What are you drinking?
- Alex Bridgeman
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What are you drinking?
I realised today that while we have a thread for latest purchase, we have never started a thread for "What are you drinking now?" - until now.
So what's in your glass tonight? Mine currently has in some Dow 1958, from a bottle which was ullaged down to about 50cl but tastes like a pretty decent colheita and is good enough to keep me going through the evening.
So what's in your glass tonight? Mine currently has in some Dow 1958, from a bottle which was ullaged down to about 50cl but tastes like a pretty decent colheita and is good enough to keep me going through the evening.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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that's because we post notes on everything we're drinking making this thread kind of mootAHB wrote:I realised today that while we have a thread for latest purchase, we have never started a thread for "What are you drinking now?" - until now.
So what's in your glass tonight? Mine currently has in some Dow 1958, from a bottle which was ullaged down to about 50cl but tastes like a pretty decent colheita and is good enough to keep me going through the evening.
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- Alex Bridgeman
- Fonseca 1966
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True enough. Perhaps it was because I was drinking something for which I wasn't going to post a note that I thought of this thread. (I thought it would be unfair to post a note on what was clearly a poorly conditioned bottle.)g-man wrote:that's because we post notes on everything we're drinking making this thread kind of moot
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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I don't normally do notes on everything I drink, so a thread like this works great for me.
Now, of course, I just have to pick something to open tonight.
Now, of course, I just have to pick something to open tonight.
Glenn Elliott
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I've just finished a cup of tea - it was excellent. Ty-phoo tea, a classic blend with a high Assam content. Steeped with boiling water for three minutes and a splash of skimmed milk. Drunk from a Denby mug it was full flavoured with a strong malty taste and a healthy tannin structure.
Highly recommended 96/100 or 9/0 on Uncle Tom's scale.
Highly recommended 96/100 or 9/0 on Uncle Tom's scale.
Port is basically a red drink
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I eventually decided to open another bottle of 1994 Delaforce Colheita, bottled in 2002. The first bottle I opened smelled of VA and was quite cloudy, but this one is much better. A very nice bottle for $17.
Glenn Elliott
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too much dry reds .... heh
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- Alex Bridgeman
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Re: What are you drinking?
Perhaps you drank this too young. From the tannic structure and malty taste I would expect this to be much better in 10 years time and possibly with the ingredients to continue to improve perhaps even for 20 years. One to drink on your 60th birthday, I suggest.KillerB wrote:I've just finished a cup of tea - it was excellent. Ty-phoo tea, a classic blend with a high Assam content. Steeped with boiling water for three minutes and a splash of skimmed milk. Drunk from a Denby mug it was full flavoured with a strong malty taste and a healthy tannin structure.
Highly recommended 96/100 or 9/0 on Uncle Tom's scale.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Highly recommended 96/100 or 9/0 on Uncle Tom's scale.
I've just had a skinful of beer on an empty stomach. I am now going to cook for myself. I must remember to NOT, under any circumstances, sit down or put myself in any other position whereby I might fall asleep - before turning off the stove..
As for drinking, well, I picked up a couple of house clearance lots for peanuts at an auction yesterday. There's an 'also ran' bottle of '57 claret in there - it's probably rubbish, but there's only one way to find out - and hey! - I've got a Morgan '87 LBV - now there's a rarity - might save that for another day..
Tom
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly - W.S. Churchill
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At the time this thread was created I was drinking Vesuvio 1996 with my brother-in-law to celebrate our first Munro of the year.
Tonight I am drinking Stella Artois 4% sitting beside a log fire on my patio
Tonight I am drinking Stella Artois 4% sitting beside a log fire on my patio
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
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By that time it may have gone coldAHB wrote:Perhaps you drank this too young. From the tannic structure and malty taste I would expect this to be much better in 10 years time and possibly with the ingredients to continue to improve perhaps even for 20 years. One to drink on your 60th birthday, I suggest.KillerB wrote:I've just finished a cup of tea - it was excellent. Ty-phoo tea, a classic blend with a high Assam content. Steeped with boiling water for three minutes and a splash of skimmed milk. Drunk from a Denby mug it was full flavoured with a strong malty taste and a healthy tannin structure.
Highly recommended 96/100 or 9/0 on Uncle Tom's scale.
Port is basically a red drink
- Alex Bridgeman
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Re: What are you drinking?
I opened a bottle of Ferreira 1963 last night; again an ullaged bottle. This one was a little below low shoulder. Because of the poor condition of the bottle, I won't post a note on it in the TN section.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Surprising how often ullaged leaky bottles turn out to be in great form though - that SW47 that went down so well last xmas had a low shoulder level and turned out to be a physically cracked bottle!Because of the poor condition of the bottle, I won't post a note on it in the TN section.
Tom
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly - W.S. Churchill
- Alex Bridgeman
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My Ferreria '63 is quite pleasant and I'm certainly enjoying drinking it, but I don't want to post a tasting note as my bottle may not be representative of the overall enjoyment the wine can offer. However, if people generally want me to post these notes with a caveat that the bottle was badly ullaged, then I will do so.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
- KillerB
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Yes pleaseAHB wrote:My Ferreria '63 is quite pleasant and I'm certainly enjoying drinking it, but I don't want to post a tasting note as my bottle may not be representative of the overall enjoyment the wine can offer. However, if people generally want me to post these notes with a caveat that the bottle was badly ullaged, then I will do so.
Port is basically a red drink
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I just opened a Kopke 40-yr old, and will be opening a 1963 Romariz Colheita tonight.
Glenn Elliott
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double fisting huh..Glenn E. wrote:I just opened a Kopke 40-yr old, and will be opening a 1963 Romariz Colheita tonight.
fiesta fiesta,, cinco de mayo celebration? =)
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I wish... no, as it turns out it was a pre-emptive wake. I just finished the first glass and was called by my boss so that he could tell me I was being laid off.
Guess that's going to cut into my Port purchasing for a while. At least I have a decent cellar to keep me going in the mean time, though!
Guess that's going to cut into my Port purchasing for a while. At least I have a decent cellar to keep me going in the mean time, though!
Glenn Elliott
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Sorry to hear =( ...
I too an unemployed.
.. oh I just noticed, when did i move onto morgan 91?
I too an unemployed.
.. oh I just noticed, when did i move onto morgan 91?
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Presumably when you became unemployed.g-man wrote:I too an unemployed.
.. oh I just noticed, when did i move onto morgan 91?
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Sorry to hear that news. Not good. Was it a great surprise? (Not wishing to comment on a public bulletin board would be understandable, and perhaps even recommended.)Glenn E. wrote:Guess that's going to cut into my Port purchasing for a while.
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It was a surprise in that I wasn't expecting it to happen today, but it wasn't a surprise in the sense that I could see that my group need reorganization. Given the larger structure of the company, the way that we were doing things just wasn't going to survive forever. It was known to be something of an experiment by the company, and sometimes experiments fail.jdaw1 wrote:Sorry to hear that news. Not good. Was it a great surprise? (Not wishing to comment on a public bulletin board would be understandable, and perhaps even recommended.)Glenn E. wrote:Guess that's going to cut into my Port purchasing for a while.
So it sucks and it wasn't expected, but it also wasn't entirely unexpected.
Glenn Elliott
- Alex Bridgeman
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Sorry to hear the news guys, there's a lot of it about at the moment. Maybe I'm a hopeless optimist, but I do see our business picking up slightly in some areas in the UK so things may be starting to bottom out. I hope so.g-man wrote:Sorry to hear =( ...
I too an unemployed.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.