Jan 27th virtual tasting #portday

[g-man]

I'm going to try and set up a tinychat.com conference room for a virtual offline.

Anyone want to do a theme?

Prefereably a bottle we can all source and taste together.

[DRT]

What time of day are you planning to do this?

[g-man]

What time of day are you planning to do this?

Mmm might we coordinate where you guys in the UK set it up first and we start coming in and hopefully overlapping as the night progresses?

We can get a potential 10 hours coverage of port.

Not sure what kind of night owls you guys are over there across the pond.

[g-man]

Alrighty,

I bought a webcam and set up an account on tinychat.com
the chat room will be #TPFportday on friday the 27th.

I shall be on from 8pm EST onwards.

it's free and allows up to 10 people to video chat with 12 other people to voice chat.

In light of glenn's "warres sucks" comments, I'm tempted to pry open one of the 12 bottles of warre 2000 that I happen to have handy.

It should be readily available, cheap and hopefully coming out of dumb phase.

[DRT]

Not sure I'll still be awake at 1pm as I'll be staying at my sister's house that night but if I am I will try to join you.

I'll try to do it by video conference so that you can see that I am actually a real person and not just some kind of virtual being

[Glenn E.]

In light of glenn's "warres sucks" comments, I'm tempted to pry open one of the 12 bottles of warre 2000 that I happen to have handy.

I didn't say that! It's just not my style... along with Dow and Sandeman. I'm more of a Graham/Fonseca/Vesuvio kind of guy.

[DRT]

In light of glenn's "warres sucks" comments, I'm tempted to pry open one of the 12 bottles of warre 2000 that I happen to have handy.

I didn't say that! It's just not my style... along with Dow and Sandeman. I'm more of a Graham/Fonseca/Vesuvio kind of guy.

Sweet and voluptuous?

[g-man]

In light of glenn's "warres sucks" comments, I'm tempted to pry open one of the 12 bottles of warre 2000 that I happen to have handy.

I didn't say that! It's just not my style... along with Dow and Sandeman. I'm more of a Graham/Fonseca/Vesuvio kind of guy.

Sweet and voluptuous?

like a few other things in life that i like

[SushiNorth]

I'm in -- still trying to get tinychat to work tho

Update: all good -- i keep flash disabled most of the time. Will turn it on for tomorrow.

[g-man]

pretty straight forward

you need flash though

but once you have it up

you create a channel

or on friday you can join the channel.

FYI, everyone we're goign to virtual taste a warres 2000.

[SushiNorth]

pretty straight forward

you need flash though

but once you have it up

you create a channel

or on friday you can join the channel.

FYI, everyone we're goign to virtual taste a warres 2000.

Are we decanting live? Or should it be opened in advance (i bet it needs 24 hrs!)

[g-man]

pretty straight forward

you need flash though

but once you have it up

you create a channel

or on friday you can join the channel.

FYI, everyone we're goign to virtual taste a warres 2000.

Are we decanting live? Or should it be opened in advance (i bet it needs 24 hrs!)

we could do both

you decant 24 hours
and i decant live

[Glenn E.]

I'll take my netbook to the FTLOP #PortDay tasting and hope that the hotel has wifi that we can use. I've never used the webcam on it before, though, so I may not have any luck getting it to work.

It will probably be at least 6:30 Pacific time (9:30 Eastern) before I get there and get it set up, but I'll try to join the channel and see what happens!

[g-man]

I'll take my netbook to the FTLOP #PortDay tasting and hope that the hotel has wifi that we can use. I've never used the webcam on it before, though, so I may not have any luck getting it to work.

It will probably be at least 6:30 Pacific time (9:30 Eastern) before I get there and get it set up, but I'll try to join the channel and see what happens!

if you sign up for tinychat right now

it'll try and find yer webcam and you can see if it works

9:30 is within realm of us being up

[Glenn E.]

if you sign up for tinychat right now

it'll try and find yer webcam and you can see if it works

9:30 is within realm of us being up

Unfortunately I don't have my netbook with me at work. It's also not Microsoft-issued, so I can't use it with our wifi here at work anyway.

We can try when I get home tonight, though. I have your home and mobile numbers so I can give you a call if that works for you. Which one should I call?

[g-man]

you can drop me a note @ my mobile glenn

I tried last night

and it assigns you with a random link

I'll post the link so that everyone can connect tonight

probably get it set up @ 7-7:30

and will start decanting my warres 2000 @ 8pm EST

[Andy Velebil]

I would try this, as mentioned on ftlop, but that would require me to move my computer to another part of the house and rehook it all up. I need to get a laptop or something more portable...

[g-man]

laptops are very handy =)

hopefully I'll see you guys tonight!

[Glenn E.]

I completely forgot to call you last night, so hopefully we'll be able to get it set up tonight.

Of course it's all moot if the hotel doesn't have wifi.

[SushiNorth]

I completely forgot to call you last night, so hopefully we'll be able to get it set up tonight.

Of course it's all moot if the hotel doesn't have wifi.

If they have a free rewards/honors/advantage/etc program, sign up for it. They often come with complimentary wifi.

[g-man]

I completely forgot to call you last night, so hopefully we'll be able to get it set up tonight.

Of course it's all moot if the hotel doesn't have wifi.

If they have a free rewards/honors/advantage/etc program, sign up for it. They often come with complimentary wifi.

actually Sushi,

you wanan set up the tinychat room right now and post the link?

[SushiNorth]

ALL: TPF Virtual Tasting for PortDay is now live:
http://tinychat.com/sdui9

[Andy Velebil]

Online with the guys now

[Alex Bridgeman]

Josh, Ben, Andy and I are online now

[DRT]

Team TPF are online for #PortDay!

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[DRT]

Goodnight, guys. Sorry for the bad connection (and for forgetting to bring any Port with me )

Have fun

[SushiNorth]

We've been having a good time, tough to get other folks to join in beyond our group. A few of us decanted live, we're about to get going again.

[Glenn E.]

The wifi at the hotel wasn't free so we weren't able to get online. We did have a great evening though with Ports ranging from a Dalva "Lote" Miguel Castro Silva white Port to a 1977 Fonseca VP. 14 in all and 12 people so we were pretty happy with the turnout!

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[Cynthia J]

Sorry guys, late to the party and a little confused... exactly WHO were you calling sweet and voluptuous?

Also - is it possible to re-play the event, is it captured in some kind of video? Thanks.

[g-man]

Sorry guys, late to the party and a little confused... exactly WHO were you calling sweet and voluptuous?

Also - is it possible to re-play the event, is it captured in some kind of video? Thanks.

hahah nufortunately no

it'd be quite embarassing to see me with a bottle of milk in my hand feeding the baby while the other chaps were drinking port