One quiz at a time

Post by **DRT** » 09:09 Wed 09 Sep 2009

13.4 is as close as it is possible to be without being correct.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 10:36 Wed 09 Sep 2009

13.5 - I deserve this for my initial guess

Post by **jdaw1** » 11:40 Wed 09 Sep 2009

13.3?

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 12:34 Wed 09 Sep 2009

Well it must be one of them

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 12:36 Wed 09 Sep 2009

14.3 - which is close to 13.4 in a different sense than my previous two learned colleagues

Post by **DRT** » 14:18 Wed 09 Sep 2009

jdaw1 wrote:13.3?

Correct - bad luck KillerB - JDAW's up...

Post by **jdaw1** » 16:09 Wed 09 Sep 2009

Derek arrives chez moi on Friday night. Two bottles of port will have been decanted, and served Ã l'aveugle, on a placemat. Name the two houses.

The bottles will be decanted Friday early afternoon, and two TN threads (to which this thread will link) will report on my vigorous and frequent quality control. These will be the first clues how useful I don’t yet know. But I shall not mark guesses, or give other clues as to the answer, until Derek has tasted. (However, I might give answers to questions that Derek asks neither more nor less than I would if he were asking just before tasting.)

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 16:51 Wed 09 Sep 2009

DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:13.3?
Correct - bad luck KillerB - JDAW's up...

You drive 41,400 miles per year??? Zowie, that's a lot even for an American!

jdaw1 wrote:Derek arrives chez moi on Friday night. Two bottles of port will have been decanted, and served Ã l'aveugle, on a placemat. Name the two houses.

Graham and Warre.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 17:19 Wed 09 Sep 2009

Fonseca and Taylor

Post by **DRT** » 20:42 Wed 09 Sep 2009

Glenn E. wrote: You drive 41,400 miles per year??? Zowie, that's a lot even for an American!

I drive less now than I did a few years ago. At one time I was doing 55,000 per year

Graham and Taylor

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:18 Wed 09 Sep 2009

Cockburn and Croft.

Post by **DRT** » 21:24 Wed 09 Sep 2009

Croft and Taylor?

Are both from British houses?

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:27 Wed 09 Sep 2009

Gould Campbell and Smith Woodhouse?

Post by **DRT** » 21:41 Wed 09 Sep 2009

Martinez and Dow?

Do the houses belong to a group or are they independant?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:48 Wed 09 Sep 2009

To the best of my imperfect knowledge, not a group: independent.

DRT wrote:Are both from British houses?

No.

Post by **DRT** » 22:56 Wed 09 Sep 2009

How many of them have the word Quinta in the name of the brand?

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 00:25 Thu 10 Sep 2009

Ferreira and Churchill?

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:00 Thu 10 Sep 2009

DRT wrote:How many of them have the word Quinta in the name of the brand?

Err, two. One of which I have never tasted before, and the other, not much.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:59 Thu 10 Sep 2009

Vesuvio and Sibio

Post by **DRT** » 20:31 Thu 10 Sep 2009

Vesuvio and Crasto?

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:05 Thu 10 Sep 2009

jdaw1 wrote:One of which I have never tasted before, and the other, not much.

DRT wrote:Vesuvio and Crasto?

?

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:08 Thu 10 Sep 2009

jdaw1 wrote:One of which I have never tasted before, and the other, not much.

AHB wrote:Vesuvio and Sibio

? and ?.

Post by **DRT** » 23:37 Thu 10 Sep 2009

You need to define what yuou mean by "not much". I like to think that I have had "not much Noval Nacional" - others may think I have had more than my fair allocation.

Post by **DRT** » 06:11 Fri 11 Sep 2009

Quinta da Corte & Quinta do Passadouro?

Post by **jdaw1** » 11:51 Fri 11 Sep 2009

For more clues subscribe to the tasting note ‘Younger’.

Post by **jdaw1** » 12:16 Fri 11 Sep 2009

For more clues subscribe to the tasting note ‘Older’.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 16:16 Fri 11 Sep 2009

Q. d. Roeda and Q. SÃ£o Luiz ?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 19:37 Fri 11 Sep 2009

Carvalhas and ... celery? Familar note...

...(comes back after research) Roeda

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:52 Fri 11 Sep 2009

So far nobody has either house, the older of which is indeed owned by a group, but not one of the big two.

Post by **jdaw1** » 07:16 Sat 12 Sep 2009

Really big clues have been posted elsewhere. It is not trivially easy.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 08:45 Sat 12 Sep 2009

But since I was the last to guess, I am not allowed to offer the next guess!

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 12:05 Sat 12 Sep 2009

OK, let's go for the trivially easy:

Quinta do Vale Dona Maria

Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo

Just in case

Post by **jdaw1** » 12:40 Sat 12 Sep 2009

Well guessed! ARK is up.

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 15:39 Sat 12 Sep 2009

I have to go and count. How many stemmed glasses do I have? This includes all wine, Port, Brandy, stemmed beer etc. glasses, but obviously no tumblers

RonnieRoots · Post by **RonnieRoots** » 17:36 Sat 12 Sep 2009

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 20:16 Sat 12 Sep 2009

RonnieRoots wrote:58

Higher

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 22:07 Sat 12 Sep 2009

RonnieRoots · Post by **RonnieRoots** » 05:00 Sun 13 Sep 2009

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 05:03 Sun 13 Sep 2009

i have 62, but that doesn't include the 36 pack of tasters...

i'd guess Killerb has the same. 98

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 05:28 Sun 13 Sep 2009

Higher than 98 lower than 127

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 08:15 Sun 13 Sep 2009

RonnieRoots · Post by **RonnieRoots** » 08:32 Sun 13 Sep 2009

Post by **DRT** » 10:21 Sun 13 Sep 2009

Have you included the 6 port glasses that are in my house?

99?

Post by **jdaw1** » 12:34 Sun 13 Sep 2009

(An aside abut an earlier question. SCP-DFF is now SCP-DFF.)

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 14:47 Sun 13 Sep 2009

KillerB · Post by **KillerB** » 18:12 Sun 13 Sep 2009

Higher than 108 lower than 115

RonnieRoots · Post by **RonnieRoots** » 19:32 Sun 13 Sep 2009

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 21:22 Sun 13 Sep 2009

g-man · Post by **g-man** » 21:37 Sun 13 Sep 2009