A drink off the list at the Boot & Flogger, Dec 16

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:07 Thu 06 Nov 2014

In [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&p=83745#p83744]a thread[/url] about testing [url=http://www.davy.co.uk/bootandflogger]the Boot & Flogger[/url] as a new venue for tastings, I wrote:December is unfortunately out altogether for the Boot & Flogger, so we are looking at January at the earliest. At this point I politely step aside and hand on the laurel crown to someone else, in the hope that I'm still able to make it on the date that is decided. Tom was very helpful and I think they'd like our business but he just didn't have a space in December.

On that note, does anyone want to share a bottle of Churchill 94 / Offley 70 on either of the dates mentioned (Monday 15 / Tuesday 16 Dec) ? If we can't have a room to ourselves we can at least meet for a civilised drink.

In attendance:
1. DJ
2. RAB
3. JDAW
4. DRT
5. CPR
6. MPM

Review thread

The ports:
Offley 1977 (B&F)
Noval 1966 (B&F)
Dow 1970 (DRT)
Churchill 1994 (B&F)
Warre 1970 (B&F)

Post by **flash_uk** » 13:16 Thu 06 Nov 2014

I'd be up for that. 15th or 16th look OK right now.

CPR 1 · Post by **CPR 1** » 14:20 Thu 06 Nov 2014

Sounds good 16th is better for me

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:53 Thu 06 Nov 2014

The Supreme Commander Port-Drinking Forces Streatham has graciously allowed me to accept your invitation, for either day.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 23:00 Thu 06 Nov 2014

Sadly not me. I'm in London overnight on the 17th and in Saffron Walden on the 18th so can't slide an extra night in the same week.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:01 Thu 06 Nov 2014

I think we're edging towards the 16th then. Shame you can't join us Alex, but will see you in Essex.

Derek?

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:08 Thu 06 Nov 2014

djewesbury wrote:Derek?

Only if ≤ 16st 5 lb.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:10 Thu 06 Nov 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Derek?
Only if ≤ 16st 5 lb.

Post by **DRT** » 20:56 Fri 07 Nov 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Derek?
Only if ≤ 16st 5 lb.

It's a deal.

A bottle of 1970 VP will attend this tasting. If I qualify for attendance I will drink it with you. If I don't, you will all drink it without me.

idj123 · Post by **idj123** » 21:50 Fri 07 Nov 2014

This is beginning to sound interesting-I'll see if I can wangle a pass!

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:26 Fri 07 Nov 2014

DRT wrote:A bottle of 1970 VP will attend this tasting. If I qualify for attendance I will drink it with you. If I don't, you will all drink it without me.

Derek: this is not the agreed punishment. It is an improvement on the agreed punishment, so I agree to it.

Tasting Master: is a brought bottle allowed in an “off the list” tasting?

Tasting Master: if a date has been decided, please amend thread title.

All: in his previous dieting effort, DRT failed one weigh-in. The punishment was set to be a good ≤1970 Port from his cellar, to be drunk by the team, but without Derek.

All: will placemats be needed?

All: currently we have no table and six people (DJ, MPM, CPR, JDAW, DRT, IDJ). Damn the torpedoes?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:13 Sat 08 Nov 2014

jdaw1 wrote:Tasting Master: is a brought bottle allowed in an “off the list” tasting?

I don't know about this one. Tricky question. Please give me your opinions. I am in two minds, viz:
(1) I would like to drink it, but
(2) I don't think it makes a good impression on persons who may become our new hosts if we attempt to bring our own without a prior arrangement.

The B&F has the usual Davy's 1970s available of course. Might that be a compromise?

jdaw1 wrote:Tasting Master: if a date has been decided, please amend thread title.

Done.

jdaw1 wrote:All: will placemats be needed?

I think we shall have to manage without; or perhaps an A5?

jdaw1 wrote:All: currently we have no table and six people (DJ, MPM, CPR, JDAW, DRT, IDJ). Damn the torpedoes?

7 actually - RAB will be joining us. I suggest we get there as early as we can and hog two tables.

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:18 Sat 08 Nov 2014

djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:Tasting Master: is a brought bottle allowed in an “off the list” tasting?
I don't know about this one. Tricky question. Please give me your opinions. I am in two minds, viz:
(1) I would like to drink it, but
(2) I don't think it makes a good impression on persons who may become our new hosts if we attempt to bring our own without a prior arrangement.

Quite the purpose of my question.

djewesbury wrote:The B&F has the usual Davy's 1970s available of course. Might that be a compromise?

