Thursday 30th July 2026 - Virtual Tasting

[nac]

This will be three months since the previous event.
Who wants to stay in and play?

Theme - tbc
Venue - Zoom
Kick-off - 1900ish UK

Interested:

1. NAC
2. NPM
3. MSC
4. MPM
5. GEAG
6. JMK
7. GEE
8. MJW
9. AHB
10. PW
11. MC
12. ZDR
13. JM
14. RON
15. JDAW?

[NigelM]

yez pleez

[mcoulson]

Yes please

[flash_uk]

Yes please

[winesecretary]

Yes please

[Justin K]

Of course

[Glenn E.]

Yes please!

[Mike J. W.]

I'm game. Yes, please.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Yes please

[PhilW]

Yes please.

[M.Charlton]

Yes please.

[akzy]

Yes please. Should actually make it this time.

[Big Love]

Yes---please!

[rich_n]

Yes please.

[jdaw1]

Likely yes.

And I’ll edit the first post to update.

[nac]

I'll post the Zoom link via PMs on here shortly. Will set it from 1830 to 0200.

It's unlikely I'll be able to make it, so will give Mike meeting permissions. Shouldn't be needed, but you never know...

[NigelM]

I will be late to jump on but I will be there! Golf at 5pm and it takes me hours to hobble around

[nac]

Link has been sent.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Do we want to have a theme?

[winesecretary]

Theme: Freestyle: Some kind of liquid, possibly alcoholic?

[Justin K]

Port you bought at auction that you definitely did not intend to bid on but as no one else was bidding was a shame to pass up any resemblance to Joycean punctuation was intended

[Glenn E.]

Mine is probably going to be "leftovers from last weekend" because it's going to take me 3 more days to recover enough to even think about drinking more Port.

[Mike J. W.]

Mine is probably going to be "leftovers from last weekend" because it's going to take me 3 more days to recover enough to even think about drinking more Port.

Right now your liver is alternately singing and cursing you...as is mine.

[winesecretary]

I like the Joycean theme how about Irish bottled port?

[Alex Bridgeman]

Port you bought at auction that you definitely did not intend to bid on but as no one else was bidding was a shame to pass up any resemblance to Joycean punctuation was intended

That would get rid of one of the tregnums of Graham 2016 I bought for nearly nothing a couple of years ago and which are now just taking up space in the cellar. What on earth was I thinking?

[rich_n]

Port you bought at auction that you definitely did not intend to bid on but as no one else was bidding was a shame to pass up any resemblance to Joycean punctuation was intended

That would get rid of one of the tregnums of Graham 2016 I bought for nearly nothing a couple of years ago and which are now just taking up space in the cellar. What on earth was I thinking?

If you ever need to offload one...

[Mike J. W.]

Port you bought at auction that you definitely did not intend to bid on but as no one else was bidding was a shame to pass up any resemblance to Joycean punctuation was intended

That would get rid of one of the tregnums of Graham 2016 I bought for nearly nothing a couple of years ago and which are now just taking up space in the cellar. What on earth was I thinking?

There's a good chance that Glenn might be drinking the same exact port in the same size bottle on Thursday. He brought that as a bonus bottle to a tasting this weekend. It was excellent! He probably has about a 1/4 to a 1/3 of the bottle left.

[Glenn E.]

Port you bought at auction that you definitely did not intend to bid on but as no one else was bidding was a shame to pass up any resemblance to Joycean punctuation was intended

That would get rid of one of the tregnums of Graham 2016 I bought for nearly nothing a couple of years ago and which are now just taking up space in the cellar. What on earth was I thinking?

There's a good chance that Glenn might be drinking the same exact port in the same size bottle on Thursday. He brought that as a bonus bottle to a tasting this weekend. It was excellent! He probably has about a 1/4 to a 1/3 of the bottle left.

We actually did a pretty job at dinner on Sunday night, so there's probably only 3-4 glasses left. But yes, that's what I plan to drink on Thursday! My other option is the corked Brunheda Cask 48, but it was corked enough that even I could tell something was wrong so that bottle may never get finished.

I have one more 2016 GST at Seckford's. Plus a 2016 Graham, a 2017 Vesuvio Capela, a 2017 Graham, and a 2021 GST. Then here at home I also still have a 2016 Vesuvio Capela, a 2017 Vesuvio Capela, and a 2017 GST.

Hmm. It seems I have an "extra" 2017 Capela. What to do? What to do?

[winesecretary]

I am now a 'maybe' for this due to pressure of work (boo!) before I go on holiday (yay!). Hope to see you tomorrow. with the leftovers from the weekend's Warre 1970.

[flash_uk]

I'll post the Zoom link via PMs on here shortly. Will set it from 1830 to 0200.

It's unlikely I'll be able to make it, so will give Mike meeting permissions. Shouldn't be needed, but you never know...

I have opened the Zoom and will leave it open in case I'm busy around 7pm UK time. I'm on dinner duty tonight so will likely be closer to 8pm before I join.

[Glenn E.]

I am online. I'm currently drinking coffee because it's still morning for me, but I have Port ready to go!