Hi there,
I am also interested in this event, however I do not own a lot of Taylors Port (55 and 03, VV 00 and 04, Vargellas 91 and TF 99). Please count me in if still possible. Overall I would like also to warn in advance that this maybe stretching it. Despite I accept the heavy disagreement of DRT and JDAW1 in advance in probably claiming pints of beer would help to refreshen the reflexes in case of tiredness of the palate and the organic bit called body
I would be still worried about the magnitude
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Despite it is not strictly port related the biggest tasting I went in my life was a 100 bts of Chateauneuf du Pape tasting before 1979 (inclusive). We started with the oldest wines up to 1950 and then had as a second flight wines from 1950 onwards to the 1970s. All wines of the supposed star vinatge 1978 were kept in a separate flight. The remaining vintages were split accordingly into flights. The tasting was split over two weekends starting Friday evening with Saturday afternoon and evening session. Overall it became a marathon after the organiser thought it also would be a good idea to add another 136 wines ( out of 2005, 2006 and 2007) in a walk through tasting on one of the sunday's afternoon to taste the difference in the making of the young wines vs the "oldies".
To try ~100 Ports in probably 6 flights (if I understood correctly) would mean to start the tasting on friday afternoon and be finished by sunday late night. May I suggest instead to limit the bts to a huge number (tasting still very large) but being a more realistic number and stop e.g. at the 1980 vintage? This would also nicly splitting the younger Ports from the old ones.
Please see this not as someone trying to spoil an excellent idea. See it rather as the contribution of someone who coorganised the 1970 vertical (35 Ports) and experienced the tiredness of going through hundreds of wines. Ports will be even harder. Despite its appeal
I feel we should not overdo it.
Also an additional walk through tasting of young vintage ports (maybe 2008s) after the official tasting following the idea of my friend with the Chateauneufs I would strongly reject as being too self destructive.
regards
WS1