Since Jay M just did another wonderful Sherry dinner, and it will likely be too warm for a Big Port dinner soon I propose to continue the “Delicious fortified wine” series with…a…
Madeira Dinner. Location and date TBD in June or July. (Once we have a list of people available in June/July & interested, I will send out a doodle poll to nail down a date)
I will likely bring some of these along (definitely the sercial, maybe a couple of others); also a good guide to the typical styles of madeira.
It depends on date (it’s a busy time period) and whether I can source some more. I have only two bottles - a 1908 D’Oliveras and an 1875 Barbeito - and they are both already allocated to other events.
OK We have : PeterB, Sam_Kwak, Joseph_Grassa and a potential J_a_y_H_a_c_k
I will leave this up for another week and then send a date poll to the above + others who respond.
Jay: As awesome as deep cuts such as your deeply aged Madeiras are, I think good+ quality bottles with a wide range of styles represented will be plenty good for this crew (myself included)!
Definitely bringing the Historic Series Madeira: Savannah Verdelho and the
Charleston Sercial - maybe one more from that series TBD.
Happy to have non-wine beserkers! We should aim at minimum of 1 madeira per person to keep things interesting. Definitely loop them in to the date poll when I post next week.
Mondays in Jun/July. All at 7pm, Balvanera, Lower East side.
If interested, fill in ALL the dates you can potentially come on this poll.
We will go with the most popular that is selected by May 22 1159pm (yes I am a faculty member who gives homework deadlines, why do you ask?)
Please only use the doodle poll for scheduling; don’t start a discussion on this thread or an email chain, don’t reply to this post with dates you can/can’t come.
On that doodle link: You can change your selections up until the poll is closed without notifying everyone; everyone can see who can come when. It really is the way to schedule stuff!
If you know non-wine berserkers who can bring madeira and like to talk about/taste interesting wine, they can come, but you must mention them on this thread (so we don’t get randos from the link above)
Count me in --voted prior to 5/22/23 23:59 cutoff. Think I have a few madeira lying around between the vintage port bottles. Will post bottle sooner than later
Sorry, but we have tickets for the SPAC Jazz Festival in Saratoga and will not be coming back until the 26th and I expect to be a bit tired after the return drive - - - but I will discuss it with the War Department in the am.
As a reminder to those attending: Bring 1 bottle of good Madeira per person that hasn’t been mentioned in this thread. Doesn’t have to be fancy or high end (but we like both those things!!)…I can send reccs for this if people don’t know what to bring…
If people want to bring non-Madeira wine AS WELL as one madeira they are welcome to!. The more the merrier! The lighter madeiras are similar in intensity to fino or amontillado sherries and we have successfully had a dinner with mostly those. …
If you’re looking for a (non mandatory!) theme for any non maderized wine, white wine made from Malvasia, Bual, Verdelho, or Sercial would be appropriate (since that’s what most high quality Madeira is made from)…