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Thanks for the update, and for providing an adoptable bottle Tom.
I'll now be bringing Rebello Valente 1966.
I'd also like to bring my wife (non-drinker), that she won't have to spend the night & dinner alone in a foreign city. Would that be acceptable>

SushiNorth wrote:Thanks for the update, and for providing an adoptable bottle Tom.
I'll now be bringing Rebello Valente 1966.
I'd also like to bring my wife (non-drinker), that she won't have to spend the night & dinner alone in a foreign city. Would that be acceptable>

Surely! I can't imagine that anyone would object!

All week she has been trying to shake you off, to have a party evening without the husband. Foiled again!

Bung Hole called; 120 glasses booked.

Rather late in the day but been out of action for a few weeks, is there a spare slot for this please?
Tom would it be possible to adopt for this please
I also have a bottle of the latest niepoort crusted which will bring along.

Excellent, the 2011? Fancy trying that. I see it's at the BFT too. And it'll be good to see you at the table in the Bung Hole.

Christopher: splendid. Tom has an Offley available, so I'll add you for that. But you please ask him directly. And thank you for the Niepoort Crusted (when bottled?).

Twelve bottles, eleven people: more glasses needed. I'm in a basement without phone reception: please somebody call to up the request to 150.

Latecommer: Rob will bring QH 66. Julian, please ammend the placemats.

Axel

Can everyone please advise if his bottles will be properly decanted on scene or prior to the event?

Thanks

Axel

Axel P wrote:Latecommer: Rob will bring QH 66. Julian, please ammend the placemats.

Also, CMAG wants a guest. I will phone the Bung Hole Tuesday morning to ask for extra glasses. If that doesn’t work then, well, then something.

then we ask Tom to kindly provide one or two decanters and will pour if glasses are empty.

Axel

Just talked to Dirk and his son Daniel, they would like to come, too and bring Constantino and NIepoort.

Is there space enough to host 14?

Thanks again, Julian

Axel

Two Daniels at one table. A very good plan!

Axel P wrote:Just talked to Dirk and his son Daniel, they would like to come, too and bring Constantino and NIepoort.

Sure. Is he also EDN?

People just don’t want to tell me things before reserving the correct number of glasses, do they.

Now we are definitely pre-pouring. So early arrival of bottles would greatly help. As would a helper, on parade with me at 16:30. Please?

jdaw1 wrote:Now we are definitely pre-pouring. So early arrival of bottles would greatly help. As would a helper, on parade with me at 16:30. Please?

Can do.

Current draft of the placemats.

Axel: please check these placemats, both bottles and people.

idj123 wrote:The F70 will arrive decanted (whhich I will have to undertake in the morning).

Ian

you meant F66, didn´t you?

regards

WS1

Axel P wrote:Latecommer: Rob will bring QH 66. Julian, please ammend the placemats.

Axel

good man! He will bring then Croft (wine society), Dow and Quarles Harris to the tasting for pouring.



regards

WS1

jdaw1 wrote:There are fourteen people. We are full. No more.

Thanks a lot for organising! When reading this thread I was laughing since it is very similar to a story of late arrival and jumping on the band waggon....



looking fwd to the event

regards

WS1

There is much pouring to be done in a small space. Obviously that would be more difficult if most bottles arrive after 6pm. Please can bottles arrive earlier—meaning your bottles, not just everybody else’s.

Christopher: what is your Kiwi guest adopting?

For various reasons to do with logistics, my Taylor will be arriving decanted but it and I will not be arriving much before 6:30pm.

Tom is bringing my Graham 66, but I have a work dinner starting at 7 which I will be ducking out of at the earliest opportunity. So should be with you all by 9 at the latest. I can help pour at 4.30 if that helps? And can print if that also helps.

flash_uk wrote:I can help pour at 4.30 if that helps? And can print if that also helps.

Yes please. And yes please.

Thanks again for the organisation, Jdaw

Axel

djewesbury wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:Now we are definitely pre-pouring. So early arrival of bottles would greatly help. As would a helper, on parade with me at 16:30. Please?

Can do.

Am I required, subsequent offer having been taken up?

Two should suffice, if you have more important things to do.

jdaw1 wrote:Two should suffice, if you have more important things to do.

I might have a pint upstairs then

Given how this tasting has mushroomed perhaps the word 'small' should be dropped from the title of this thread! Oh, and good spot Wolfgang, yes indeed,I did mean F66 ! Not to impact placemats but I'll probably bring that bottle of Sousa 66 colheita (bottled in 92) as well (to make'up for the fact that other chap couldn't,t make it).

