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by DRT
20:59 Sun 02 Jan 2022
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: A cork pusher
Replies: 101
Views: 21825

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 ...
by DRT
11:30 Sun 02 Jan 2022
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Replies: 189
Views: 82730

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...
by DRT
22:40 Sat 01 Jan 2022
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Replies: 27
Views: 9181

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 ...
by DRT
12:51 Sat 01 Jan 2022
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Replies: 27
Views: 9181

Re: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

nac wrote: 20:37 Thu 30 Dec 2021Quite keen to try the Stilton & Chilli Jam variant in addition.
Do we need a new thread on "Adulterated Pork Pies"? :shock:
by DRT
01:23 Wed 29 Dec 2021
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Replies: 27
Views: 9181

Re: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

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.
I shall be ordering more in the new year. An excellent recommendation, thank you.
by DRT
20:48 Sun 26 Dec 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Replies: 189
Views: 82730

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?"
by DRT
18:01 Sun 26 Dec 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Replies: 189
Views: 82730

Re: Port Vintages, Second Edition

jdaw1 wrote: 17:58 Sun 26 Dec 2021Should it move to Other Shippers, or actually not move at all? (I’m not advocating; I’m asking.)
Hence my "(for now)" qualifier and my subsequent question. Your answer suggests that Guedes should be moved to Other Shippers.
by DRT
17:51 Sun 26 Dec 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Replies: 189
Views: 82730

Re: Port Vintages, Second Edition

jdaw1 wrote: 17:11 Sun 26 Dec 2021 • A Hooper chapter would be six or seven pages;
= deserving of a chapter.
jdaw1 wrote: 17:11 Sun 26 Dec 2021• A Guedes chapter would likely be only one page, at most spilling onto the top part of a second page.
= it should stay where it is (for now).

Question: which shipper takes up the most space in Other Shippers?
by DRT
01:27 Thu 23 Dec 2021
Forum: Selling Port
Topic: Offer of Very Old Tawny Port in Bulk
Replies: 67
Views: 24604

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...
by DRT
01:23 Thu 23 Dec 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: What is this lion?
Replies: 2
Views: 1327

Re: What is this lion?

It is an instruction to only drink it with a Scotsman.
by DRT
01:16 Thu 23 Dec 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Replies: 189
Views: 82730

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 ...
by DRT
23:18 Wed 22 Dec 2021
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Replies: 27
Views: 9181

Re: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

winesecretary 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.
I might finally have found a Guild that would have me :D
by DRT
23:10 Wed 22 Dec 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Replies: 189
Views: 82730

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
by DRT
23:05 Wed 22 Dec 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Replies: 189
Views: 82730

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...
by DRT
22:55 Wed 22 Dec 2021
Forum: Selling Port
Topic: Offer of Very Old Tawny Port in Bulk
Replies: 67
Views: 24604

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...
by DRT
18:24 Sun 19 Dec 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port Vintages, Second Edition
Replies: 189
Views: 82730

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 ...
by DRT
23:56 Sat 18 Dec 2021
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Port and the Ashes
Replies: 13
Views: 17633

Re: Port and the Ashes

Alex Bridgeman wrote: 00:35 Mon 13 Dec 2021 And we were. A lot.
But perhaps not quite as disappointed as this week.
by DRT
23:39 Sat 18 Dec 2021
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Replies: 27
Views: 9181

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...
by DRT
23:33 Sun 12 Dec 2021
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Replies: 27
Views: 9181

Re: Leeson Hand Raised Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

This thread feels like an instruction.

I know what to do next.
by DRT
19:53 Wed 01 Dec 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
Replies: 128
Views: 18195

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...
by DRT
23:49 Tue 30 Nov 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
Replies: 128
Views: 18195

Re: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?

Have we gone off-topic yet?
by DRT
23:41 Tue 30 Nov 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
Replies: 128
Views: 18195

Re: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?

MigSU wrote: 23:37 Tue 30 Nov 2021 The next live tasting will be a tense affair.
They always are. Think of a Game of Thrones war council and you'll be getting close :lol:
by DRT
23:33 Tue 30 Nov 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
Replies: 128
Views: 18195

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...
by DRT
23:25 Tue 30 Nov 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
Replies: 128
Views: 18195

Re: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?

MigSU wrote: 23:04 Tue 30 Nov 2021
Glenn E. wrote: 23:02 Tue 30 Nov 2021 the IVDP website seems to change in-between every zombie outbreak.
I think they know of your feuds, and are now just messing with you lot.
"You lot"? Oh dear. You do not realise you have been assimilated to the collective. Welcome to our world 123374.
by DRT
22:18 Tue 30 Nov 2021
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Is the secondary market price for Port changing?
Replies: 128
Views: 18195

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...