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Roy Hersh wrote:Imagine if the consumption quota per capita from 50 years ago were in place today

But, in the UK at least, yesteryear’s ‟port and lemonade” is today’s ‟Chardonnay”.

And which method did you choose for the Vargellas logo?

Some early thoughts about placemats. GuildfordDemo-Normal appears to be a sans-serif typeface, in which the digit 1 is an unadorned vertical line. That means spacing between a 1 and any digit looks much wider than the spacing between any non-1 pair of digits. Me no likey. Also, the Circlearrays don...

AHB wrote:my otherwise miserable day.

Hopefully a once-off.

I am about to bathe the smelly dog.

Would Saturday work rather than ‘Firday’?

I live very few blocks from the (larger) downtown Murray’s.

If 30% of years are declared, what is the probability that a given year is part of a consecutive declaration? Easy maths. Pick a year that is declared: say x . There is a 70% chance that x ”“1 wasn’t declared, and a 70% chance that x +1 wasn’t declared, so a 49% chance that neither neighbour was dec...

First draft of placemats.

Please confirm people:

1. JDAW;
2. RMW = RonnieRoots;
3. MDK = Lady Roots;
4. FF = Jay;
5. ED = Eric;
6. JHG = Jeff;
7. JES = Josh;
8. JB = John;
9. MW = TBird.

Port has been summonsed from remote storage. We are underway.

Fair price for a 1975 is indistinguishable from zero.

As you are aware, we purchase private collections. We have found that some people store their wines in professional wine storage lockers, while others have custom built wine cellars in their home. We only purchase private collections that have been kept in temperature controlled storage, but some o...

DRT wrote:Anyone for a 43 bottle 1982 horizontal?

Not if it will cost me even the slightest awkwardness with the boss. I’ll save my special passes for horizontals of general declarations, or at least interesting years.

It is quite impressive that the port producers of 1970 knew exactly what you would find to be yummy 39 years after making their wines. That is a skill that not many people have. Actually, several people have it, but not in all years. They did in 1970 excellent vintage. Likewise 1963, 1966, and 1985...

I sometimes play bridge, and am writing (and subsequently editing) this post for my partner. (We aren’t very good.) Uncontested auction. 1NT: promises 12 to 14 points, and sum square suit lengths not exceeding 48. 1N 2C: a multi-puppet-Staymen, asking for five-card majors. Three likely meanings: wea...

A general declaration is a year such that, three decades later, there are at least a dozen houses that declared a port such that, if one of those ports was opened for me I would say something like ‟yummy thank you”.

This includes 1970, but excludes 1931, 1982 and 1975.

I once had a Saturday job at Dixons, a UK retailer of electronics. The name, Dixons, had been selected randomly from the telephone directory so the company is not necessarily related to the port of the same name owned by Morgan.

Please re-post in the Reference section. Maybe tidy the wording a little.

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Please do post a link to the fitting (and indeed the cable), so that others, considering son-of-port-garotte, know the best technology so far.

benread wrote:It is possible I may be able to give a D+48 hour opinion, but no promises! Edward has yet to have his late night feed.....

Is Edward likely to finish it all?

SushiNorth wrote:The garrotte does not stay hot for long.

A thicker cable would be better.

Wilco.

benread wrote:I think Jacob may take on this task for this tasting.

Works for me. Jacob: please confirm that it works for you.

Please to learn that it isn’t the port that’s Irish, only the location.

I shan’t ask what a NATO pilot is doing in a neutral country.