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1908 v 1912 as part of a 1945 older Port theme AKA The Doty Cup 5

This post to hold arrangements as and when agreed.

People who can:

1. Industry guest;
2. Industry guest;
3. JDAW (as CSD wrote “I got us covered, buts that it!”);
4. CSD.

People who hope:

1. SCD
2. AHB
3. MPM
4. WS1
5. TC
6. GEAG
7. IA
8. Christopher

Waitlist:

• Javier
• CSD/WS1 Guest
• CPR1
• nac

Venue: most likely to be The Heritage Bed and Breakfast, Dorset DT34DS www.theheritagebandb.com
(Very likely to be across 2 Days beginning Friday 21st Oct 2022 with a 2000 VP theme/something very nice on night 1, and the main event on the Saturday.)

(There doesn’t appear to be a thread for the first Doty Cup. Nonetheless: second; third; “the 4th Annual Doty Cup”.)

JDAW edit: was this the first Doty Cup?

This post reserved for purposes as yet undecided.

In a thread appropriately named Pleasures of a bygone civilisation, there has been dispute as to the better of 1908 and 1912.

You know where this is going.

At least two lists of possible attendees will be maintained. First, those able to bring appropriate bottles, or have them brought on their behalf. Merely hoping to adopt would not be sufficient qualification for this list. A subsidiary list will hold hopers. We will have a shortage of bottles: priority to those who can.

Wayward Tendrils of the Vine (1947), Ian Maxwell Campbell, mentions the competition between a different pair of Port vintages, concluding:

Both vintages are decidedly above average quality, but neither, it may be surmised, outstandingly better than the other, and the rivalry between them may be as long lived as that between the popular 1899 and 1900 clarets.

This might be the correct analogy for the ’08-’12 competition.

Must happen at simpsons

Will also bring d45 375
Pol roger 1943 375
Huet 1945

Call it the Doty cup v

Add ahb , rayc, Iram Kahn and most recently Simon

Simpsons would be good. But there are also other good possibilities.

Chris Doty wrote: ↑17:23 Wed 19 May 2021Add ahb , rayc, Iram Kahn and most recently Simon

Have they bottles?

Chris Doty wrote: ↑17:23 Wed 19 May 2021Call it the Doty cup v

If Doty cup 5, then SCD should be the organiser.

Correct

Yes please

Count me in please… it is highly likely I will need to adopt…

But even better is the idea of DOTY cup 5 and I would be happy to host at www.theheritagebandb.com if we can get the dates right. I believe other rounds/libations will be required along with sour dough bread and lots of cheese! Let’s make it happen.

Count me in. Think I'll be an adopt. I believe my last bottle of '12 was consumed at one of the xmas bashes.

This will be jdaw1, Chris Doty, two phantom guests, and two bottles.

I thought I had one colheita from one of those years but I don't even have that, it's an 1897.

flash_uk wrote: ↑17:34 Wed 19 May 2021Count me in. Think I'll be an adopt. I believe my last bottle of '12 was consumed at one of the xmas bashes.

This has become a Doty Cup. The rules are now CSD’s rules — and he doesn’t really believe in rules — so anything might happen.

Perhaps we should also aim to do a comparison of Ports of a similar age as would have been those when Pleasures of a Bygone Civilisation was being written.

Everyone wants to adopt, but no one has any kids.

I am a hoper. I have no vintage port that old and indeed have almost never tried any. A half of Warre 1912 that the colour had fallen out of is the sum total.

Yes please -

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2pyWoTXs4

Yes please, I believe I have a suitable 12

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Dom 02 was stellar a few years back, but is in my view ageing alarmingly quickly. I've drunk all mine.

Sounds like you are having more fun than we are at the moment, though.

Have no 08 but have Niepoort Colheita 12 which I think should qualify. At least for me this is the greatest Colheita I drank so far.

regards

WS1

Yes please.

Have a bottle of something 1908, and could offer a fairly decent selection of 2002 Champagnes as a pre-event event...

Yes please.

Slow off the blocks again-wait list please and will probably have to adopt (but who knows).

I'm very slow of the Blocks like Ian!

i will have to join the wait list, but I will double check tomorrow, but i think that i have 1908 Cockburn's in the cellar

hadge wrote: ↑20:05 Thu 20 May 2021 i think that i have 1908 Cockburn's in the cellar

A joy to have; a greater status not to know.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑22:16 Thu 20 May 2021

hadge wrote: ↑20:05 Thu 20 May 2021 i think that i have 1908 Cockburn's in the cellar

A joy to have; a greater status not to know.

Brilliant.

@ Hadge - if you do have Cockburn 08 in the cellar, you are not on the wait list, you are automatically promoted...

jdaw1 wrote: ↑17:24 Wed 19 May 2021

Chris Doty wrote: ↑17:23 Wed 19 May 2021Add ahb , rayc, Iram Kahn and most recently Simon

Have they bottles?

I own bottles. Whether they are relevant bottles will depend on the theme finally settled on.

Chris Doty wrote: ↑21:18 Wed 19 May 2021

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2pyWoTXs4

Underwhelmed by Dom , we’re giving another zero deuce a shot at the forte

We add zest and flesh, we remove tart. We are satisfied

I've 1908s and 1912s, albeit only colheitas, if such suffices for the waitlist...