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I was reading the text of Alan's posting about the 2005 declaration and followed the link to infoportwine.com when further down the page a newsarticle caught my eye.

This was an article about the Decanter World Wine Awards for 2007. It says that The Regional Non-Vintage Port Under £10 Prize was awarded to
Gran Cruz Ruby Reserve Tribute

I am now in shock. This puts it on a par in the awards with Graham's Crusted and Taylor 1977

Looks like Alan is the only one on this forum who knows what he is talking about when it comes to Cruz.

Alex

I never said I really liked it!

Quick test - I just tried to post a reply to this and the site crashed - losing my text..

Tom

OK - In brief:

Would you trust Cruz not to cheat when submitting samples to Decanter??

Tom

Tom,
IIRC, there have been a few wineries over the years that have been caught sending a "different" bottle than what is sold at retail to a tasting panel. There was one dry wine company that one of the big reviewers here in the states (maybe James Laube or Suckling??) called to the carpet on it and showed the sample sent was totally different than what they sold at retail. Its a shame that this does happen from time to time, although I don't know if that is the case this time.

Or maybe.... Cruz was the only competitor in that category?
Importers or wineries have to send in these wines, and mostly have to pay to do so. Maybe nobody but Cruz could be bothered?

Hold on. This is the sub-£10 category. And would I win the 1000 meters at the No-Training-Except-Port Fat-Boy Olympics? Maybe. But would that make me an Olympic athlete? Not in my wife’s eyes, let me tell you.

True. But still, there are better ports (a lot probably) in that price category.

jdaw1 wrote:Hold on. This is the sub-£10 category. And would I win the 1000 meters at the No-Training-Except-Port Fat-Boy Olympics? Maybe. But would that make me an Olympic athlete? Not in my wife’s eyes, let me tell you.

Julian, I have been trying to convince my wife and friends that I am the world Champion for the most-port-drinking-fat-ironman triathlon event. Similar comparison

This is similar to an "award" that was given to the company I work for several years ago: "One of Canada's Top Ten Employers" (Until you clicked on the link provided in the web-announcement and dug a bit deeper to discover that companies had to pay to enter said 'competition' and that year over 400 entries had been lost due to a mail strike that occured shortly before the entry deadline. Hmm. Wonder why we didn't win that same 'award' for the next few years too???

I am "Cruz Ruby", so please gentlemen show some respect! I am contented that "Decanter" appreciates my personal qualities.

Michael,

You will not have to suffer this indignity for long. Just keep posting and you will mature into a finer specimen

Derek

This is what keeps me posting - there can't be more insulting thing then call a serious port geek as a "Cruz Ruby"

Btw, what is the next step? How many posts do I need in order to become QdNN 1931 VP?

Nevski wrote:Btw, what is the next step? How many posts do I need in order to become QdNN 1931 VP?

Next step - Cheap Ruby, followed by the greatly insulting Cockburn's Ruby.

Nacional is not on the horizon for a long time. Derek is coming up for 700 posts but is still Warre's Otima 20 year old Tawny. A nice tawny, but VP comes in at 1000.

How can it be that the man who is fullest of Hot Air achieves such glorified status!!!

Thats not aimed at you Derek, but you are favourite to reach the 1000 first.

Alan