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DRT wrote: ↑

09:23 Sun 16 Sep 2018

Ben Read (BMHR) has now confirmed he will be taking vacant seat.

Placemats updated (version = ‘201809161145’).
• Please could they be checked?
• Who will print?

Thank you to Tony for organising and bringing bottles, and to the shippers for providing samples. As Alex wrote, there seem to be two styles. One was rich and sweet and very much my type of port; the other emphasised acidity — which is less to my taste. For me the sweet wines were like a slightly li...

DRT wrote: who was added to the wait list twice by the former organiser.

I feel the sting of the slap.

Thank you.

Please print the stickies on the correct side. (That error has been seen before!)

Glenn E. wrote: ↑

01:53 Tue 11 Sep 2018

Safe to wait to place the group order until at least Oct 3, or will orders have closed by then?

Safe.

flash_uk wrote: ↑

19:15 Tue 11 Sep 2018

is missing Offley, Sandeman, Messias and Cachao.

Weren’t in first post. Added. Please re-check.

Who to print?

DRT wrote: ↑

21:27 Mon 10 Sep 2018

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

14:28 Fri 09 Sep 2016

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:What other Quinta d… V…s might need either of these?

Quinta de Ventozelo.

Already in.

jdaw1 wrote:Vz = Quinta de Ventozelo

Oops. {Blushes!}

Vr then.

Porto Valriz: ‘Vr’ or ‘Vz’?

Is the list of confirmed bottles correct? I’m about to make the sticky labels.

Current version at www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180912_2016s.pdf. Please peruse and comment, perhaps after answering this question.

Usual practice is to charge for signing. Since when have I been bound by usual practice? No charge — just bring to the event a bottle of great Port and the book, and I’ll happily sign. (My proper ink pen was cleaned and dried and put away about 22 years ago. It has been brought out of retirement, an...

Best part of this book is that i'm going to use it as a checklist and have my fellow port lovers signature bottles shared together! Great plan. Don’t forget to add the date drank. Terrible plan. There is little chance of tasting a large fraction of the ≤1900 Ports in the book. and will post on soci...

Signing? The books will be printed in Glasgow, and distributed from there. So not before arrival. But books brought to tastings can of course be signed. Decide in advance what you want written in the front. People: please do market this to wine aficionados you know. I really want it to be owned and ...

Port drinker and friends. As many of you know, for ages and ages I’ve been writing a book, Port Vintages . As George Sandeman says, “This is the definitive reference book on old Vintage Port. Every book that comes after will rely on it.” And — drum roll — it is now officially on sale! Please order a...

Note that there is an equivalent /ShapesInOvertitles parameter, and indeed equivalents for /ShapesInAbovetitles , /ShapesInBelowtitles and /ShapesInPlacenames (noting the latter has missing { } brackets in the definition compared with the peer definitions). Note ‘latter’ of two; ‘last’ of three or ...

g-man wrote: ↑

01:13 Tue 28 Aug 2018

The vintage stars themselves I find a little too cluttered for the overall appearance that I'm distracted with the fill and not the vintage date itself.

I suggest /ShapesInTitles false def as the perfect solution.

I've sold the ps2pdf.com domain and it is now being run by someone else. I continue to keep the old service as ps2pdf.org . I'm not even sure how your email made it to me as the new owner should be receiving email for the dot com domain but perhaps has not updated something. When I take the documen...

Link to Thomas V’s comment. I’ve asked the PS➝PDF folks for help.

I suggest organising it as a self-pour walk around tasting. Put all the bottles on some tables at one end of the Red Room and people just help themselves to what they want, sitting down and taking notes as they wish. Agreed. I’ll prepare sticky labels rather than the usual circles (when there’s a l...

Mrs W. has coped. Hurray!

I'm asking Mrs W. to update the placemats. If too late — if already printed — please say so.

CPR 1 wrote:I can print if needed?

Yes please.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

19:17 Thu 26 Jul 2018

draft of the placemats.

Good? Please check soon.

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

20:59 Fri 10 Aug 2018

Will I need to adopt?

I haven’t been Sussex recently. Please, can anybody help me?

I’ll make placemats on Sunday. Assuming blind.

Placemats can be made. Let me know names of people.