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14.2

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

13.5 - I deserve this for my initial guess

13.3?

Well it must be one of them

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

jdaw1 wrote:13.3?

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

Derek arrives chez moi on Friday night. Two bottles of port will have been decanted, and served à 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.)

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 à l'aveugle, on a placemat. Name the two houses.

Graham and Warre.

Fonseca and Taylor

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

Cockburn and Croft.

Croft and Taylor?

Are both from British houses?

Gould Campbell and Smith Woodhouse?

Martinez and Dow?

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

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

DRT wrote:Are both from British houses?

No.

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

Ferreira and Churchill?

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.

Vesuvio and Sibio

Vesuvio and Crasto?

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

DRT wrote:Vesuvio and Crasto?

?

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

AHB wrote:Vesuvio and Sibio

? and ?.

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.

Quinta da Corte & Quinta do Passadouro?

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

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

Q. d. Roeda and Q. São Luiz ?

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

...(comes back after research) Roeda

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

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

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

OK, let's go for the trivially easy:

Quinta do Vale Dona Maria

Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo

Just in case

Well guessed! ARK is up.

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

58

RonnieRoots wrote:58

Higher

80?

127

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

i'd guess Killerb has the same. 98

Higher than 98 lower than 127

115

108

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

99?

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

102

Higher than 108 lower than 115

112

109

110