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Strong preference for 13 January

I also slightly prefer 13th Jan.

If it's a date I can make, I can offer Quinta do Crasto, Quinta do Noval, Petre's Port (from Niepoort - but I'll need some notice to get them out of storage), Quinta do Vesuvio or Warre (4 year bottling).

13th and 20th Jan both work for me.

I have requested the B&F move this date to Tuesday 13 January. I will update the title etc once this is hopefully confirmed.

In the meantime this is an impressive tasting……34 x 1995 ports.

https://www.vintageport.se/GreatTasting ... ?sort=name

Hi all I have now updated the first message in this thread with the new confirmed date of Tuesday 13 January.

To keep things simple please could everyone confirm, re confirm etc and I will update the first message accordingly.

Confirmed for 13th January.

confirmed for the 13th

Confirmed for 13th

I can make 13th January - please could I have one of the currently available slots?

Confirming for 13 Jan - many thanks.

Am ok for 13 January.

With apologies, I am now unlikely to be able to make this date so please move me to reserves.

Sorry to hear that George. I know you bought a bottle for this tasting. If you wanted, I am happy to buy this off of you.

Great Minds Think Alike----Fools Seldom Differ!

This Saturday, November 15th, 8 of us will gather in New Jersey, USA to taste ten 1995 Ports (we have 22 and likely will do the balance at another time). Our line up includes:

Cockburn Quinta dos Canais
Delaforce Quinta Da Corte
Ferreira
Fonseca Guimaraens
Graham's Malvedos
Quinta do Crasto
Quinta do Vesuvio
Smith Woodhouse Madalena
Taylor Quinta de Vargellas
Quinta do Infantado

Plan on serving blind---but all will know the line-up.

I attended a 1995 tasting in 2015---curious to see how ones tasted then stack up (WOTN that time was the Malvedos with Ferreira a close 2nd). On balance this is a very fine year; fortuitous it came on the heels of 1994 as there are some awesome SQVPs here and usually at a very good price.

Thank you, Julian, for doing our placemats.

Big Love wrote: ↑15:38 Tue 11 Nov 2025our placemats

20251115_Blind_1995s.pdf (emphasis: for the November tasting in New Jersey, not for the January event in London).

For the London tasting there is now a draft of the placemats, pictures of which have been added to the first post.

@AHB: please say more about that claimed to be Warre.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑19:36 Sat 23 Aug 2025 …Warre (4 year bottling)…

What more needs to be said?

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑20:10 Sat 29 Nov 2025

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑19:36 Sat 23 Aug 2025…Warre (4 year bottling)…

What more needs to be said?

Is this a Warre LBV, bottled 1999 — which would be fine. Or is this more old-school, a Warre proper Vintage, accidentally bottled late. Given the post-1970ness of this tasting (tutting and sighing from some), I’ll assume the former, consistent with which, the placemats have been updated.