What is Davy’s 1970?

djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:All: will placemats be needed?
I think we shall have to manage without; or perhaps an A5?

Wilco.

djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:All: currently we have no table and six people (DJ, MPM, CPR, JDAW, DRT, IDJ). Damn the torpedoes?
7 actually - RAB will be joining us. I suggest we get there as early as we can and hog two tables.

Two tables that are already reserved? I asked because I feared the torpedoes.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:21 Sat 08 Nov 2014

By Davy's 1970s (pl.) I mean the 1970s that are on their fine wine list. Offley and Warre?

What are the tables in the public area like? Are we unlikely to be able to bag two if we're there early? Do you think the Christmas crowds will have everything booked?

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:29 Sat 08 Nov 2014

djewesbury wrote:Do you think the Christmas crowds will have everything booked?

Yes.

djewesbury wrote:By Davy's 1970s (pl.) I mean the 1970s that are on their fine wine list. Offley and Warre?

I shared a lunchtime bottle of the W70, at the B&F, with a journalist from the FT. Lovely. (W70, rather than the male journo.)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:29 Sat 08 Nov 2014

Your solution?

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:31 Sat 08 Nov 2014

djewesbury wrote:Your solution?

∅.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:31 Sat 08 Nov 2014

Someone please interpret.

Average?

Diameter?

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:33 Sat 08 Nov 2014

∅ = Empty set.

If we were two or three, we might have squeezed in. But based on your report of your conversation with management, seven won’t work. If I have misunderstood your report of your conversation, say so.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:36 Sat 08 Nov 2014

I see. Then I suggest we just turn up in twos and threes and see what we can manage. At the very worst we can decamp to the George and drink beer.

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:38 Sat 08 Nov 2014

djewesbury wrote:At the very worst we can decamp to the George and drink beer.

An excellent back-up plan.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 00:42 Sat 08 Nov 2014

Will glasses not be a problem for you? Or are you relying on B&F having a suffiency?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:43 Sat 08 Nov 2014

I am presuming that if we buy bottles from them they will agree to let us put the contents in glasses. Remember, we aren't bringing anything.

Post by **flash_uk** » 10:28 Sat 08 Nov 2014

djewesbury wrote:I see. Then I suggest we just turn up in twos and threes and see what we can manage. At the very worst we can decamp to the George and drink beer.

Why not ask if a table for 4 could be booked, which could serve as the bridgehead. If they are unable to manage that, then I suspect just turning up even in 2s will prove futile.

Post by **jdaw1** » 18:10 Sat 08 Nov 2014

flash_uk wrote:Why not ask if a table for 4 could be booked, which could serve as the bridgehead. If they are unable to manage that, then I suspect just turning up even in 2s will prove futile.

I support this plan.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:40 Sat 08 Nov 2014

Current draft of the paperwork.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 11:57 Sun 09 Nov 2014

I will follow this up in the morning.

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:15 Wed 12 Nov 2014

djewesbury wrote:I will follow this up in the morning.

?

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 08:36 Wed 12 Nov 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:I will follow this up in the morning.
?

He didn't specify which morning. He might have meant the morning of Dec 16.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:49 Wed 12 Nov 2014

I didn't have a chance to follow up earlier and I am now off sick with a migraine. Please feel free to pursue; or I will at a later date.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 15:26 Wed 12 Nov 2014

djewesbury wrote:I didn't have a chance to follow up earlier and I am now off sick with a migraine. Please feel free to pursue; or I will at a later date.

Hopefully not later than December 16.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 15:29 Wed 12 Nov 2014

AHB wrote:
djewesbury wrote:I didn't have a chance to follow up earlier and I am now off sick with a migraine. Please feel free to pursue; or I will at a later date.
Hopefully not later than December 16.

Sooner than that.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:29 Fri 14 Nov 2014

Table for four on the 16th at 6 PM booked

Post by **flash_uk** » 11:37 Fri 14 Nov 2014

djewesbury wrote:Table for four on the 16th at 6 PM booked

Nice work

Post by **jdaw1** » 12:33 Sat 15 Nov 2014

Updated draft of the placemats.

DRT’s punishment bottle (his punishment, our drinking) is to be a Dow 1970.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=83874#p83874]Here[/url] DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Derek?
Only if ≤ 16st 5 lb.
It's a deal.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=84113#p84113]Here[/url] DRT wrote:One drink per pub. Now in The Stag's Head on Dame Lane. Fabulously unmodernised.

