2009 PORT HARVEST TOUR

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2009 PORT HARVEST TOUR

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Dates carved in stone: 2009 PORT HARVEST TOUR V - OCT. 4TH - OCT 11TH

The "new" Travel Page is finalized: http://www.fortheloveofport.com/wine-travel-2009.html
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The Post Harvest Tour in London was spit to this thread HERE
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Here is a little note to anyone who may have been reading about Andy and I's recent exploits in the Douro or lurking around wondering whether or not to take the plunge and visit the promised land sometime soon.

Like many here I have been on one of Roy's Harvest Tours and it was my first real introduction to the places and people that make Port. I had done the normal tourist route around the lodges of VNG two years earlier but the two experiences could not have been more different. If you are serious about your interest in Port and want or need someone to open doors to places you simply cannot access yourself then Roy's Harvest Tour is the place you need to go. Sacrifice some or all of your port buying budget if you need to, sell the kids and the wife if there are no other options - just sign-up and get yourself over there for an experience of a lifetime - you will not regret it :wink:

In all seriousness, these trips are phenominal and are excellent value.

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Oh - and pack an extra liver for the trip home :winebath: :drunk: :help:
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Oh - and pack an extra liver for the trip home
I just take mine and dry clean it. :winebath:
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Eric Ifune wrote:
Oh - and pack an extra liver for the trip home
I just take mine and dry clean it. :winebath:
I think some of the hotels that Roy uses will do that at the Concierge desk. They know their customers well! :drunk:
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First everyone steals my use of "VP" and now my infamous "liver dry cleaning" lines go by the way side? I should have copyrighted both! :mrgreen:

Thanks for the plug Derek!

Still some spots available for this year's trip for anyone interested. :winepour:
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Interested - absolutely.

Able to go - not this year :( already used up all my domestic passes for "boys trips abroad". But I am promising myself to go on another trip soon.
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It's been almost one full year since I last visited a porcelain god [d_training.gif]
My training should be complete in 3 years .
By which time I will be 50 and I see no better way to celebrate than to find my way on a Harvest tour . :winebath:
Vintage avant jeunesse/or the other way around . . .
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Luc,

In 2012, you are going to have to soak up 180 Ports in a week. Start drinking more NOW. [d_training.gif]

That will be one great vintage and I can assure you, we'll try something from 1912 ... even if I have to bring a bottle along with me. Your 50th, represents my 55th and that is as good a reason as any to open such an oldie.
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Luc Gauthier wrote:It's been almost one full year since I last visited a porcelain god [d_training.gif]
My training should be complete in 3 years .
By which time I will be 50 and I see no better way to celebrate than to find my way on a Harvest tour . :winebath:
Come down for a Sandeman vertical... Actually we have a few bottles of Niepoort and would like to do a Niepoort vertical too. I assume between you & Fred, so you should be able to source a few vintages of Niepoort. I have '70 and '77.
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Roy , did you say 180 Ports in a week [shok.gif]
Hell , I don't even break wind 180 times in a week :roll:
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Good news Luc, because if you did ... I think we'd "dis-invite" you!

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Roy Hersh wrote:Good news Luc, because if you did ... I think we'd "dis-invite" you!

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Luc Gauthier wrote:Roy , did you say 180 Ports in a week [shok.gif]
Hell , I don't even break wind 180 times in a week :roll:
Luc,

It's not the wind that you have to worry about in the Douro - it's the purple crust that you'll be throwing from around day 2 [shok.gif]

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Words of wisdom , I assume :scholar:
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Luc Gauthier wrote:Words of wisdom , I assume :scholar:
Wisdom? I'll let you decide - but it's certainly words based on experience :wink:
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Derek T. wrote:
Luc Gauthier wrote:Words of wisdom , I assume :scholar:
Wisdom? I'll let you decide - but it's certainly words based on experience :wink:
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Did I say wisdom ?
More like wisdom given by a porcelain god [beg.gif]
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Wooo hoooo.

We have another couple joining us for the Port Harvest Tour. Charlie and Marilyn from Houston, TX will be coming along for the experience! [cheers.gif]
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Derek's plug reaffirms what I have been thinking for two years already: I must go!

As my kids get to be a bit older and a little less work on poor mom, who would remain at home with three of 'em, it will still be a bit before I get to go. I am targetting 2011 as 2010's budget will be sort of blown with a couple of triathlon-based trips (my other love.) That and the Harvest Tour would fall directly before my second race at the beginning of November.

I swear though - I will make it one of these days!
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