One quiz at a time

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 04:44 Mon 06 Feb 2012

Yes, that is a rather good clue.

Ruby Port?

RAYC · Post by **RAYC** » 07:42 Mon 06 Feb 2012

Glenn E. wrote:Yes, that is a rather good clue.

Ruby Port?

The third category: for sure.

The first and second categories: not so far as I am aware from comprehensive google searches (and I apologise in advance for a rubbish quiz if they are...)

RAYC · Post by **RAYC** » 01:24 Tue 07 Feb 2012

RAYC wrote:
RAYC wrote:I have a true-to-theme prize for anyone who can tell me the connection between the following words/phrases: definitive; first option; fusion; tribute

RAYC wrote:Clue 1: a related category of words/phrases includes: fourth quarter, blend NÂº 4
Clue 2: a separate related category of words/phrases includes: midnight, icon, renown, nirvana

Clue 3: think legal

Post by **PhilW** » 08:48 Tue 07 Feb 2012

After your second clue, I was thinking alnong the lines of whisky or tabacco/cigars or cigar menu - but figured you would have replied "close but no cigar" if that had been the answer; I thought about possible law-related options but came up blank.
The only other thought I had was in relation to "other substances" which could be smoked/eaten which might induce "nirvana"... such as bacon, egg and black pudding baps at two in the morning, of course

RAYC · Post by **RAYC** » 10:45 Tue 07 Feb 2012

A quick game is a good game - answer posted tonight.

Phil - Nirvana, Midnight, Icon Reserve and Renown are (or were) all brands of ruby port released by Dow.

RAYC · Post by **RAYC** » 00:44 Wed 08 Feb 2012

RAYC wrote: Nirvana, Midnight, Icon Reserve and Renown are (or were) all brands of ruby port released by Dow.

Whereas Dow's Definitive, Dow's First Option, Dow's Fusion and Tribute Port are all EU trademarks registered* in the "alcoholic drinks" category by what i assume is the Dow holding company, but which do not seem to have made it to "release". Could these have been putative Ruby brand names?

In the second category, Fourth Quarter is a trademark registered by what i assume is the Warre holding company, and Graham's Blend NÂº 4 and Blend NÂº 4 were both registered (at about the same time as Natura...) by what i assume is the Graham holding company, but again which do not seem to have been released (...yet, at least).

* apart from Tribute Port, which was rejected

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:22 Fri 27 Sep 2013

I am drinking two excellent ports, the same in every way except that the harvests were one year apart. What am I drinking?

For new boys, the game:

jdaw1 wrote:{If you get it right, you then have to pose an equally useless but guessable question. If you guess wrong, you can’t guess again until somebody else has had a guess, or until a new question is posed (which would happen because a previous guess is marked ‘correct’).}

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:15 Fri 27 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:I am drinking two excellent ports, the same in every way except that the harvests were one year apart. What am I drinking?

For new boys, the game:
jdaw1 wrote:{If you get it right, you then have to pose an equally useless but guessable question. If you guess wrong, you can’t guess again until somebody else has had a guess, or until a new question is posed (which would happen because a previous guess is marked ‘correct’).}

Taylor Vargellas? I'll go with 67/68.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:38 Fri 27 Sep 2013

Glenn E. wrote:Taylor Vargellas? I'll go with 67/68.

Completely wrong.

I’ve also added a third to the evening, also excellent, though needing to breathe a little more. But that one is not part of the question.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:57 Fri 27 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
Glenn E. wrote:Taylor Vargellas? I'll go with 67/68.
Completely wrong.

I have an even better guess, but sadly a) didn't think of it before posting the above, and b) must now wait until someone else guesses.

/sigh

Post by **DRT** » 22:07 Fri 27 Sep 2013

A 1991 and a 1992?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:14 Fri 27 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:A 1991 and a 1992?

An insufficient guess, but no matter, as wrong.

