1945 Vintage Port Tasting

[Axel P]

We are organising a decent 1945 Vintage Port tasting on 9 May at the RAF Club with the following Ports:

Cockburn
Constantino
Croft
Dow
Graham
Taylor
Fonseca
Offley
Royal Oporto
Warre
Morgan
Eira Velha
Ferreira
Feuerheerd
Kopke
Rozes
Ramos Pinto
Sandeman
Noval
Rabello Valente
Niepoort

with the following participants:

George Sandeman
Alex B.
Tom
Daniel
Phil
Rob
Julian
Wolfgang G.
Wolfgang S.
Derek
Christopher P.
Vio
Giles
Axel

RESERVES:
JDA

[jdaw1]

Current draft of the placemats.

[flash_uk]

You lucky devils!

[djewesbury]

The 9th of May is Victory Day, as marked previously in the Soviet Union and now in itsformer Republics. What a shame we can't adorn the placemats with a Red Flag, or a hammer and sickle, to recognise the incredible contribution made by so many millions of Soviet citizens to the defeat of fascism.

[djewesbury]

I like the placemats though. What logic determined the order of the ports on the placemats, or is there one? I am not disputing the order; just curious.

[idj123]

Good gracious! If there is a reserve list (even a notional one), put me down!

[Axel P]

..l. and its also the day, where you got us rid of the Austrian (finally)

Axel

[Axel P]

Good gracious! If there is a reserve list (even a notional one), put me down!

Will do.

[WS1]

Niepoort 45 and Ramos Pinto 45 just arrived and will be carried home in my gym bag. This is will be the most thought after gym bag ever!



regards

WS1

[jdaw1]

I like the placemats though. What logic determined the order of the ports on the placemats, or is there one? I am not disputing the order; just curious.

Thank you. The order is that chosen by Axel and Alex, with one alteration by me.

[christopherpfaff]

Dear participants,

I would like to inform you, that I will record a video of this monumental tasting (as I always have done when tasting like this happen ).

So if anyone of you have something really important to say about this tasting generally, about the Vintage 1945 or a curios story about "his" bottle, don´t be shy and make me a notice, not later than the friday evening event and I will record your statemant prior to tasting at saturday afternoon.

As experiences shows, it is much better to record any statemant of a tasting prior to it or at the day after

For all-non participants, you will get an impression of this tasting, when I publish the video later this year on YouTube.

[jdaw1]

On Saturday 9^th May 2015 we had a splendid horizontal of 1945 in The RAF Club, ably arranged by Axel Probst/WorldOfPort.de.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• The apéritifs:
  • 10Y Andresen, bottled 1945;
  • 1945 Massandra Crimean ‘Port’;
  • 2013 O Port Unidade;
  • 1945 Cruz Veludo colheita;
• The vintages:
  • 1945 Royal Oporto (THRA);
  • 1945 Rebello Valente (GW);
  • 1945 Feuerheerd (CP);
  • 1945 Rozès (WPS);
  • 1945 Morgan (DRT);
  • 1945 Eira Velha (DRT);
  • 1945 Quinta do Noval (GW);
  • 1945 Constantino (AP);
  • 1945 Offley (THRA);
  • 1945 Ferreira (CP);
  • 1945 Cockburn (AP);
  • 1945 Sandeman (GTDS);
  • 1945 Ramos Pinto (VvC);
  • 1945 Warre (PW);
  • 1945 Dow (JDAW);
  • 1945 Graham (WG);
  • 1945 Fonseca (AHB);
  • 1945 Kopke (WPS);
  • 1945 Niepoort (RAYC);
  • 1945 Taylor (AHB);
  • 1945 Croft (DJ);
• Placemats (and parameters by which made);
• Announcement.

[PhilW]

• Announcement.

Did I miss it?

[Sten]

Congratulation to the excellent 1945 Vintage Tasting. Sorry to read that some was not good at all. As you can see on my web-site: www.vintageport.se I have enjoyed 11 vintage 1945 but not at all as many as you hade on your 1945 vintage tasting. I have still 6 different houses of the 1945 vintage in my cellar. 3 of them I have never had and 2 were not in you tasting either. I could however not offered them to you as my wife love this year of many reasons and we will enjoy them within the family. We hope we will enjoy some of them during the 2015.
Hope to meet you and drink some port with you in the future.
Sten Ivarsson
Malmö
www.vintageport.se