: ↑15:34 Mon 19 Feb 2024 is defiantly happening

This is a Port tasting. We are not defiant revolutionaries; we are traditionalist scientists testing hypotheses.

Draft of the placemats added to first post.

cem wrote: ↑14:47 Thu 01 Feb 2024with places for up to 14 people total.

For reason of table space, please can it be restricted to eleven people, so at most one more.

cem wrote: ↑14:47 Thu 01 Feb 2024Rule 2: No 21st Century wines.

How pedantic are you?

My cigars, since purchase stored perfectly by Alfred Dunhill, are being auctioned at CGars, March 2024. My lots are 3, 4, 30, 38–41, 44, 47, and 52.

Some juicy bits in this. As an answer to the original post, my favourites: the desire to select a small number of grape varieties (5-6), and chosen for their contribution of colour. I have no doubt at all that de-stemming and taking out the stalks from a fermentation makes a fundamental change in th...

I have few ’77s; CEM has many, and also I have drunk very well from from CEM’s cellar. So the fair thing is to move me to first reserve, thus promoting CEM into the fourteenth seat. Yes please, I have 'some' of this vintage and can help with adoption if needed Translation: ‘some’ = approximately eve...

MigSU wrote: ↑18:41 Sat 10 Feb 2024That worries me. I sincerely hope that, in the quest to make VPs more approachable at a younger age, producers haven't stunted their long term longevity.

The observation is that Port seems to age slower. That might well be the opposite of “stunted their long term longevity”.

Yes please. I have Taylor.

Is 30-year-old Vintage Port darker than it used to be? At yesterday’s Vesuvio tasting , the early 1990s VPs were dark. As best I can recall, 1963s were definitely paler than that in the early 1990s, and near the turn of the millennium 1970s were definitely paler than that. This observation is not sp...

mcoulson wrote: ↑20:59 Sat 03 Feb 2024If you can make the tweak George suggests that would be great

CPR = Charles, whose tweak is done. Is there another fix that I’m missing?

CPR 1 wrote: ↑20:39 Sat 03 Feb 2024If not too late could we adjust the placemats so that the 07 and 07 Capella are side by side, and the same for the two 11? (Move 05 to top right, and then the pairs below)

Believed done. Please check satisfactory.

Who is to print the placemats?

Yes please.

I said that

jdaw1 wrote: ↑23:31 Sat 27 Jan 2024A quorum shall be three.

If we aren’t three by 20:00 tonight = Sunday, then my emergency can be a home-alone†-emergency.


† Alone meaning without you splendid people. Family are in a different category.

1994s: I have Martinez, Noval, Dow, Graham.

I’m thirsty. It is an emergency. Monday 29th January 2024. You know the drill. Location: assume The Boot & Flogger , which I haven’t yet booked. Theme: bring either • a SQVP, at least fifteen years old, so vintage ≤2009; or • something else. A quorum shall be three. Thou mayest count five.

Yes please.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑00:17 Wed 24 Jan 2024Jack’s initials are JD and he is right-handed.

Done: updated draft of the placemats.

Glenn E. wrote: ↑01:00 Sat 20 Jan 2024SCP-DFS

I appreciated the reference.

nac wrote: ↑10:52 Thu 18 Jan 2024A question raised elsewhere, that probably needs asking here...

Should we be thinking about a 1945 @ 80 tasting next year?
Do we have sufficient bottles?
Would it be prohibitively expensive?
Full event for 14 or smaller event?

FYI.

MigSU wrote: ↑18:52 Wed 17 Jan 20246 x Warre Cavadinha 2006, directly from SFE, at €16 a piece. These are probably drinking nicely right now, but will probably better in 5 or 10 years. I might wait - or not.

Are these available in the UK?

Draft of the placemats, images having been added to first post. Please check people. Please check Ports. Please check Port-people matching. Please check everything else.

nac wrote: ↑15:06 Thu 21 Apr 2022JDAW - 1981/82/84/86 Warre

My 1984 Warre is no longer available.

The Wine Society, £45, London - Portugal Growers - Walkaround Tasting, Monday 18 March 2024, 18:00–20:30, at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, 30 Threadneedle Street EC2R 8JB.

When decisions have been made about people, vintages, and who is bringing what, pls ping me to make the placemats.

Yes please.