Warres Vertical October 2nd

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Warres Vertical October 2nd

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On October 2nd at 7pm at the RAF Club in London a Warre's vertical will be held. Tom and Wolfgang very generously supplied the wines.

We will taste the following VPs of Warre: 94,91,85, 83, 80, 77, 75, 70, 66, 63, 60, 58, 55, 52 and 47.

Participation fee will be 100 GBP (115 EUR) and will include the wines, corc fee and room charges and a 3 dish-dinner that we will be starting with. All additional drinks will be charged.

Confirmed attendees are so far:

Tom
Wolfgang
Julian
Dirk
Derek
Alex B
Alex K
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Chris Gee
Ben
Jacob H
Enrico
Ghandi

Please let me know early if you intend to spend the night there (room fee will be around 70 GBP).

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Updated with Jacob
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updated with Ben confirmed

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Axel,
Can you put me down as tentative. I need to work out logistics, but I should be able to make this as I should be heading through London on my way to Oporto that week. I'll keep you updated as things progress. thanks
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I ll save you a seat. Good to have police protection at the tasting. I do not know wether you heard the stuff going on around the pirates in Africa, but to arrest the pirates legaly on a german frigate you need to have policemen on board as well. We could bomb and destroy poop on our own, but not arrest any. That makes sense, doesnt it?

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Axel P wrote:I ll save you a seat. Good to have police protection at the tasting. I do not know wether you heard the stuff going on around the pirates in Africa, but to arrest the pirates legaly on a german frigate you need to have policemen on board as well. We could bomb and destroy poop on our own, but not arrest any. That makes sense, doesnt it?

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If you put me in the backseat of your plane, does that count as "policeman onboard?" If so, they we can fly around and take care of those pesky little critters :lol: Oh yeah, can we take a small detour and fly into the Douro for a visit. In the jet it won't take long to get there and I'm sure we can figure out a way to stash some Port on board to quench our thirst after all our hard work :mrgreen: :P :lol:
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The ammo box of the cannons holds exactly 2 cases of 6 btl. ea of Vesuvio (thanks to the Symingtons to keep these measurements in mind when they constructed the case).

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Axel P wrote:The ammo box of the cannons holds exactly 2 cases of 6 btl. ea of Vesuvio (thanks to the Symingtons to keep these measurements in mind when they constructed the case).

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Very nice of the Symington's to take that into consideration...now if only they could design a case that fits into the saddle bag of my police motorcycle
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Andy V wrote:
Axel P wrote:The ammo box of the cannons holds exactly 2 cases of 6 btl. ea of Vesuvio (thanks to the Symingtons to keep these measurements in mind when they constructed the case).

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Very nice of the Symington's to take that into consideration...now if only they could design a case that fits into the saddle bag of my police motorcycle
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Well, mine has about 150 kN.

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The placemats, or at least a draft thereof, are at www.jdawiseman.com/port/20091002_warre.pdf. Comment welcome.
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Would there be any chance of replacing some of the Palantino with Chevalier Open (the typeface I think is currently used for the Warre logo)?

(And as a Mac user, shouldn't you be using Helvetica rather than Arial? :-P)
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That’ll cost me $20. I’ll PM what fonts I already have.
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jdaw1 wrote:That’ll cost me $20. I’ll PM what fonts I already have.
[reply forwarded to a PM to avoid the wrath of Wolfgang by continuing here]
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I would not say wrath; with reference to the elaborate discussion in the preparations for the Vargellathon I was rather confused and feared initially my English was not good enough to understand the deeper meaning behind the thread. After Alex and you kindly agreed that you also felt it went a bit beyond I was relieved and as far as I remember openly admitted that these sort of technical outbursts should be more controlled.
Again I am very happy that Julian and you work out the placemates. Apologies, I am a bit too focussed on trying/drinking wines (do also not read a lot, too much focused on practical application :D ) and do avoid looking into these very necessary things. :(
Especially since they make the tasting so much nicer. :!:
With regards to the Warre vertical I must say I found the Arial issue funny, since I have a "Julian" at work (though I admit not in the same league as him ) who made me change to use Arial (used New Times Roman before which now I admit is horrible).

Hope Julian is now not to cross with me :wink:

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Updated!

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Axel,
I've not been put into the list and don't want to get left out. Can you add me in, thanks :D
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The friend has said that he won't be able to confirm until much later in the year (September) and has therefore suggested that we offer his place to others but he will ask if he turns out to be free and can join us.
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I've been contemplating a trip to the UK, for port drinking among other reasons, but sadly this is too close to a holiday. Will keep my eyes on your tastings, though :)
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Hey Josh,

we will have one on you, though.

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Andy, for some reason I did not put you in the forum-list yet, but do have you in my internal excel-list. Sorry, but always remember: we will leave no one behind!

So, as from now on you are as well in the official list, too.

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Very cool, thanks Axel.
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What are the first letters of the surnames of Dirk, Enrico, and Maggie?
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Dirk B. Enrico M. and Maggie R.

Thanks for all the work, Julian.

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