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Tue 29th Oct 2019 - Phil's Birthday

Posted: 12:25 Tue 29 Oct 2019
by Alex Bridgeman
Happy birthday Phil!

For the record, Paul's bottle (number 1) was decanted at 10.00 and my bottle (number 2) was decanted at 11.30. Both are in black blind-tasting bottle bags so if anyone else is using these, please don't use numbers 1 and 2!

I am also bringing a third bottle, just for a laugh (so if anyone can bring a spare blind bottle bag I can borrow, please do.)

Re: Tue 29th Oct 2019 - Phil's Birthday

Posted: 23:05 Tue 29 Oct 2019
by PhilW
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Re: Tue 29th Oct 2019 - Phil's Birthday

Posted: 23:06 Tue 29 Oct 2019
by PhilW
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Re: Tue 29th Oct 2019 - Phil's Birthday

Posted: 17:40 Wed 30 Oct 2019
by PhilW
Much thanks due to all for last night's tasting, with additional guests Paul and a surprise showing by Chris D. Particular thanks to JDAW for organising during my recent absence leading up to the tasting, and for preparing a most unexpected gift of the book of the evening - my very own special edition of Port Vintages for the ports present at the birthday tasting! Great job, and thank you again indeed.

The chosen theme was intended to allow a good variety of potential ports, and that turned out to have worked well; we had LBVs and crusted from '69, as well a broad range of VPs from '50 to '16 and a good variety of shippers also. One attendee's bottle disappeared on the way to the tasting, but another had a "spare" pre-decanted bottle; only in such a great group of geeks could we likely find such capability!

My personal favourites were the Noval '55 which some were less keen on than others but I though was superb (only fading slightly towards the end of the evening) and the Cockburn '50 which for me was a beautiful old, slightly tawnied/toffee'd vp - in fact I guessed it might be a garrafeira, though it was perhaps a little soft for that; and the Ck50 was indeed WOTN overall, just ahead of the F77.

This was also the first time I tried the W69lbv; I thought it showed well, now very mature and showing some hint of oranges (which fooled me into thinking Croft rather than Warre), but did seem to degrade significantly by the end of the evening so will perhaps be wise to use a short decant in future. There were two faulty wines, a Bb94 (of which I understand a previous bottle had a similar problem) and a heavily-VA'd GM90 - the latter a shame as that can be a lovely wine when showing well - but these things happen. In all, we had a great range of bottles (others I haven't mentioned above included CrR67, T69cr, W70, T92, BoS94(SW) and N16).

Overall it was a very enjoyable evening, and thank you to everyone for the organisation, their bottles, their excellent company, and for allowing me to use my birthday as the excuse for us all to get together :)

Re: Tue 29th Oct 2019 - Phil's Birthday

Posted: 19:41 Thu 31 Oct 2019
by Alex Bridgeman
Does anyone know whether the bottle Tom had stolen en route to the Boot & Flogger was returned intact to his house while he was away?

Re: Tue 29th Oct 2019 - Phil's Birthday

Posted: 10:42 Wed 14 Jun 2023
by flash_uk

Re: Tue 29th Oct 2019 - Phil's Birthday

Posted: 14:18 Wed 14 Jun 2023
by PhilW
Interesting that you just necro'd this thread, as I was thinking about this tasting after yesterday's session where I again, against the crowd, liked the N55 very much, indeed my winner of the second flight despite the W55 being top notch. I must really like N55 for some reason...

Re: Tue 29th Oct 2019 - Phil's Birthday

Posted: 16:22 Wed 14 Jun 2023
by flash_uk
PhilW wrote: 14:18 Wed 14 Jun 2023 Interesting that you just necro'd this thread, as I was thinking about this tasting after yesterday's session where I again, against the crowd, liked the N55 very much, indeed my winner of the second flight despite the W55 being top notch. I must really like N55 for some reason...
Commencing my long-postponed tasting note updates :)

Re: Tue 29th Oct 2019 - Phil's Birthday

Posted: 21:44 Wed 20 Sep 2023
by Alex Bridgeman
As am I. My TNs are being posted now...