tpf book of tasting notes?

[g-man]

I looked and realized we have gathered notes on over 100 years of ports in a short period of time along with reviews of the various events that we have attended.

Sounds like it may make a fun project to put together a book full of anecdotes and tasting notes.

Perhaps at the 5 year mark? what say you guys?

[JacobH]

I looked and realized we have gathered notes on over 100 years of ports in a short period of time along with reviews of the various events that we have attended.

Sounds like it may make a fun project to put together a book full of anecdotes and tasting notes.

Perhaps at the 5 year mark? what say you guys?

Sounds good to me. What do you have in mind? Reproducing all the tasting notes might be tricky so the question would be what sort of selection to go for.

[g-man]

I looked and realized we have gathered notes on over 100 years of ports in a short period of time along with reviews of the various events that we have attended.

Sounds like it may make a fun project to put together a book full of anecdotes and tasting notes.

Perhaps at the 5 year mark? what say you guys?

Sounds good to me. What do you have in mind? Reproducing all the tasting notes might be tricky so the question would be what sort of selection to go for.

Just time consuming but possible, but I would go with completion. Hit up the entire population.

[Alex Bridgeman]

I have no idea how much work or cost would be involved, but I think a book of our tasting notes and offline reviews would be a terrific idea as a way to celebrate our 5th anniversary.

Does anyone have any idea how difficult this might be to make happen?

Does anyone know when our 5th anniversary might be?

[JacobH]

I have no idea how much work or cost would be involved, but I think a book of our tasting notes and offline reviews would be a terrific idea as a way to celebrate our 5th anniversary.

Does anyone have any idea how difficult this might be to make happen?

Designing the book, setting the content and getting it printed is all quite easy and not too expensive. We would also need agreements from the authors of the threads to allow us to use the work, which may not be too difficult. The biggest problem would be editing the copy since a lot of threads and discussions might not easily be turned into a book form.

Does anyone know when our 5th anniversary might be?

Thread 1 no longer being extant, thread 2 was created on Wednesday, Jun 20th, 2007 at 9:15 pm.

[DRT]

Admin recently sent me a spreadsheet containing all of the posts I have created in the TN section of the Forum. I plan to spend some time going through that data to clean it up and create a database of my TNs (minus all the conversational drivel and smilies) so that I can ask Jacob to make me one of these.

If everyone who was willing to contribute TN's towards this proposed venture of publishing a book does what I am about to do with my own data we could amalgamate the cleaned-up notes into one database so that a clever person could generate a book as described above. That would get around the problem that some of the people who have created or commented on notes either might not want to be included in the book or simply are no longer around here.

I'm not sure our review threads would have the same appeal in a book. They tend to be very conversational with lots of "in jokes" that will not translate easily in printed form. For that reason I would suggest sticking to just TN's or, if it is decided to include the reviews, someone will have to volunteer to read and re-write them into something that would make sense in a book.

[DRT]

I have just thought of a small problem with all of this.

What do we do with the royalties? It might be difficult to split £1 between forty-seven people in five different currencies

[g-man]

I have just thought of a small problem with all of this.

What do we do with the royalties? It might be difficult to split £1 between forty-seven people in five different currencies

quite easy,

we set up a general tpf trust fund that allows members to draw from it XXXX timesa year to contribute to costs for bottles during tastings.

if the royalties become big enough, I'll happily run it for the discounted 1% of asset 10% of profits fee.

[JacobH]

If everyone who was willing to contribute TN's towards this proposed venture of publishing a book does what I am about to do with my own data we could amalgamate the cleaned-up notes into one database so that a clever person could generate a book as described above. That would get around the problem that some of the people who have created or commented on notes either might not want to be included in the book or simply are no longer around here.

Yes, that would work. Though a commemorative book could be produced in a more considered way than those tasting note handbooks; the purpose of which was to be able to produce something semi-automatically.

I'm not sure our review threads would have the same appeal in a book. They tend to be very conversational with lots of "in jokes" that will not translate easily in printed form. For that reason I would suggest sticking to just TN's or, if it is decided to include the reviews, someone will have to volunteer to read and re-write them into something that would make sense in a book.

If someone was feeling generous with his or her time, he could always go through and produce a brief record of each tasting containing (e.g.) date; participants; location; Port; Wine-of-the-Night; other interesting information &c. which could then be included in an Annexe.

What do we do with the royalties? It might be difficult to split £1 between forty-seven people in five different currencies

Although I am ever-optimistic, the chances of there being royalties in this seem to remain low!