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- 20:59 Sun 02 Jan 2022
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: A cork pusher
- Replies: 101
- Views: 23106
Re: A cork pusher
I like the idea. Have you measured hundreds of bottles across many decades to identify 15mm as the optimum diameter of the pusher or is it a guess? Is 1mm thick enough to be durable when used by clumsy middle-aged men? Are the pistons also to be made of steel or perhaps something more forgiving and ...
- 11:30 Sun 02 Jan 2022
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
- Replies: 189
- Views: 102337
Re: Port Vintages, Second Edition
The Addendum has a lovely two-page essay by John Crisp, a retired wine merchant and member of the Peterborough Port Club. There isn’t a chapter in which it belongs. I think it is to be omitted from the second edition. Any passionate disagreements? John Crisp's essay could be placed as an introducti...
- 22:40 Sat 01 Jan 2022
- Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
- Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12466
Re: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
The 910g pie is not stated to be "hand-raised", which I think refers to the method of forming the pastry and the shape of the pie rather than the welfare of the pigs. I believe the meat in both was the same. The pastry on the tiny little 454g "hand-raised" pie seemed crisper but ...
- 12:51 Sat 01 Jan 2022
- Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
- Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12466
- 01:23 Wed 29 Dec 2021
- Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
- Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12466
Re: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
I shall be ordering more in the new year. An excellent recommendation, thank you.winesecretary wrote: ↑09:24 Fri 24 Dec 2021 You may not be surprised to hear that this pie has just won first prize in the pie competition at the Melton Mowbray Fat Stock Show.
Again.
- 20:48 Sun 26 Dec 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
- Replies: 189
- Views: 102337
Re: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Should the cut-off be measured in pages or known vintages? You might have scant information on 20 vintages that takes up 3 pages, or a few interesting stories on 5 vintages that take up 5 pages/ Which is more worthy of a chapter in a book that aims to tell us "Who declared what?"
- 18:01 Sun 26 Dec 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
- Replies: 189
- Views: 102337
- 17:51 Sun 26 Dec 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
- Replies: 189
- Views: 102337
Re: Port Vintages, Second Edition
= deserving of a chapter.
= it should stay where it is (for now).
Question: which shipper takes up the most space in Other Shippers?
- 01:27 Thu 23 Dec 2021
- Forum: Selling Port
- Topic: Offer of Very Old Tawny Port in Bulk
- Replies: 67
- Views: 30488
Re: Offer of Very Old Tawny Port in Bulk
the "Angel's Share" (2%-5% per annum depending on storage and climatic conditions) This is the part that I'm coming to believe is not completely accurate. The Angel's Share may be 3% at the very beginning with a new barrel, but old well-seasoned barrels are much lower, and a barrel that h...
- 01:23 Thu 23 Dec 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: What is this lion?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1396
Re: What is this lion?
It is an instruction to only drink it with a Scotsman.
- 01:16 Thu 23 Dec 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
- Replies: 189
- Views: 102337
Re: Port Vintages, Second Edition
>> entries that are unchanged from Edition 1 >> entries that have been improved >> new entries I’m rejecting this for several reasons. • Nobody remembers the book well enough to need paragraph-by-paragraph ‘is this changed’. • Multiple paragraphs have already been changed. It would be lots of work ...
- 23:18 Wed 22 Dec 2021
- Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
- Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12466
Re: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
I might finally have found a Guild that would have mewinesecretary wrote: ↑13:00 Sun 19 Dec 2021 I am even more deeply gratified.
The description of a 1lb pork pie as 'snack sized' would obtain one entry to the honourable order of pork pie trencherpersons on the spot.
- 23:10 Wed 22 Dec 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
- Replies: 189
- Views: 102337
Re: Port Vintages, Second Edition
A suggestion - when considering identifiers/markers for entries in the shipper chapters perhaps have different markers that enable the reader to easily identify:
>> entries that are unchanged from Edition 1
>> entries that have been improved
>> new entries
>> entries that are unchanged from Edition 1
>> entries that have been improved
>> new entries
- 23:05 Wed 22 Dec 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
- Replies: 189
- Views: 102337
Re: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Dislike for Minion here; I generally find text printed/displayed in fonts where parts of the letter are very thin are much less readable (less of an issue in italic and bold variants, since the finest part of the line tends not to be so fine). Serif fonts often have more line width variation within...
- 22:55 Wed 22 Dec 2021
- Forum: Selling Port
- Topic: Offer of Very Old Tawny Port in Bulk
- Replies: 67
- Views: 30488
Re: Offer of Very Old Tawny Port in Bulk
The wine which the family is seeking to shift came from a single pipe, laid down they believe circa 1900-1910; the lot of it was bottled in 1993 as a defence against evaporation. Most of the 350 bottles remain in storage at the quinta (if I understood correctly). At the risk of sparking an old deba...
- 18:24 Sun 19 Dec 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
- Replies: 189
- Views: 102337
Re: Ground has been broken
I think one of the things that make Port Vintages such a special and credible resource is the "with evidence" qualifier in the title. Having list of things with no evidence or statement about the source of each data item is simply repeating what wine authors have done for two centuries or ...
- 23:56 Sat 18 Dec 2021
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Port and the Ashes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20975
Re: Port and the Ashes
But perhaps not quite as disappointed as this week.
- 23:39 Sat 18 Dec 2021
- Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
- Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12466
Re: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
This thread feels like an instruction. It was an instruction. I know what to do next. I knew that you would know. Two days ago I took delivery of 4 x 454g and 1 x 910g Leeson's Pork Pies. This evening I sampled a morsel or two of one of the snack-sized pies. It is all that Julian described and more...
- 23:33 Sun 12 Dec 2021
- Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
- Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12466
Re: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
This thread feels like an instruction.
I know what to do next.
I know what to do next.
- 19:53 Wed 01 Dec 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19039
Re: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
@ JacobH and @ Doggett - ideally we would put to bed the thread drift not only by assessing what port properly is allowed to be made (and allowed to be sold) now but also what was properly allowed to be made (and allowed to be sold) at any one point in the last 100 years. A bit like the function on...
- 23:49 Tue 30 Nov 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19039
Re: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
Have we gone off-topic yet?
- 23:41 Tue 30 Nov 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19039
- 23:33 Tue 30 Nov 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19039
Re: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
the matter is settled until the other side provides proof. Even once. Because that documentation has never been found. This. Whilst it is difficult or impossible to find definitive laws covering all aspects of this debate, and acknowledging that there are exceptions and unusual circumstances to con...
- 23:25 Tue 30 Nov 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19039
Re: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
"You lot"? Oh dear. You do not realise you have been assimilated to the collective. Welcome to our world 123374.
- 22:18 Tue 30 Nov 2021
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19039
Re: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
Single Quinta Vintage Port These Vintages are unique in that they are not only the product of a single harvest but also of a single quinta, or wine estate, which makes them truly exceptional. We're going round in circles here - that is neither a regulation nor unambiguous. - Where is the law that G...