NYC's Acker Merrall: Taylor v. Fonseca VPs w/ Roy Hersh 12/6

Julian D. A. Wiseman · Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:48 am

A few days ago my credit card was lightened of the non-trivial cost. See you there.

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:24 pm

Hi Julian,

It will be great to finally put a face to the name. I am looking forward to meeting you!

The last time I checked we had 18 individuals for the tasting. It should be a lot of fun! This will almost be like an FTLOP offline. Do we really want to do this blind (tasting)?

See you in a couple of days.

Julian D. A. Wiseman · Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:34 pm

If not blind, this might help. Either blind or sighted works for me.

Edit: will the bottles be decanted in good time?

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:50 pm

This is not within my direct control although I have reached out to the folks at Acker to discuss this and will be speaking to them again to provide more detailed info.

Julian D. A. Wiseman · Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:54 pm

Roy Hersh wrote:This

“This”? The blindness, or the decanting time? If the latter, please speak very ﬁrmly to them.

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:14 pm

Yes the decant time. I will provide specific times at which the Ports should be decanted. The impression I got by email was that they don't have a ton of decanters to leave all of the Ports sitting individually. But I will speak with them tomorrow when I arrive in NYC.

Roy

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:58 pm

I believe there are either 18 or 19 of us and many from this Forum. I discussed in great detail, the decanting regimen to be employed.

As to blind vs. non-blind, I came up with a happy compromise. Everyone will be told the vintage but not which producer.

See you all tomorrow. I arrived with my daughter today and hey, all of our luggage was at JFK as well. Amazing ... praise the lord!

Julian D. A. Wiseman · Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:28 pm

In which case this will be useful. I’ll bring my own, to help me.

Julian D. A. Wiseman · Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:21 am

J. D. A. Wiseman wrote:this

Updated.

Al B. · Post by **Al B.** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:47 am

So how did it go?

Alex

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:42 am

What a great treat to meet Julian Wiseman (finally!) and Paulo Barbosa too. Additionally it was my distinct pleasure to have Eric and Marco also join in the fun and add their valuable commentary.

I had a blast and got so into the evening, I let tasting notes go by the way side. There was plenty of interesting Q&A and I wish I had not spent so much time on the background of each company which only the true Port lovers found fun.

It was great to have a handful of Forum posters show up!

David Spriggs · Post by **David Spriggs** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 12:15 am

Sounds like a great time! I wish I could have been there.

-Dave-

For The Love Of Port

NYC's Acker Merrall: Taylor v. Fonseca VPs w/ Roy Hersh 12/6

A few days ago my credit card was lightened of the cost.

If not blind, this might help.

The blindness, or the decanting time?

I’ll bring my own, to help me.

Re: I’ll bring my own, to help me.