May 5, 6 or 7

[Alex Bridgeman]

Anyone in London on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday night next week and fancy getting together for a drink?

[Chris Doty]

5th or 6th would work for me.

[angeleyes]

Thursday 6th is a possibility for me.

[DRT]

I have no plans to be in London next week

[WS1]

potentially; need to check my schedule.

regards

WS1

[benread]

I already have a date to drink Graham 1966, Graham 1970 and Sandeman 1970 in Hove on election night! Sorry.

[angeleyes]

Perhaps, then, a possible General Election theme (ie a Port from an election year)
Overwhelming (97), Unlikely (92), Not for turning (83), Decimal (70) etc

[WS1]

Hi there,

have also already booked something I cannot get out. Sorry I have to miss this

regards

WS1

[Alex Bridgeman]

I declare that 3 of us (Mark, Chris and me) to be a sufficient number to make an offline.

Any preference as to venue? Crusting Pipe at 6:30pm? Blind bottles or declared bottles with bottles to be of vintage port from the year when there was a general election in the UK?

[angeleyes]

I declare that 3 of us (Mark, Chris and me) to be a sufficient number to make an offline.

Any preference as to venue? Crusting Pipe at 6:30pm? Blind bottles or declared bottles with bottles to be of vintage port from the year when there was a general election in the UK?

If Crusting Pipe is most convenient then I will second that. UKGE theme sounds good to me; I'm told there are some good ports vintaged in General Election years that weren't General Declarations; and if it's blind as then I might have half a chance of guessing the year!

[jdaw1]

If placemats are needed, do request with the usual details.

[g-man]

how bout a quick flight over to dublin

[Alex Bridgeman]

Placemats would be most welcome. Thank you.

Attendees will be Mark, Chris Doty and me. Venue will be The Crusting Pipe at 6:30pm on Thursday May 6. Each person attending will bring a bottle of vintage port (which also permits single quinta and second label vintage ports) which will be presented blind (should we colour code them red, blue and gold?) and not identified until the following day.

Is there any further information needed for the tasting mats?

For convenience and courtesy of Wikipedia, I include a list of recent General Election years.

1801 co-option · 1802 · 1806 · 1807 · 1812 · 1818 · 1820 · 1826 · 1830 · 1831 · 1832 · 1835 · 1837 · 1841 · 1847 · 1852 · 1857 · 1859 · 1865 · 1868 · 1874 · 1880 · 1885 · 1886 · 1892 · 1895 · 1900 · 1906 · 1910 (Jan) · 1910 (Dec) · 1918 · 1922 · 1923 · 1924 · 1929 · 1931 · 1935 · 1945 · 1950 · 1951 · 1955 · 1959 · 1964 · 1966 · 1970 · 1974 (Feb) · 1974 (Oct) · 1979 · 1983 · 1987 · 1992 · 1997 · 2001 · 2005 · 2010

[Alex Bridgeman]

how bout a quick flight over to dublin

If you can make a quick flight to London, I'll spring you a bottle! It's only an hour's flight and I used to be in the office before 9am when I was doing the trip.

[jdaw1]

The first, and hence most recent draft of the placemats.

[Glenn E.]

how bout a quick flight over to dublin

If you can make a quick flight to London, I'll spring you a bottle! It's only an hour's flight and I used to be in the office before 9am when I was doing the trip.

Ryan Air, Jeff. Don't bring anything with you - no carry on, no briefcase, no ipod. Nothing. Round trip should cost about $50.

You'll probably spend more getting into London by train and then to the Crusting Pipe by taxi than you will getting from Dublin to Heathrow and back.

[DRT]

how bout a quick flight over to dublin

If you can make a quick flight to London, I'll spring you a bottle! It's only an hour's flight and I used to be in the office before 9am when I was doing the trip.

Ryan Air, Jeff. Don't bring anything with you - no carry on, no briefcase, no ipod. Nothing. Round trip should cost about $50.

You'll probably spend more getting into London by train and then to the Crusting Pipe by taxi than you will getting from Dublin to Heathrow and back.

The Picadilly Line goes straight from Heathrow to Covent Garden in less than an hour for about the cost of a glass of port!

Unfortunately, Ryanair doesn't fly to Heathrow so you would have to take a train from Gatwick, Stansted or Luton and then the Tube to Covent Garden. Or you could fly with http://www.aerlingus.com to Heathrow but the flights would be two to three times as expensive as Ryanair. The cheapest return flight from Dublin to London on 6th and 7th May is currently 137 Euro including tax. With two passangers and the cost of a hotel in London this would be a very expensive "bring-a-bottle" off-line. Close to $800 rather than the $50 mentioned by Glenn

[Alex Bridgeman]

Of course, this all assumes that Irish airspace is open...

