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It was a hard night at my first job on Wall St, but it turned out to be a very memorable night too. A good friend was going to london to work permanently so we went out in style. It was the night I had my first bottle of port, Fonseca 1983.

Matter of fact, they still have it in their cellars. Where was I?

The Rat City Roller Girls next roll-off?

The girls may be portly, but it wasn't where I had my first port

I was still on Glenn's question

Chez Wiseman?

DRT wrote:Chez Wiseman?

I believe I met julian in the winter of 07...

I am not that young =)

Jeff: you owe the world a question.

jdaw1 wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:They play, and usually beat, their traditional enemy.

Wasn’t so wrong.

They do play a game, but an intra-squad game can hardly be compared to playing their traditional enemy, the Oklahoma Sooners. (Young 'uns who don't understand tradition might attempt to quibble that Nebraska's traditional enemy is Colorado. That, however, was a manufactured rivalry created by Colorado in an attempt to give their team something more to strive for during the season. It is but a pale imitation of the old Nebraska-Oklahoma rivalry of the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s up through the creation of the Big XII. Better dead than Sooner red.)

g-man wrote:It was a hard night at my first job on Wall St, but it turned out to be a very memorable night too. A good friend was going to london to work permanently so we went out in style. It was the night I had my first bottle of port, Fonseca 1983.

Matter of fact, they still have it in their cellars. Where was I?

Nick & Stef's? (A wild guess with no research.)

jdaw1 wrote:Jeff: you owe the world a question.

that's the incorrect answer.

Glenn E. wrote:

g-man wrote:It was a hard night at my first job on Wall St, but it turned out to be a very memorable night too. A good friend was going to london to work permanently so we went out in style. It was the night I had my first bottle of port, Fonseca 1983.

Matter of fact, they still have it in their cellars. Where was I?

Nick & Stef's? (A wild guess with no research.)

nopenope, but I did give at count 3 hints already .

If one of your clues is a little misleading (though not necessarily wrong), the answer might be Delmonico’s.

[I hope not: I don’t have a question to hand.]

Close, but no cigar.

Delmonico's port selection is actually kind of weak.

Smith and Wollensky?

AHB wrote:Smith and Wollensky?

starting to get colder

Uncle Jack's?

I don't see any Port on their wine list, though, so probably not...

Glenn E. wrote:Uncle Jack's?

I don't see any Port on their wine list, though, so probably not...

this place has their wine list online and the fonseca is definitely there =)..

Ooh... I have another guess, but I must wait...

Angelo and Maxies? (Mostly to help Glenn.)

No, your first guess was the best guess to date Julian

Solera?

If it's not the answer, you should check it out. They have a 1983 Fonseca on their wine list.

A restaurant on or near Wall Street

The Wall Street Port Lover's Restaurant?

Harry’s.

From conversation over at tonight’s tasting, I know that this is correct. So here is a foretelling of the next question. When printing the placemats for the splendid 18th-April New-York tasting, a small error was observed. The error was too small, or I too lazy, for it to be repaired. So it stayed. What was the error on the placemats?

indeed.. cheater .... http://www.harrysnyc.com/
a fantastic steakhouse if anyone needs a recommendation for a place to have a fine cut of beef and harry's personal cellar for sale.

jdaw1 wrote:Harry’s.

From conversation over at tonight’s tasting, I know that this is correct. So here is a foretelling of the next question. When printing the placemats for the splendid 18th-April New-York tasting, a small error was observed. The error was too small, or I too lazy, for it to be repaired. So it stayed. What was the error on the placemats?

You have 12 tick boxes in the bottom right hand corner but only 11 bottles

When printing the placemats for the splendid 18th-April New-York tasting, a small error was observed. The error was too small, or I too lazy, for it to be repaired. So it stayed. What was the error on the placemats?

Alex K: wrong, the check boxes are for water, not bottles of port. Water check boxes were fine.

The T63 was misplaced, not in strict chronological order on the placements, as is your normal practice.

AHB wrote:The T63 was misplaced, not in strict chronological order on the placements, as is your normal practice.

No. That was done so that the 1977s all touch, and likewise the 1966s.

There is an extra placemat with the name "Alex" in the footer. This could either be an error in including a name from an ealier use of the same code or should have been "AHB" so that he could have used it for his Fonseca 1966.

DRT wrote:There is an extra placemat with the name "Alex" in the footer. This could either be an error in including a name from an ealier use of the same code or should have been "AHB" so that he could have used it for his Fonseca 1966.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=23773#p23773]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Location? Today the Wisemans lunched at Petite Abeille, 401 East 20th Street at First Avenue NY 10010-7501, ☏ 212 727 1505, and I discussed with helpful manager Alex the possibility of our being hosted there.

No.


Plainly visible on the front page, and not even in or part of the circles. Recall error described as ‟small” even if plainly visible without zoom.

Is it that you did not use DRT's approach to placemats and failed to turn on all patterns and fills?

jdaw1 wrote:and not even in or part of the circles

So no.

"Classic years of Taylor, Fonseca, Warre" should read "Classic years of Taylor, Fonseca, and Warre" shouldn't it?

You omitted "at First Avenue" from the address?

Glenn has found the piece containing the error, so I’ll accept that. Though my concern was really the failure of Title Case: ‟Classic Years!”.

Wasn’t a good question. Next!

My credit cards were once suspended while I was in Dublin. My banks allowed various small purchases - restaurants, tours, and souvenirs - but balked when I attempted to purchase a large amount of equipment for a traditional Irish sport that happens to have a league in Seattle.

Which sport?

Hurling?

That was either far too easy, or I've posted about it before.

Correct. JDAW is up again.

Glenn E. wrote:That was either far too easy, or I've posted about it before.

Google quickly narrowed it down to two possibilities.

What port am I drinking now? Classic house neither Symington nor Taylor-Fladgate, classic year for many names, though not one showing this house at its best.

Sandeman 1970

Royal Oporto 1977?

DRT wrote:Sandeman 1970

One of house and year is correct.

Glenn E. wrote:Royal Oporto 1977?

Neither correct. (And is RO really a classic house?)

Sandeman 1966

jdaw1 wrote:is RO really a classic house?)

Define "classic".

DRT wrote:Sandeman 1966

Neither house nor year correct.

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:is RO really a classic house?)

Define "classic".

A house I tasted before I reached the age of 22.

Come on Glenn - I've made it easier now

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:is RO really a classic house?)

Define "classic".

A house I tasted before I reached the age of 22.

Strangely, I have never seen that particular definition used before but I can see where you are coming from. Perhaps another way to define it would be "Houses purchased by Mr Wiseman Senior or to be found within a 10 mile radius of Cambridge University".

I think the real answer is yes, it is a classic house, being one of the oldest, largest and most famous houses in all of Portingdom. They just aren't up there with the big boys when it comes to VP which is probably why they flew below the Wiseman radar for so long.

DRT wrote:I think the real answer is yes, it is a classic house, being one of the oldest, largest and most famous houses in all of Portingdom. They just aren't up there with the big boys when it comes to VP which is probably why they flew below the Wiseman radar for so long.

Classic, perhaps yes, but not classic. Old age doesn’t make one classic that requires being tasted in one’s youth!