I picked Pro Bowl weekend deliberately because no one watches the Pro Bowl.
That conveniently avoids any conflicts with football games that might actually matter.Due to the large number of bottles this will be a 2-day event. I'm going to hold the sessions at noon on Saturday and Sunday, so plan travel accordingly. (Read: you probably shouldn't plan to fly home on Sunday evening unless it's a very late flight.) For those who are available on Friday evening there will probably be something casual, but I'm not going to worry about setting that up until closer to the date. You'll want to eat lunch before arriving each day, and then groups will likely break off for dinners afterwards each evening. We may try to arrange a full-group dinner on Saturday evening, but it's going to be a large group so that may not be realistic.
The venue is not yet firm, but we're hoping to use the Holiday Inn again. It's nice enough for our purposes and very convenient. If we end up at a different location we'll be able to provide transport for 6-8, so reservations at the Holiday Inn are safe.
Also due to the large number of bottles we're going to go with a slightly larger tasting (and correspondingly smaller servings). So the hard limit for this tasting will be 16, which allows for 1.5 oz pours.
Since I already have most of the bottles, you won't need to bring one. If you have an esoteric bottle from 1985 that I don't already have, let me know. I'll total up the amount spent on all bottles, divide by the number of attendees, and we'll work out costs that way. I did pretty well on most of the bottles that I have, so my rough guess is that cost will be around $145 per person for, essentially, 2 bottles each.
NOTE ON COST: Since we're going to be renting conference rooms for 2 days at the Holiday Inn, we'll need to share that cost as well. Based on past experience and divided by 16 attendees, that should come to about $40 total per person for both days, in addition to the cost of the Port.
SECOND NOTE ON COST: The estimate for the Port has gone up to $145 per person, primarily due to the fact that we're going to have more bottles than I'd originally hoped. So the total cost per person (Port + room) is now estimated to be $185 per person.
We've been doing a lot of 20-year retrospectives... finally a chance to do an older one! :)
1. Glenn
2. Roy
3. Sandy (Nacional)
4. Stewart
5. Lisa
6. Vic
7. Brad
8. Eric M
9. Andy (Krohn)
10. David
XX. Sean (Delaforce, Osborne)
11. Jamie Garard (Feist)
12. Linda Garard (Morgan)
13. Lindsay
XX. Marc (Guedes, Niepoort, Rabello Valente)
14. Edgar
15. Steve McNabb (Edgar +1)
16. Lisa Stephenson
List of bottles that we already have (person bringing):
Barros
Borges & Irmao (John M. donation)
Burmester
Calem
Churchill
Cockburn
Croft
Delaforce (Sean)
Dow
Feist (Jamie)
Ferreira
Fonseca
Gould Campbell
Graham
Guedes (Marc)
Hooper's
Kopke
Krohn (Andy)
Martinez
Morgan (Linda)
Niepoort (Marc)
Offley Boa Vista
Osborne (Sean)
Ramos Pinto
Quarles Harris
Quinta do Infantado
Quinta do Noval
Quinta do Noval Nacional (Sandy)
Rabello Valente (Marc)
Sandeman
Smith Woodhouse
Taylor Fladgate
Warre
List of other Ports from 1985 that we still need:
Gonzalez Byass
Hutcheson
Kopke's Quinta Sao Luiz
Messias
Pocas
Quinta da Baldias
Quinta da Romaneira
Real Companhia Velha
Romariz
Rozes
Van Zeller
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what are we going to do without them. You should mail them out to us, we'll advise on how good they were. 