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:I can help pour at 4.30 if that helps? And can print if that also helps.

Yes please. And yes please.

OK see you there.

idj123 wrote:Given how this tasting has mushroomed perhaps the word 'small' should be dropped from the title of this thread! Oh, and good spot Wolfgang, yes indeed,I did mean F66 ! Not to impact placemats but I'll probably bring that bottle of Sousa 66 colheita (bottled in 92) as well (to make'up for the fact that other chap couldn't,t make it).

Thought the same, but only the replacement to "Modest 1966 Horizontal on 22 of April" came to mind. But this word play can result in a dangerous mine field especially when DRT or JDAW have caught the "completness bug". Have a look e.g. at the sizeable Malvedos vertical.

regards

WS1

Following the above discussion, the central header of the placemats has been changed to “1966: A Small Horizontal (the adjective being disputed by people of little ambition)”. Does that fairly capture the sense of the discussion?

WS1 wrote:DRT or JDAW have caught the "completness bug". Have a look e.g. at the sizeable Malvedos vertical.

Libel! I wasn’t at the Malvedos vertical. Why would I have been, when on that evening I was elsewhere attending The Graham’s Vertical?

jdaw1 wrote:Following the above discussion, the central header of the placemats has been changed to “1966: A Small Horizontal (the adjective being disputed by people of little ambition)”. Does that fairly capture the sense of the discussion?

Perhaps honour could be preserved on all sides by naming this "A Flight of 1966"?

DRT wrote:Perhaps honour could be preserved on all sides by naming this "A Flight of 1966"?

Works for me. Objections?

idj123 wrote:Given how this tasting has mushroomed perhaps the word 'small' should be dropped from the title of this thread!

I enjoyed the intended irony...I quite suspect Axel knew when he started the thread that there was little prospect it would be "small" in any way

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:Perhaps honour could be preserved on all sides by naming this "A Flight of 1966"?

Works for me. Objections?

“A Flight of 1966 Vintage Port”: done.

Review thread created, and some TN threads (perhaps all, perhaps not). But discussion continues here until the event.

I would vote for "a glass or two of 1966" trying to honor a word or two on Port by JJ Forrester.

Axel

In view of number of people:

- is it worth 2 flights of 7 ports with second flight being poured by a couple of volunteers while others eat? Or fitting the fourteen 66 VPs onto 1 A3 sheet?

- asking TBH to put the air conditioning on to full? (will also help if ports will sit in glass for a long time, but 14 people produce a lot of heat in that room)

Axel and WS1's ports have been standing at my flat for a couple of weeks and can be delivered with my bottle to Bunghole at some point between 4.00 and 6.00 (earlier to the extent possible).

If anyone is passing by BBR at any point in the day, let me know as there is a nice magnum of champagne there initially intended for the Doty cup but which could be used as an aperitif here.

Are we saving corks and doing a cork display?

I like the split. Souza and seven VPs; then eight VPs and crusted. Which seven first?

Cr D F G S T W

One of the Sandemans has become a Delaforce. Placemats and things will be updated soon.

Perfect. More complete. Then we have
Cr D F G S T W (So Col)
Cn Df GC Ni N O QH RV (Ni Cr 11)

jdaw1 wrote:

WS1 wrote:DRT or JDAW have caught the "completness bug". Have a look e.g. at the sizeable Malvedos vertical.

Libel! I wasn’t at the Malvedos vertical. Why would I have been, when on that evening I was elsewhere attending The Graham’s Vertical?

I know that, I was just highlighting an example and not in any form a comment rubbing it in that you were at the Graham's vertical....

Axel P wrote:I would vote for "a glass or two of 1966" trying to honor a word or two on Port by JJ Forrester.

Axel

agreed and gets me out of trouble after having hit a soft spot at JDAW!

regards

WS1

Having updated the placemats, and all the graphic files and TN threads, I have just realised that I haven’t changed the centre header from DRT’s excellent suggestion. Axel’s idea, also excellent, can be saved for another day.



Somebody please check my work. Check bottles; check people. Somebody please check.

jdaw1 wrote:Somebody please check my work. Check bottles; check people. Somebody please check.

The PDF doesn't match the embedded images in your post.

EDIT: never mind....I forgot to refresh!

All looks good to me. 114 pages will be printed tomorrow at midday.