As a clue, Graham and Graham Q. d. Malvedos would not satisfy

jdaw1 wrote:the same in every way except that the harvests were one year apart.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:14 Fri 27 Sep 2013

Just so Glenn can guess again, I'm presuming that this is a SQVP, and perhaps a (brace of) Malvedos. This is wrong. Now it's someone else's turn.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:15 Fri 27 Sep 2013

I'm drinking a Quinta de la Rosa 11 half. TN will follow. It's good.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:16 Fri 27 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:Just so Glenn can guess again, I'm presuming that this is a SQVP, and perhaps a (brace of) Malvedos. This is wrong.

Wrong, and correct.

And anyway, GEE could have guessed again following DRT’s guess. So all-round hopeless.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:17 Fri 27 Sep 2013

I can't guess again until someone else does. Of course I was really only guessing so that Derek could guess again. Go on, put us out of our misery.

Post by **DRT** » 22:18 Fri 27 Sep 2013

Warre LBV 1981 and 1982?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:20 Fri 27 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:Warre LBV 1981 and 1982?

And very good they are too.

My wife’s book club is meeting chez moi. It seemed a sensible thing to provide, as host. Except that her friends correctly identified what they brought as less worthy of drinking (blunt comment suppressed), so made progress through the ’81 and ’82 more hastily than expected. An ’84 was then opened.

DRT’s question, please.

Post by **DRT** » 22:23 Fri 27 Sep 2013

May I basque in the glory for a while before thinking of a question?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:31 Fri 27 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:May I basque in the glory for a while before thinking of a question?

You know where you may bask in the glory of it.

Post by **DRT** » 13:51 Sat 28 Sep 2013

Which vintage is the Vintage Port that I have owned for the longest time that is still in my cellar?

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:13 Sat 28 Sep 2013

A 1963?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:22 Sat 28 Sep 2013

Is it a 1955?

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:23 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1945?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:33 Sat 28 Sep 2013

No, 1942..

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:36 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1960?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:40 Sat 28 Sep 2013

Perhaps this is a trick question. Maybe it's a 1972.

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:43 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1985?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:46 Sat 28 Sep 2013

How long, on average, can a bottle of VP survive in DRT's cellar? It could be a 2003.

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:47 Sat 28 Sep 2013

In storage, ages. On site, sometimes over a week.

1970?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:50 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1999?

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:50 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1983?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:53 Sat 28 Sep 2013

I really think DRT should answer.

Is it a 1979 Malvedos?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:00 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1980?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:08 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1977?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:11 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1966?

Maybe a clue would help.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:13 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1967?

I agree.

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:14 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1992?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:17 Sat 28 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:1992?

Surely not.

1991.

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:18 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1975, heaven have mercy on his soul? Maybe God created man in his own image, but believers and non-believers can surely agree that he did not create the 1975 vintage whilst gazing in a mirror. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, completely rubbish declaration to, well, you can guess.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:20 Sat 28 Sep 2013

No, it's more likely to be 1950.

(thinks.. have we covered every likely vintage yet?)

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:21 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1997, about which Wikipedia reports that ‟Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 for the UK with "Love Shine a Light", the most successful Eurovision entry ever.”

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:25 Sat 28 Sep 2013

2001: the title of one of the most boring films ever made.

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:26 Sat 28 Sep 2013

2000, the last year of the second millennium.

That film was made before the moon landings, and yet it well showed many of the features of space travel. I liked the film.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:33 Sat 28 Sep 2013

I preferred Solaris, but we've already had 1972. Perhaps my view of 2001 is coloured by not having watched it again since Christmas 199?, when it was on TV while I was in New York. An ad break every 15 minutes did nothing for Kubrick's contemplative pacing.

1934?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:33 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1993?

DRT: we need a clue. Or, even better, to be told that the answer has been guessed.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:39 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1998. We're running out of vintages.

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:39 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1994, the year in which the bond market crashed after Alan Greenspan raised the Fed Funds rate from 3% to 6% in seven steps.

Plenty more to go.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:42 Sat 28 Sep 2013

Is it a 95 Churchill Agua Alta?

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:42 Sat 28 Sep 2013

1962, perhaps Nacional?