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Hummus and Melba Toast as starter
Chicken main
Fries

Thank you

Soup then Bangers & Mash for me!

I've taken the liberty of updating the attendee list to add DGR

jdaw1 wrote: ↑11:52 Sat 18 Feb 2023Food orders please, from the B&F menu.

Mike, Ian, Darrel: food please.

Current draft of the food order.

CEM will be joining us. I’ve added him to the list of attendees.

His meal choice is:
Mackerel starter
Chicken with a side of chips as main
Cheese plate for dessert

He will be bringing a bottle of full bodied red.

DGR food order

Smoked salmon
Sirloin steak blue (really extremely extremely rare, pat the steak warmly as it walks out of the kitchen), bearnaise sauce, fries, salad

Please:

Duck liver pâté
Sirloin rare with a fried egg
Fries
Green beans and shallots

Many thanks.

Food order done and sent.

Alas team I must apologise, due to logistical difficulties I can not provide the Cr77 Magnum. As a replacement I can offer a magnum of F77 if that is acceptable to the team?

If so I will split this 3 ways given we are 8

1 decanted with nothing other than a funnel
2 decanted through new muslin
3 decanted with nothing and put straight in fridge

I am sure I speak for all attending when I say that I do not believe any of us will object to a magnum of Fonseca 1977, in any guise you care to produce it.

winesecretary wrote: ↑22:46 Sat 25 Feb 2023I am sure I speak for all attending when I say that I do not believe any of us will object to a magnum of Fonseca 1977, in any guise you care to produce it.

I have never, and I suspect that none of us have ever, in any way, objected to a magnum of Fonseca 1977.

Placemats updated.

Please could we also have placemats to keep track of the full bodied red wines.

CEM will bring a bottle of full bodied red wine

Are we sighted on the red wine?

winesecretary wrote: ↑09:13 Sun 26 Feb 2023Are we sighted on the red wine?

Slight preference for the administrative simplicity of sighted.

Are there three reds (GEAG, CEM, AHB)?

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑22:57 Sat 25 Feb 2023Please could we also have placemats to keep track of the full bodied red wines.

Done.

Four reds as DGR is also bringing one.

winesecretary wrote: ↑10:07 Sun 26 Feb 2023Four reds as DGR is also bringing one.

Placemats updated — please could somebody check.

CPR 1 wrote: ↑19:56 Sat 25 Feb 2023 Alas team I must apologise, due to logistical difficulties I can not provide the Cr77 Magnum. As a replacement I can offer a magnum of F77 if that is acceptable to the team?

If so I will split this 3 ways given we are 8

1 decanted with nothing other than a funnel
2 decanted through new muslin
3 decanted with nothing and put straight in fridge

Can I just check what the finally agreed decanting protocol is?

Julian suggested a protocol here, where bottle is gently swirled to distribute sediment, then split x ways, then each split is decanted in a different pre-determined fashion.

Alex here suggested freepour until sediment appears, discard sediment part for the purposes of the experiment, then split the freepoured juice x ways, then each split is decanted in a different pre-determined fashion.

Charles in the post I'm replying to doesn't clearly specify "swirl first" or "freepour and discard sediment"

I venture my preference for the Julian protocol, as I was thinking that the experiment was to explore how to best decant a bottle of port that has sediment in it. Fully accept that Alex's protocol is for an experiment for how to best decant a port that has been freepoured first, to exclude heavy sediment. And Charles's protocol has all the tight definition of a Pfizer trial.

Each bringer of a magnum does their own version of the experiment. So there will be variations of protocol.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑09:25 Sun 26 Feb 2023

winesecretary wrote: ↑09:13 Sun 26 Feb 2023Are we sighted on the red wine?

Slight preference for the administrative simplicity of sighted.

Are there three reds (GEAG, CEM, AHB)?

I wasn’t planning to bring one, although I can if required.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑21:09 Sun 26 Feb 2023I wasn’t planning to bring one, although I can if required.

Not required.

Placemats updated — please could somebody check.

GEAG CEM DGR bringing reds.

Julian you already have mine in your possession. Darrel's is 2001 McGregor Vineyards Black Russian Red, Finger Lakes, NY.

Placemats printed.

F77

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