For The Love Of Port

Frederick Blais wrote: Don't worry. In Setember Fred will be spending 3 days with Uncle Tom and I in the Douro. He should be fully trained by the end of that trip :devil:

Believe me Derek, I don't need any training, my liver is in Olympic shape. It just need a few hours of sleep in between tastings, which I was not able to get beceause of weird sounds coming from.... heeeerrrr I won't stool my friend here [/quote]
Fred,
Trust me, for your sake I hope it is.

Todd Pettinger wrote: In the end, Moses was the only smart one, because Sean and I were both willing and able, although the TN may have looked something like this:

I want to drink the exclusive stuff as much as anyone, but such vintages must be respected. Opening such a port half-in-the-bag is a dishonor and injustice.

Just because one "can" open such a vintage does not mean one "should" open such vintage at a lax moment as that was.

We drank plenty of awesome port that night and it was good evening indeed!

Moses Botbol wrote:

Todd Pettinger wrote: In the end, Moses was the only smart one, because Sean and I were both willing and able, although the TN may have looked something like this:

I want to drink the exclusive stuff as much as anyone, but such vintages must be respected. Opening such a port half-in-the-bag is a dishonor and injustice.

Just because one "can" open such a vintage does not mean one "should" open such vintage at a lax moment as that was.

We drank plenty of awesome port that night and it was good evening indeed!

This is exactly right!

Next time we'll start on the 1897 stuff early in the evening!!!