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THE SEVENTIES Total Shipments Pipes 1870 Quite a fine vintage 42,696 1871 A failure 43,471 1872 A fairly good vintage 50,182 1873 A very good vintage 49,646 1874 A very poor vintage 56,531 1875 An excellent vintage 60,549 1876 A poor vintage 58,864 1877 An even poorer vintage than 1876 61,419 1878 ...

THE SIXTIES Total Shipments Pipes 1860 Fair to middling; wines rather too dry 27,860 1861 Fair but not fine; wines rather too light 26,920 1862 Good, sound wines, but too dry 29,710 1863 A splendid vintage 34,905 1864 A poor vintage 35,619 1865 A moderate vintage 39,209 1866 A bad vintage 40,507 18...

THE FIFTIES Total Shipments Pipes 1850 A very good vintage 38,487 1851 A remarkably fine vintage 32,947 1852 A good vintage 31,664 1853 A remarkably fine vintage 55,611 1854 A very fair vintage, in spite of the first 35,304 inroads of the oÃƒÂ¯dium 1855 A bad vintage: ruined by the oÃƒÂ¯dium 34,386...

THE FORTIES [Typist’s note: the best rendering of these tables possible in phpBB 3 is as a table, shown in a fixed-width typeface. The originals looked better.] Total Shipments Pipes 1840 A very fine vintage 33,190 1841 A complete failure 26,355 1842 A fine vintage 27,431 1843 An irregular vintage ...

[Starting on page 30] Port Port enjoys, in England, the privilege of being recognized and protected by the law of the land. Since 1916, no wine has been allowed to be sold in England under the name of Port, if not made from grapes grown in the Valley of the Douro, fortified by the addition of of br...

Vintagewise A Postscript to Saintsbury’s Notes On A Cellar Book by André L. Simon [ picture with the young Hugh Johnson ] , published by Michael Joseph Ltd of 26 Bloomsbury Street, London W.C.1 [now part of Penguin ] First published October 1945 Fifth (Revised) Impression 1950 This copy of the book...

Throughout the text, grey square parentheses [] indicate a comment by the typist. Links added by the typist, of course are mostly to Wikipedia. This thread contains the text of the chapter on Port in André L. Simon’s book Vintagewise , as typed by jdaw1. There will doubtless be errors in the typing,...

Members of :tpf: may well have in their possession old out-of-print books with chapters on or reference to Port. If it is reasonably believed that the © owner would not object please be encouraged to start threads with interesting excerpts from such works. If there is doubt, ask the © owner and then...

In the thread entitled [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1993]Vintagewise, by André L. Simon[/url], jdaw1 wrote:This thread contains the text of the chapter on Port in André L. Simon’s book Vintagewise, as typed by jdaw1. There will doubtless be errors in the typing, and readers may well have other comments. Please post corrections and comments in the thread Vintagewise: Corrections and Comments.

Small bug in both index es, to be fixed when next updated. They are sorted by the year field, in ascending order. So 1900 comes before 1927. So far, so good: oldest first. But this also means that “10Y† comes before “20Y†, so tawnies are youngest first. Ooops. Extra code will be added. I think 10...

Andy V wrote:Thank you for the silver choice..that red is totally annoying and hurts my eyes to try and read.

What annoys? Please be specific.

ThePortForumRed is now the standard setting for everybody.

Complaints in this thread please.

Known issues:

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Luc: if you want to play, then you have to play by the rules. There shouldn’t be a newline after the closing [/quote]. Examine carefully all the other quotations.

I have half-a-dozen T63s remaining. Not improving, but not obviously in urgent need of drinking. One drunk on the first anniversary: 13:30 decantation. At D+0 I tested a tiny sample that had been used to prime the decanter and the washed bottle. Brick red, edging towards brown :990033:. Nose very sp...

I favour going smaller still. Thoughts?

g-man wrote:Julian does this a couple of times towards the end of the night after the 3rd bottle of port.

Is that after my third bottle?

Split from in defense of Port at 10pm EST Fri 5 Sept 2008 by jdaw1.

A woefully off-topic distraction moved to What is a “head fake†?.

Not quite DRT. I think AHB asked the wrong question. He might disagree. How goes the help with the demonstration? I was inviting comment — though, as you intimate, hinting that it seems that the consensus is not unequivocally against me. Though, upon reflection, it could have been phrased more conc...

Ghastly poll bars believed repaired.

AHB wrote:help me to demonstrate to JDAW that he should be opening and drinking far more of his 1994 ports than clearly he is at the moment.

How goes the help with the demonstration?

DRT wrote:larger Reply and New Topic buttons

And New PM and Forward: done.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward R. Tufte, costing a mere $25.20, and cheap at twice the price. (Costing £26 at .co.uk: buy it in the USA.)

I think 10, 20, 30, 40 is a natural progression that one would find in any wine list. I think the contrast between that at date order for VPs is entirely acceptable and apropriate. So you want VPs oldest-to-youngest, but tawnies youngest-to-oldest. OK. Is that the consensus? And yes, Tufte is excel...

Saw that. Had already decided that it needed work — but precluded by baby-sitting.

If we’re down to squabbling about poll colours, does that mean it can become the default style.

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