Seriously, if you do decide to take the $50 Ryanair flight there are very good train services from Gatwick, Stansted and Luton airports costing in the order of $30 each way. Once in London the tube will cost about $6 each way.

If you need to stay overnight in London then PM or email me.

[DRT]

Seriously, if you do decide to take the $50 Ryanair flight there are very good train services from Gatwick, Stansted and Luton airports costing in the order of $30 each way.

The cheapest return flight from Dublin to London on 6th and 7th May is currently 137 Euro including tax.

I'm not sure which Ryanair AHB is looking at but the one that goes from Dublin to London currently costs between 137 and 150 Euro depending on which airport you fly to on tose dates. The Aer Lingus alternative is currently 300-400 Euro!

[uncle tom]

1801 co-option · 1802 · 1806 · 1807 · 1812 · 1818 · 1820 · 1826 · 1830 · 1831 · 1832 · 1835 · 1837 · 1841 · 1847 · 1852 · 1857 · 1859 · 1865 · 1868 · 1874 · 1880 · 1885 · 1886 · 1892 · 1895 · 1900 · 1906 · 1910 (Jan) · 1910 (Dec) · 1918 · 1922 · 1923 · 1924 · 1929 · 1931 · 1935 · 1945 · 1950 · 1951 · 1955 · 1959 · 1964 · 1966 · 1970 · 1974 (Feb) · 1974 (Oct) · 1979 · 1983 · 1987 · 1992 · 1997 · 2001 · 2005 · 2010

A surprising correlation between election years and good vintages in the last hundred years - I'm not sure about attending this bash, but if I do, I have 20 of these years to choose from..

Tom

[DRT]

Oh dear, that means I can't bring along my Quinta do Roriz 1815

[jdaw1]

I have no plans to be in London next week

Oh dear, that means I can't bring along my Quinta do Roriz 1815

Bottled 1818? But you aren’t in London.

[Chris Doty]

Sounds good. Would it be possible to kick the start time back to 7pm? My boss suffers from separation anxiety.

[jdaw1]

Updated: most recent draft of the placemats.

• +Tom (so now Alex, Chris, Mark, Tom, spare).

[Alex Bridgeman]

Sounds good. Would it be possible to kick the start time back to 7pm? My boss suffers from separation anxiety.

7pm is fine. Tell me what you want to eat and it can be waiting for you when you arrive.

[uncle tom]

I'll pass on this one thanks..

Tom

[jdaw1]

Updated: most recent draft of the placemats.

• +Tom (so now Alex, Chris, Mark, Tom, spare).

• ”“Tom (so now Alex, Chris, Mark, spare; ports 1 2 3).

[Alex Bridgeman]

Did we once have a layout for 3 bottles that held glass circles and tasting notes on the same landscape sheet of A4? If this works, please could we do the same for tomorrow night? Thanks.

[jdaw1]

Updated: most recent draft of the placemats.

• /SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes true def
• Chris left-handed.

[Chris Doty]

Thanks Julian, looks lovely.

[angeleyes]

Yes, thanks Julian.

Do these need printing or has that been sorted out already?

[jdaw1]

Do these need printing or has that been sorted out already?

I’m not going; and nobody else has yet undertaken to print them.

[angeleyes]

Do these need printing or has that been sorted out already?

I’m not going; and nobody else has yet undertaken to print them.

I have now printed them.

[Chris Doty]

Excellent work!

Just checked in on my decanter....smells delicious!

[jdaw1]

Port from General Election years, in The Crusting Pipe, on the occasion of the May 2010 general election.

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Placemats;
• 1970 Warre;
• 1935 Taylor;
• 1983 Dow;
• 1997 Croft Roeda.

[g-man]

very sad to not have met up with you guysm, but I was very lucky to have caught a plane back to the states before volcano faweofiqicffecv erupted again.

[KillerB]

very sad to not have met up with you guysm, but I was very lucky to have caught a plane back to the states before volcano faweofiqicffecv erupted again.

Were you in town? I had no idea, I would have travelled down.

[Alex Bridgeman]

very sad to not have met up with you guysm, but I was very lucky to have caught a plane back to the states before volcano faweofiqicffecv erupted again.

Were you in town? I had no idea, I would have travelled down.

We were, you would have, we would have been 5.

Next time.

[g-man]

very sad to not have met up with you guysm, but I was very lucky to have caught a plane back to the states before volcano faweofiqicffecv erupted again.

Were you in town? I had no idea, I would have travelled down.

was in ireland, but was planning a quick trip over to london to meet up with friends i haven't seen in a while, canceled cuz of the volcano as I wanted to swing back to NY before I get stranded in ireland.