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Friday 16th March 2007: chez mon père, a sesquivertical of Cockburn and Taylor ( paperwork ). Present: JDAW MAW RAW WDBP RKA JFH MF SRG, and sort-of SVW. See review . A vertical of Cockburn, with some matching Taylor vintages, and some mystery bottles. Having had very little experience of Cockburn, ...

Nacional 1962, Nacional 1980, and Nacional 1985 were tasted in a further celebration of the birth of my first child, Sophia Wiseman . Present were myself and the missus, and friends BAW ODM TZ SGO'S and RO'S; the first of these bringing some fines cheeses. See review . The 1962, the darkest of the t...

Nacional 1962, Nacional 1980, and Nacional 1985 were tasted in a further celebration of the birth of my first child, Sophia Wiseman . Present were myself and the missus, and friends BAW ODM TZ SGO'S and RO'S; the first of these bringing some fines cheeses. See review . The 1980 was unremarkable when...

Nacional 1962, Nacional 1980, and Nacional 1985 were tasted in a further celebration of the birth of my first child, Sophia Wiseman . Present were myself and the missus, and friends BAW ODM TZ SGO'S and RO'S; the first of these bringing some fines cheeses. See review . The 1985 was the least pleasin...

In each case several shots were taken, and the best used. This is precisely the method I use - I was hoping you had a secret trick that would save me some time It’s all of an extra ¼ minute per shot. Reminding you that you should be waiting patiently for the port to develop in the decanter, perh...

Until the pictures that triggered this thread, I have photographed bottles by holding them in the air about 2½' from my Mac’s built-in camera. Just before taking the picture Apple’s PhotoBooth does a screen white-out as a diffuse flash. This picture is then trimmed, with no colour adjustments. The R...

Back to the subject. The problem is whiteout from the flash versus darkness without flash.

1. Does taping a piece of paper over the flash provide enough diffusion?
2. Mount in a picture frame without glass a piece of white paper. Does shining a light onto that work?
3. Other suggestions?

The one time I had Nacional 1963, in the company of Mr Bridgeman, it tasted of raspberries.

Me too: I would have this again.

No. Must hold all Nacional vintages ever declared, with magnums of the regular Noval from those years in which it also declared.

I repeat my encouragement. please could other posters of TN consider themselves encouraged to include photographs of bottle, cork, and—most importantly—port. Photography geekiness I can’t do. And indeed there was considerable trouble with the flash reflecting off the glass ( e.g. ) and hiding the...

Hundreds of people have fled their homes in three villages in South Yorkshire amid fears a dam is about to burst after torrential rain. … Elsewhere weather conditions are easing after severe flooding across England. But Sheffield remained virtually cut off from the rest of the country as the transp...

Likewise I could call it Antidisestablishmentarianists' Corner. That’s always awkward. The corner could be used by one antidisestablishmentarianist (so ‟Antidisestablishmentarianist's”), but is intended for the use of many to discuss these things (‟Antidisestablishmentarianists'”, as you wrote, a...

Smiths was always too smooth for me — perhaps too Northern in its style. I like more bitter and more grip.

A gallon? The most beer I have ever seen a man drink before debladdering is twelve pints, on the Monopoly pub crawl. He admitted that it was a “long slash†.

Smaller picture done.

KillerB wrote:Thanks jdaw, having used these I can confirm that they are extremely useful.

Does that mean that you are using these at home, operated all by yourself? If so you are one of the few.

RonnieRoots wrote:Phew, for I while there I was afraid there were far more port lovers in this world than we previously knew of.

…with the commensurate affect on auction prices. Phew indeed.

It is possible to split threads; at least, I’ve seen it done elsewhere.

How much of this thread should be heaved overboard to Meaningless Drivel? (Clue: “none† is not the correct answer.)

Derek T. wrote:the original is around 600cm wide

I mis-read this first time. That’s huge!

KillerB wrote:send e-mails to everyone.

Where “everyone† means “everyone we actually know†, rather than everyone.

OK, we’re agreed. We do (or have already done) the cheap kosher things, and then let nature take its course.

Somewhere phpBB might allows settings for the HTML meta tags <title>…</title> <meta content="…" name=description> <meta content="…" name=keywords> where the ellipses should be set to the title of the thread, the first 180 characters of the first post, and the name of the thread ...

Sesquivertical

A term invented by yours truly. Like a double vertical, except that one of the houses is missing about half the years. From the Latin “sesqui-†, meaning one-and-a-half times.

Double vertical

Two houses from each of several years. E.g., Taylor 1908, Cockburn 1908, Taylor 1927, Cockburn 1927, Taylor 1963, Cockburn 1963, Taylor 1970, Cockburn 1970, Taylor 1985, Cockburn 1985. This can be thought of a a Taylor vertical, plus a Cockburn vertical, with matching years.

There are a variety of things. Somewhere phpBB might allows settings for the HTML meta tags <title>…</title> <meta content="…" name=description> <meta content="…" name=keywords> where the ellipses should be set to the title of the thread, the first 180 characters of the first pos...

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=152#152]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:TPF is now listed in The Open Directory Project (though might take a few hours to appear). When google next takes a copy of the ODP’s free data it will appear in the Google directory. Both of these will help the search engine rankings.

I’m taking credit for that good news.