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Death row is currently empty, its sole occupant until this morning having been the Graham's 1977.

So what bottle(s) shall I put on there for my next drink. You can help to decide.

I'll run this poll for 2 days, at the end of which I may be getting worryingly close to finishing the Graham's and starting to fret if there is nothing waving to me as my next bottle.

Alex

Be a Warre-monger.

Take the Royal Oporto (shelve-occupying-bugger) and save the Croft 1945 for that special moment when friends from the Middle-East come to visit.

I'd suggest having the Royal Oporto on an unimportant birthday, like 46, thus insuring death is staved off for another year.

Table wine is for girls.

Royal Oporto 1963 - I agree with KillerB

Croft 1945 - I agree with Ronnie

Fonseca 1966 - you are not allowed to drink these without me, especially as I have two of them in my house

Vesuvio 1990 - you are Vesuvio Man and our main source of information on how each vintage is drinking - go on, you know you want to

Morgan 1991 - if you wanted to open yet another one of these you would not have put the others in the list

Warre LBV 95 - would be an acceptable alternative to the V90

Derek

KillerB wrote:thus insuring death is staved off for another year.

Not quite clear how such an insurance contract would work. Maybe KillerB meant “ensuring†. (This muddle grates even more than prepositional endings.)

RO63: not worth saving for a guest; needs drinking.

jdaw1 wrote:

KillerB wrote:thus insuring death is staved off for another year.

Not quite clear how such an insurance contract would work. Maybe KillerB meant “ensuring†. (This muddle grates even more than prepositional endings.)

RO63: not worth saving for a guest; needs drinking.

OK, OK, ensuring. I grant that there is no policy available guaranteeing Port for your loved ones if you peg it. I would like to claim a typo but i and e are too far apart on the keyboard, and I cannot be arsed with quotes for them either, no.

I still say save the 63 for a useless birthday.

I went for the Royal Oporto.

May Day is traditionally a day of celebration. Today's newspaper reports the birth of cygnets in Dorset, traditionally heralding summer. I have summoned up the energy to mow the lawn.

What a fine time to drink in style. My vote goes for the Fonseca; so uplifting!

RonnieRoots wrote: save the Croft 1945 for that special moment when friends from the Middle-East come to visit.

and for when the "Yanks take over the UK" Tour comes.

Warre's LBV...I'd like to get your take on this one since I've had it many times

Who suggested that I should have a bottle of table wine?

Come on, confess. You know who you are (but I don't)...

Not me, I voted for the Warre's LBV 1995, always exciting to try something you don't know yet...

I've just chosen the Warres. If you haven't tasted it, it should be a pleasant surprise, but either way, it'll interest me as to what you make of it.

The real treats, like F66 can wait for special occasions.

Hang on, this means four of us claim to have voted Warre and it has only three votes! I was the first vote on and I'm definitely on there. Conky has just voted and the figure went up to three. 10Anosclaims to have voted Warre, which leaves... ADV. Andy, did you vote or just comment?

KillerB wrote:Andy, did you vote or just comment?

Andy is American - he needs to be told how to vote

Derek T. wrote:Andy is American - he needs to be told how to vote

There are three relevant possibilities.

• The maximum strength Fonseca 1966 (McCain): but does America want something gentler?
• Warre 1995 LBV (HRC): is this the time for a stop-at-nothing-to-win three-letter acronym, or is this merely the second product of a house dominant in the 1990s?
• The gentler Royal Oporto 1963 (Obama): I’m struggling for a workable analogy.

AHB wrote:Who suggested that I should have a bottle of table wine?

Come on, confess. You know who you are (but I don't)...

HEHEHE

I'm not allowed to vote anymore, something about being more Portuguese than American. They must have found out about all that Purple Sunshine I drink

ACutally, I did vote for the 1945...only because I was under the influence of above mentioned P.S. and miss read the choice, DOH!!! So edit that '45 vote and add it to the Warre's..thanks

Julian has ruined my appetite for Warre.

I would have put Sen Mc Cain down as Dow, a dry and powerful individual with a distinguished lineage.

OK. The Warre 1995 LBV it is.

I assume that Andy's vote wasn't counted because it was suffering from "hanging chad symdrome" and wasn't being cast for the bottle for which we had told him to vote.

I may have a Mugabe style recount until I get the result that I want...

I think I might also get that space occupying bugger out and also stand it on Death Row next to the Warre LBV.

Thanks for voting folks (even G-man!)

Alex