DRT will not be attending, it seems.

Post by **jdaw1** » 12:38 Sat 15 Nov 2014

djewesbury wrote:Table for four on the 16th at 6 PM booked

Did you request that O70 and Ch94 be decanted? Did you explain that ‘we’ will be bringing a bottle of D70?

Post by **DRT** » 13:47 Mon 17 Nov 2014

jdaw1 wrote:Updated draft of the placemats.
DRT’s punishment bottle (his punishment, our drinking) is to be a Dow 1970.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=83874#p83874]Here[/url] DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Derek?
Only if ≤ 16st 5 lb.
It's a deal.
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=84113#p84113]Here[/url] DRT wrote:One drink per pub. Now in The Stag's Head on Dame Lane. Fabulously unmodernised.
DRT will not be attending, it seems.

Oh Ye of little faith. I will hopefully exceed your expectations.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:48 Mon 17 Nov 2014

DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:Updated draft of the placemats.
DRT’s punishment bottle (his punishment, our drinking) is to be a Dow 1970.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=83874#p83874]Here[/url] DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Derek?
Only if ≤ 16st 5 lb.
It's a deal.
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=84113#p84113]Here[/url] DRT wrote:One drink per pub. Now in The Stag's Head on Dame Lane. Fabulously unmodernised.
DRT will not be attending, it seems.
Oh Ye of little faith. I will hopefully exceed your expectations.

Exceed the expectations and fall short of the magic number.

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Post by **jdaw1** » 15:34 Mon 17 Nov 2014

DRT wrote:Oh Ye of little faith. I will hopefully exceed your expectations.

Good, but you’ll need to much better than that to be under 16st 5 lb.

In a fit of optimism I’ll add you back to the placemats.

Post by **flash_uk** » 15:48 Mon 17 Nov 2014

jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Table for four on the 16th at 6 PM booked
Did you request that O70 and Ch94 be decanted? Did you explain that ‘we’ will be bringing a bottle of D70?

Presumably now that we have a table booked, and can therefore have something to eat, adding a single bottle with corkage (if requested) can be negotiated on the night?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:26 Mon 17 Nov 2014

flash_uk wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Table for four on the 16th at 6 PM booked
Did you request that O70 and Ch94 be decanted? Did you explain that ‘we’ will be bringing a bottle of D70?
Presumably now that we have a table booked, and can therefore have something to eat, adding a single bottle with corkage (if requested) can be negotiated on the night?

I haven't had a chance to ring back with order details (e.g. the O70 and Ch94) and I presumed that they wouldn't want to open and decant these on the basis of a booking from a customer they've never heard of before. I figured they'd need payment up front for the bottles. I thought that perhaps I might negotiate this in person nearer the time. And while doing that I could also raise the subject of the corkage for the D70.

Post by **jdaw1** » 17:36 Mon 17 Nov 2014

Summary: you have everything under control. Happiness.

Post by **jdaw1** » 11:45 Wed 10 Dec 2014

DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:Derek?
Only if ≤ 16st 5 lb.
It's a deal.

A bottle of 1970 VP will attend this tasting. If I qualify for attendance I will drink it with you. If I don't, you will all drink it without me.

Derek: gracile, or fustilugs? In or out?

Post by **DRT** » 16:08 Wed 10 Dec 2014

Will confirm at the weekend.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:43 Wed 10 Dec 2014

We're making banners Derek. Don't disappoint us.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:15 Sat 13 Dec 2014

It occurs to me that since this is classified under 'informal Christmas drinks', self-certification is sufficient from DRT. Derek, can we trust you to assure us that you will be able to join us?

Post by **DRT** » 22:12 Sat 13 Dec 2014

djewesbury wrote:It occurs to me that since this is classified under 'informal Christmas drinks', self-certification is sufficient from DRT. Derek, can we trust you to assure us that you will be able to join us?

I was planning to bring a note from my Mum.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:43 Sat 13 Dec 2014

Perfect. The forces are assembled, nothing can stop us now.

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:48 Sat 13 Dec 2014

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=55955#p55955]Here[/url], a day before his first TPF tasting, djewesbury wrote:I am quite exhilarated. Is it always this exciting in the quiet hours before a tasting? Was it like this at Scampton before 617 Squadron went out..?

djewesbury wrote:Perfect. The forces are assembled, nothing can stop us now.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:49 Sat 13 Dec 2014

The old excitement never goes away, Ginger.