Page 1 of 4

Mz Vertical - 75 years of Martinez - London, 26 Nov 2014

Posted: 16:18 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by PhilW
Date: 26th Nov 2014
Time: 18:30
Location: Davy's Woolgate Bar and Brasserie
Vintages: 1922, 1927, 1934, 1948, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1970, 1973 (crusted), 1975, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989 (crusted), 1994, 1997

Places will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis; please reply below. I intend that we will invite one industry guest, whose costs will be covered by the attendees. Cost will be £240 per person including all port, food, corkage etc.

Participants:
  1. PW
  2. JDAW
  3. WPS
  4. RAYC
  5. AHB
  6. THRA
  7. CMAG
  8. AP
  9. DJ
  10. CPR
  11. MPM
  12. IDJ
  13. forest26
  14. (spare)
Reserves:
  • -none-

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 16:18 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by jdaw1
Yes please.

(And I have done the obvious reporting.)

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 16:43 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by Axel P
Yes, please. Do count me in.

Axel

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 17:03 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by WS1
Thanks that I am already on the list :wink:

regards

WS1

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 17:28 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
Yes please.. oh hold on.. was this table full before the thread was started..?

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 17:39 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by PhilW
djewesbury wrote:Yes please.. oh hold on.. was this table full before the thread was started..?
Nope, not full yet. Some initial discussion was had with a few individuals to see if we could source sufficient range of bottles for the event - those have been included for obvious reasons; others replied by PM and email.

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 17:40 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
Yes please.

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 17:55 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by PhilW
Nov 10th now eliminated due to contributors' unavailability at that time; tasting will therefore be the night before BBR port walk, estimated as Nov 26th (with BBR port walk on Nov 27th)

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 18:02 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
PhilW wrote:contributors unavailability
Are you doing this on purpose? Or just to give JDAW something to do?

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 19:24 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by WS1
djewesbury wrote:
PhilW wrote:contributors unavailability
Are you doing this on purpose? Or just to give JDAW something to do?
No; I do not thinks so since I am one of the contributors who very likely cannot attend on the 10th since likley being in Burgundy and others prefering the night before the Port walk anyway; so agreement was found.

Do you have a problem with this?

regards

WS1

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 19:35 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by PhilW
WS1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
PhilW wrote:contributors unavailability
Are you doing this on purpose? Or just to give JDAW something to do?
No; I do not thinks so since I am one of the contributors who very likely cannot attend on the 10th since likley being in Burgundy and others prefering the night before the Port walk anyway; so agreement was found.

Do you have a problem with this?

regards

WS1
It wasn't just you Wolfgang - but I think Daniel is pointing out my missing apostrophe, rather than having problems with the organisation.

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 19:36 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
PhilW wrote:
WS1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
PhilW wrote:contributors unavailability
Are you doing this on purpose? Or just to give JDAW something to do?
No; I do not thinks so since I am one of the contributors who very likely cannot attend on the 10th since likley being in Burgundy and others prefering the night before the Port walk anyway; so agreement was found.

Do you have a problem with this?

regards

WS1
It wasn't just you Wolfgang - but I think Daniel is pointing out my missing apostrophe, rather than having problems with the organisation.
Yes sorry - it was the apostrophe!
Oops.

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 19:40 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by WS1
djewesbury wrote:
PhilW wrote:
WS1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
PhilW wrote:contributors unavailability
Are you doing this on purpose? Or just to give JDAW something to do?
No; I do not thinks so since I am one of the contributors who very likely cannot attend on the 10th since likley being in Burgundy and others prefering the night before the Port walk anyway; so agreement was found.

Do you have a problem with this?

regards

WS1
It wasn't just you Wolfgang - but I think Daniel is pointing out my missing apostrophe, rather than having problems with the organisation.
Yes sorry - it was the apostrophe!
Oops.
:lol: Clearly I missed this subtlety being not a native English speaker!

Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 20:04 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
WS1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
PhilW wrote:
WS1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
PhilW wrote:contributors unavailability
Are you doing this on purpose? Or just to give JDAW something to do?
No; I do not thinks so since I am one of the contributors who very likely cannot attend on the 10th since likley being in Burgundy and others prefering the night before the Port walk anyway; so agreement was found.

Do you have a problem with this?

regards

WS1
It wasn't just you Wolfgang - but I think Daniel is pointing out my missing apostrophe, rather than having problems with the organisation.
Yes sorry - it was the apostrophe!
Oops.
:lol: Clearly I missed this subtlety being not a native English speaker!
We nearly had an international incident - I'll disarm the cruise missiles!

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 21:38 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by CPR 1
Yes please

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 21:56 Thu 30 Jan 2014
by RAYC
I will keep an eye on the final date that gets decided before formally confirming if that's ok - i am unlikely to do both this event and BBR port walk on consecutive nights (have found i rarely enjoy the second event).

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 18:13 Sun 06 Apr 2014
by flash_uk
Would very much like to join this one if possible please.

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, Nov 2014

Posted: 21:42 Sun 06 Apr 2014
by PhilW
flash_uk wrote:Would very much like to join this one if possible please.
No problem, you are added. Final line-up and costing just pending response from one contributor, then I will confirm with all with defined date.

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, 26 Nov 2014

Posted: 09:26 Sun 11 May 2014
by PhilW
This tasting is now confirmed for 26th Nov. The line-up is looking good, I am currently expecting this to be:
1922, 1927, 1934, 1948, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1970, 1973 (crusted), 1975, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989 (crusted)
From the contributors' comments, we seem to have excellent provenance on most bottles; I will be purchasing three of the later bottles from retail as we do not have them between us (if anyone has the 75, 82 or 87 and hasn't mentioned it, then please let me know asap). The cost is confirmed at £240 including all port, food, corkage, tip. TBH function room is booked, with separate table outside for food, and I will sort decanting arrangements nearer the time.

I have reconfirmed that the date is acceptable to all people contributing bottles; If all other participants could now also please re-confirm their intention to attend now that the date, cost and line-up are defined, I will contact via PM to collect monies and mark you as confirmed on the initial post.

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, 26 Nov 2014

Posted: 13:38 Sun 11 May 2014
by flash_uk
OK for me thx. Are you missing any bottles still?

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, 26 Nov 2014

Posted: 15:01 Sun 11 May 2014
by PhilW
flash_uk wrote:OK for me thx. Are you missing any bottles still?
I'm currently planning to buy '75, '82 and '87 retail, unless someone has them already and hasn't mentioned it yet.

Other known vintages within '22 to '90 which we do not have are '31, '45, '50, '53 and '78, but these were neither available from amongst ourselves, nor retail, hence not present in line-up.

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, 26 Nov 2014

Posted: 15:18 Sun 11 May 2014
by DRT
PhilW wrote:If all other participants could now also please re-confirm their intention to attend now that the date, cost and line-up are defined, I will contact via PM to collect monies and mark you as confirmed on the initial post.
I'm in :D

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, 26 Nov 2014

Posted: 16:20 Sun 11 May 2014
by Axel P
Just booked the flights. Therefore please count me in.

Axel

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, 26 Nov 2014

Posted: 19:26 Sun 11 May 2014
by djewesbury
Yes. I'm no longer provisional.

Re: Martinez Vertical - London, 26 Nov 2014

Posted: 23:29 Sun 11 May 2014
by DRT
djewesbury wrote:Yes. I'm no longer provisional.
Not a good idea to use the "p" word from an NI IP address :roll: