London 15 May - 1970 tasting

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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby Christopher » 17:51 Mon 07 May 2012

Please count me in, I can bring a Fonseca 70.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby RAYC » 17:57 Mon 07 May 2012

Christopher wrote:Please count me in, I can bring a Fonseca 70.


Oh...alright then, I suppose...

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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby DRT » 18:45 Mon 07 May 2012

jdaw1 wrote:Dow is already in. Adopters might require?
Me please!
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby jdaw1 » 22:12 Mon 07 May 2012

First draft of the placemats.
  • Executive decisions have been made about what AHB and RAYC are bringing, and what DRT is adopting from me. Please verify or correct.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby AHB » 07:20 Tue 08 May 2012

jdaw1 wrote:First draft of the placemats.
  • Executive decisions have been made about what AHB and RAYC are bringing, and what DRT is adopting from me. Please verify or correct.

I'm assuming the draft was prepared before Christopher voiced his intention to join us.

RO70? Is this the Carvalhas that won wine of the night in April last year?
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby RonnieRoots » 09:10 Tue 08 May 2012

jdaw1 wrote:First draft of the placemats.
  • Executive decisions have been made about what AHB and RAYC are bringing, and what DRT is adopting from me. Please verify or correct.
Did you incorporate the fact that I'm left-handed into the placemats?
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby RonnieRoots » 09:10 Tue 08 May 2012

Christopher wrote:Please count me in, I can bring a Fonseca 70.

Excellent! I'll amend the first post.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby jdaw1 » 09:32 Tue 08 May 2012

And, this evening, I’ll fix the placemats to add Christopher and mirror Ronnie.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby DRT » 10:25 Tue 08 May 2012

jdaw1 wrote:First draft of the placemats.
  • Executive decisions have been made about what AHB and RAYC are bringing, and what DRT is adopting from me. Please verify or correct.
Fine with me, thanks.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby jdaw1 » 17:53 Tue 08 May 2012

AHB wrote:RO70? Is this the Carvalhas that won wine of the night in April last year?

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I really don’t like the uneven heights of the digits in “1970” — presumably mis-typset lower-case digits.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby jdaw1 » 17:54 Tue 08 May 2012

Updated draft of the placemats.
  • Ronnie left’d;
  • +CMAG and +F70;
  • RLC’s bottle still undecided.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby jdaw1 » 21:00 Wed 09 May 2012

Alex: I now have a W70 in London, as well as D70 and RO70. Derek could adopt the W70, and he and I jointly bring the RO70.

But only if you have something other than Warre that you could bring. Do you?

Or we could just suffer the hardship of a second Warre 1970.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby RAYC » 12:55 Fri 11 May 2012

THRA is in and has declared Graham.

If felt necessary, this would be a nice occasion for me to bring the RO Carvahlas (gifted to me last year very generously by THRA) to taste alongside the regular RO.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby jdaw1 » 20:45 Fri 11 May 2012

Placemats will be updated on Sunday night.

Yes please to the ROC.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby RonnieRoots » 11:20 Sat 12 May 2012

RAYC wrote:THRA is in and has declared Graham.

If felt necessary, this would be a nice occasion for me to bring the RO Carvahlas (gifted to me last year very generously by THRA) to taste alongside the regular RO.

Very good, this is beginning to look like a proper tasting. 88)
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby jdaw1 » 18:43 Sun 13 May 2012

Updated draft of the placemats.
  • +G from THRA;
  • +ROC from RAYC from THRA;
  • RLC’s bottle still undecided.
Please could somebody review and approve?

Cookie: a detail is awaited from you.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby AHB » 20:20 Sun 13 May 2012

jdaw1 wrote:Please could somebody review and approve?

I have reviewed and am happy to approve - but could we have the psychedelic lines in colour just to really make the eyes ache?

Who will print? I can print if I do so tomorrow but will not be able to print on Tuesday.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby jdaw1 » 20:27 Sun 13 May 2012

I can print in B&W, even late on Tuesday.

(If you want the lines zapped, say so clearly.)
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby Cookie » 21:48 Sun 13 May 2012

My contribution will be a Sandeman '70 and if there is no objection I would like to invite Sandy to join us and he will contribute an OBV'70.
Hope that is acceptable to all.
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby jdaw1 » 21:57 Sun 13 May 2012

Updated draft of the placemats.
  • +S from Cookie THRA;
  • +OBV, from additional guest NDS.
Please could somebody review and approve?
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby RAYC » 12:54 Mon 14 May 2012

We now seem to be missing the squiggly lines...
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby AHB » 13:23 Mon 14 May 2012

jdaw1 wrote:(If you want the lines zapped, say so clearly.)

I like the lines. I don't want them zapped.

But I want them in colour for maximum impact!
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby AHB » 13:24 Mon 14 May 2012

jdaw1 wrote:I can print in B&W, even late on Tuesday.

I will leave you to print
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby RAYC » 14:07 Mon 14 May 2012

AHB wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:(If you want the lines zapped, say so clearly.)

I like the lines. I don't want them zapped.

But I want them in colour for maximum impact!


I second that.

As a compromise: how about coloured lines, printed in black and white?
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Re: London 15 May - 1970 tasting

Postby jdaw1 » 15:20 Mon 14 May 2012

Lines look good with four glasses per page. Not so much with five or six. Hence zapped.

Do you want to have three pages, each of four glasses? That starts to use a lot of table space.
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