AHB wrote:!we simply decided that the tasting was already so large and expensive!we would prefer to call upon Jay's generosity at another time - perhaps in a Taylor & Vargellas complete 20th Century Vertical.
Excluding unofficial bottlings, I make that 60 bottles!
Why would we want to exclude unofficial bottlings? Do you have something against the Taylor 1948 or Taylor 1950 Special Quinta bottlings or the Vargellas 1970 bottling?
Alex
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Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
AHB wrote:!we simply decided that the tasting was already so large and expensive!we would prefer to call upon Jay's generosity at another time - perhaps in a Taylor & Vargellas complete 20th Century Vertical.
Excluding unofficial bottlings, I make that 60 bottles!
Why would we want to exclude unofficial bottlings? Do you have something against the Taylor 1948 or Taylor 1950 Special Quinta bottlings or the Vargellas 1970 bottling?
Alex
But how would we know when we had sourced every unofficial bottle--a necessity to make it ‟complete”? And why stop at 1900? Shouldn’t a vertical of this nature start with the Waterloo vintage?
JacobH wrote:And we really ought to compare British v. Oporto bottlings.
This is really a separate tasting. There are many UK bottlers, varying from excellent to not so. They can’t be lumped together. I’d much rather work on a couple of vintages, say ’63 and ’70, and two or three wines from each (not necessarily the same), with multiple bottlers.
JacobH wrote:A legitimate add-on to this tasting would be magnums v. 75cl v. 37.5cl as many Taylor vintages were bottled in both of those.
The non-serious part was that it should be a one-day tasting. AHB needless to say was entirely serious about the idea of a complete Taylor vertical. But not in one session.
jdaw1 wrote:The non-serious part was that it should be a one-day tasting. AHB needless to say was entirely serious about the idea of a complete Taylor vertical. But not in one session.
A complete 20th C. Taylor vertical would be a mere 27 bottles; it’s adding the Vargellas that causes it to be a lunch+dinner prospect...
JacobH wrote:A complete 20th C. Taylor vertical would be a mere 27 bottles; it’s adding the Vargellas that causes it to be a lunch+dinner prospect...
By British standards I might be a light-weight, but I’d rather split twenty-seven bottles into two sessions. For my modest capacity the Vargellas suggested a multi-day tasting.
jdaw1 wrote:The non-serious part was that it should be a one-day tasting. AHB needless to say was entirely serious about the idea of a complete Taylor vertical. But not in one session.
A complete 20th C. Taylor vertical would be a mere 27 bottles; it’s adding the Vargellas that causes it to be a lunch+dinner prospect...
I'm still slightly confused as to why it could not be an 1815-2006(7?) vertical. If we included a Friday afternoon and evening as well as Morning, afternoon and evening on Saturday and Sunday that would give us 8 sessions of 18 bottles = 144. That would allow us to amend the title to a snappier "A Gross of Taylor Vintages"
"The first duty of Port is to be red" Ernest H. Cockburn
DRT wrote:I'm still slightly confused as to why it could not be an 1815-2006(7?) vertical. If we included a Friday afternoon and evening as well as Morning, afternoon and evening on Saturday and Sunday that would give us 8 sessions of 18 bottles = 144. That would allow us to amend the title to a snappier "A Gross of Taylor Vintages"
I was simply following the rule of AHB who pronounced it thus. If I were to have a say, I add would released and unreleased Terra Feita vintages, which I think are somewhat undervalued.
Any thoughts about placemat design? This is the best I can do without my computer melting down whilst trying to generate the PDF, but it would require an A2 printer!
benread wrote:
Please explain the term "amigos" and who may hold status "mother superior" as you use it?! ( As referenced in your constitution)
Come to Los Angeles and everyone will be your "amigo" and will give you a "mother superior" while releaving you of your wallet while pointing a "saturday night special" at you
jdaw1 wrote:Placemats: use the GlassesOnSheets parameter to split the glasses over many A4 pages.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t generate the contents of that parameter with a single regex, so I took the path of least resistance and substituted 2 for 4 in the /PaperType parameter
Incidentally, there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent function to split the tasting notes over more than one sheet!
I am definitely in on this one. Who is wearing the organisational hat? We definitely need a frame for this tasting. I am fully open to everything involved though not being able to contribute anything else than some connections to the house and all the following VPs.
T: 83, 85,92, 94, 97, 00 full and Mg., 03 half and full
T V V: 00
T TF: 88, 99, 05
T V: 91 Half and Full, 95, 96, 05
If this is turning into a serious attempt at organising a non-serious Taylor vertical, perhaps the non-serious attempt at organising a serious vertical ought to be split somewhere more appropriate?
On the serious point, is it worth baring in mind that there’s a Vargellas vertical in March and the ‟square” tasting in November, both of which might write-off quite a lot of mature Taylor bottles?
JacobH wrote:If this is turning into a serious attempt at organising a non-serious Taylor vertical, perhaps the non-serious attempt at organising a serious vertical ought to be split somewhere more appropriate?
On the serious point, is it worth baring in mind that there’s a Vargellas vertical in March and the ‟square” tasting in November, both of which might write-off quite a lot of mature Taylor bottles?
This thread moved to Meaningless Drivel. Silliness in this thread thereby encouraged. But in the A Taylor vertical, quite large thread, strongly discouraged.
Excluding unofficial bottlings, I make that 60 bottles!
standard vertical of 35 per day.
