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If you'd like, or we can just let this whole thread gather dust here and I'll post your repunctuated version to the Offlines forum.

Offlines are events we organise to meet up and drink Port (or sometimes a lesser beverage). You may, of course, forego the drinking and just meet, but we’re sure that drinking would be more fun. Provided for your amusement are some answers to common questions about these events: Q: What are tastings...

OK, i'm back. Rather than make this a component of the 2008 guide (and thus in need of frequent repostings), I'll post it as a fresh item and will add a Q: What events have you had so far? What's coming up? Our 2008 upcoming and recent offlines Our 2007 offlines (do we have such a thing?) I'll volun...

I recently saw prices of 25-40/bottle for some of the smaller houses (1994-2000). Rozes, offley, ferreira, martinez, and noval-silval were represented, along with a couple SQs related to them. if that interests you, let me know. I'm hesitant to reveal the place just yet as I have a little shopping t...

How about a sticky at the top of the offline forum with a Q&A since we'll be getting some new folks around here (hopefully) focused on offlines... I am using my own Q's to jdaw1 as a starting point -- he shared answers in a private email and my apologies for making them public (i tweaked anythin...

...{big snip}... So that was a big response (thanks roy) but it boils down to a basic reality of wine tasting: Everyone's got their own opinions, and those with opinions closer to our own are more trusted on wines we have yet to taste. i think the case was well made that there isn't bias in Roy's T...

Or lack thereof is apparently affecting Portugal as well. Supposedly there is plenty of water in the reservoirs but the season is often defined more by the rain levels than the irrigation (i think...).

If any member here chooses to make a statement that sets out the terms under which their content can be used by others then, in my view, that is for them to do themselves. K. Let's pretend for one moment that it was SushiNorth or Jdaw1 who had started the Cockburn Vertical thread on TPF and I had p...

It is being imposed on third parties wishing to quote what members have posted here. How do you plan to enforce that? For instance, my post on FTLOP that links to the Cockburn Vertical thread on TPF could easily have used the introductory words that AHB posted on TPF (it doesn't, but just imaging i...

To be honest I think that the tasting notes are quite important It is the person or person's who've spent the time putting them together for this website ie Julian and others who should make the decision.I personally don't have a problem with it because I have put in no effort apart from my own tas...

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Sorry, we don't need this. People are welcome to join and participate here simply for their interest in Port. They should not need to understand or adhere to any of this stuff. Participants don't need to understand any of this stuff, this stuff is for people re-using content from the site. For exam...

The proposal is as follows. Everything I put here remains © me. :TPF: owns nothing. Copyright is dangerous territory. Legally, no-one can repost copyright unless explicit permission is obtained from the copyright owner (and retained by the reposter), and it needs to be done each and every time th...

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Well this thread got moving quick. Rather than copyright, i would suggest Creative Commons. In particular, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike, where we define the attribution as "The Port Forum" + Author's Username. You can read more about creative commons, here: http://creativecommo...

Shall we start a separate thread for the proposed discussion of content re-use? I think that may go a little ways to solving some of the (non-Roy) issues brought up here. For example, if the offlines needed to be described as *The Port Forum: Croft Vertical Offline Tasting announced* The Port Forum ...

Here are the Reidel Black Glasses,

But pray tell, what the heck is a "Port sipper" ?? I saw them in NY the other day... i think that's a straw.

I could bring a 1997, 2000 and a 2003 as well. Axel i checked my cellar and I have no 2000/2003 cockburns. So if hard working organizers, AHB and Derek, also agree then I say bring at least the 2000 and 2003 so we can complete the 3-centuries of Port. I just saw some 2000 Cockburn around for a reas...

Seen on the shelves of Manor House Cellar (61 West 23rd Street, Sounds like we were in the same neighborhood today. Wish I'd known, i had a bottle of cheap QH 2000 LBV in my backpack and was searching for a place (and people) to drink it with. Wound up opening the Vino Verde at Kasumi Den (i am tes...

I would propose that people who come to our offlines be members here who have introduced themselves on the introduction forum. Good God no. Many of our off-line attendees are friends of site members. The nature of this site is very open and this puts an enormous restriction on the thing that we do ...

How does one obtain an invitation to such a “port party†? Just like that :) This one may be a little tricky timing-wise as I want to have it during a damp summer day ("Port in a storm" party) in June, so participants were asked to keep an eye on weather.com. The plan is to open the SWC77...

Definitely interested. While not even close to an expert, I have personally found that with sashimi, daiginjos suit me better. perhaps we can add some to the tasting? Sounds like one vote for sushi/sashimi and one for adding a dai ginjo to the mix :) FYI, i'm friendly with mr urbansake.com so I'll ...

1. If such threads are started by known port lovers, they should be allowed in the tasting-arranging section. 2. Yes, I’m very interested in a saké tasting (does the transliteration really have an accent?), as might be the wife. I have no idea what I want to taste: would you be willing to choose an...

I'm planning a small port party soon (gotta open one of those SWC 77's already :) ) and was looking for puns or sayings with port in them. This brought me to bartlett's, whereupon I took to investigating quotes with port wine in them... Some fun ones: Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but...

As I mentioned when I came in here a while ago, my other alcoholic hobby is japanese saké. It is the opposite of port in many ways: its brewing process bears as much in common with beer as it does wine, its not even made of grapes, its light on the tongue, and -- with rare, aged (koshu) exceptions -...