London 15 May - 1970 tasting

[Christopher]

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

[RAYC]

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

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

[DRT]

Dow is already in. Adopters might require?

Me please!

[jdaw1]

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.

[Alex Bridgeman]

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?

[RonnieRoots]

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?

[RonnieRoots]

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

Excellent! I'll amend the first post.

[jdaw1]

And, this evening, I’ll fix the placemats to add Christopher and mirror Ronnie.

[DRT]

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.

[jdaw1]

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

I really don’t like the uneven heights of the digits in ‟1970” presumably mis-typset lower-case digits.

[jdaw1]

Updated draft of the placemats.

• Ronnie left’d;
• +CMAG and +F70;
• RLC’s bottle still undecided.

[jdaw1]

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.

[RAYC]

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.

[jdaw1]

Placemats will be updated on Sunday night.

Yes please to the ROC.

[RonnieRoots]

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.

[jdaw1]

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.

[Alex Bridgeman]

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.

[jdaw1]

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

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

[Deleted_User_1]

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.

[jdaw1]

Updated draft of the placemats.

• +S from Cookie THRA;
• +OBV, from additional guest NDS.

Please could somebody review and approve?

[RAYC]

We now seem to be missing the squiggly lines...

[Alex Bridgeman]

(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!

[Alex Bridgeman]

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

I will leave you to print

[RAYC]

(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?

[jdaw1]

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.

[RAYC]

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.

hmmm....three pages seems unnecessary....i do like the squiggly lines though - how about you re-insert them in white so they are less obvious?

[jdaw1]

how about you re-insert them in white so they are less obvious?

Ignoring that. But rays re-added.

[jdaw1]

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1970 Dow;
• 1970 Fonseca;
• 1970 Graham;
• 1970 Sandeman;
• 1970 Taylor;
• 1970 Warre;
• 1970 Cockburn;
• 1970 Offley Boa Vista;
• 1970 Royal Oporto;
• 1970 Royal Oporto Carvalhas;
• Placemats;
• Planning and organisation.

[jdaw1]

I have two to decant, Dow and Royal Oporto. Morning, lunch, or just before?

[DRT]

I have two to decant, Dow and Royal Oporto. Morning, lunch, or just before?

Lunch.

[jdaw1]

I can print in B&W

Printed.

[uncle tom]

Graham just decanted - looking very sound..

[RAYC]

My ETA is 7.00.

Please start without me.

[jdaw1]

Dow (fine), Royal Oporto (worrying), and placemats: all at TBH.

[uncle tom]

Graham, Sandeman, Offley and Taylor (late request from AHB) now double decanted and re-corked.

Our guest tonight has the initials NDS but is always known as Sandy - very sound company!

[jdaw1]

Is pre-port beer at The Old Nick or at Penderel’s Oak?

[jdaw1]

Posted: parameters used in the placemats.