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Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 21:28 Sat 16 Jul 2022
by winesecretary
1966 Quinta do Noval BBR Bottling

Melon salad
Steak medium with fries and green salad. No sauce.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 23:21 Sat 16 Jul 2022
by jdaw1
uncle tom wrote: 16:58 Fri 22 Apr 2022Duck pate - medium rare ordinary steak + peppercorn sauce + beans

Can be taken as my 'default' order for all events.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 08:05 Sun 17 Jul 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
jdaw1 wrote: 01:04 Sat 16 Jul 2022 Alex: will you be bringing for the two newcomers?

Alex: will you assemble the food order?
I will assemble the food order.

Alan has advised the Ports he and Tony are bringing. Just waiting on Tony’s food order.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 08:45 Sun 17 Jul 2022
by PhilW
Room for one more? Assuming yes:

Food order please:
- starter: Grilled flatbread with lemon and coriander houmous
- main: Would be happy to share a medium-rare bone-in ribeye with Mike; otherwise Sirloin medium-rare. Please Bearnaise sauce if possible, and fries.

Port:
- Probably a Cockburn 1967 "Joanna" bottling, unless that's a duplication with anyone else.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 10:33 Sun 17 Jul 2022
by jdaw1
Alex Bridgeman wrote: 08:05 Sun 17 Jul 2022Alan has advised the Ports he and Tony are bringing. Just waiting on Tony’s food order.
Do tell.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 11:19 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
Tony and Alan will both be bringing bottles of Dow 1963.

Both are right-handed.

Tony's food order is: Mackerel with beetrot; bangers and mash with Madeira gravy
Alan's food order is: Smoked salmon; chicken caesar with fries

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 11:53 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
Summary of Food Order:
  1. AHB - crab pate / potted crab / potted shrimp; medium rare bone-in ribeye shared with AJM, bearnaise sauce, green beans and shallots
  2. AJM - smoked salmon; medium rare bone-in ribeye shared with AHB, green beans and shallots, fries
  3. AG - smoked salmon; chicken caesar with fries
  4. TCz - mackerel and beetroot salad; bangers and mash with madeira gravy
  5. JDAW - soup of the day; beyond meat burger
  6. GEAG - melon salad; medium sirloin, green salad, fries
  7. CPR -
  8. THRA - duck pate; medium rare sirloin with peppercorn sauce, green beans and shallots
  9. HTWH - potted crab; medium-rare sirloin with carrots and fries
  10. MPM - crab pate / potted crab / potted shrimp; medium rare bone-in ribeye shared with PW, green beans and shallots, fries
  11. PW - grilled flatbread; medium rare bone-in ribeye shared with MPM with bearnaise sauce, fries
  12. IDJ - starter portion of truffle mac and cheese; medium-rare sirloin, green beans and shallots
Charles - please say today what you would like to eat otherwise you can order from the standard menu on the day.

Charles, Tom, Harry - please say soon what you plan to bring

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 11:55 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
Can anyone print the placemats? Since retiring, I have lost my access to a decent printer.

Julian - first post has been updated with the known bottles. Note change of initials for Tony, who is now TCz so as to distinguish him from Tony Carter.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 12:18 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by hadge
Food,

potted crab / potted shrimp or Smoked salmon
Sirloin M-R, Fries, Carrots

Bottle, just having a look, with revert shortly

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 12:46 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by idj123
Please sir, is there room to accommodate one more for this tasting?

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 13:01 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
hadge wrote: 12:18 Mon 18 Jul 2022 Food,

potted crab / potted shrimp or Smoked salmon
Sirloin M-R, Fries, Carrots

Bottle, just having a look, with revert shortly
Thank you. Food order noted and included.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 13:01 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
idj123 wrote: 12:46 Mon 18 Jul 2022 Please sir, is there room to accommodate one more for this tasting?
Absolutely there is. Welcome!

Let me know your food order as soon as you can please.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 13:49 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by idj123
Alex Bridgeman wrote: 13:01 Mon 18 Jul 2022
idj123 wrote: 12:46 Mon 18 Jul 2022 Please sir, is there room to accommodate one more for this tasting?
Absolutely there is. Welcome!

Let me know your food order as soon as you can please.
Thanks.
Truffle Mac n cheese (yes, I see that it’s now for two to share but am sure someone can assist or else I should be able to cope!)
Steak (M-R) and fries plus green beans and shallots.

Will look to bring a Df66.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 16:31 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
Julian - can we incorporate onto the tasting mat or the tasting notes sheet each person's food order? Then each person will know what they ordered and I won't need to shout at everyone to remind them.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 20:51 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by jdaw1
+ Carrots for me please.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: 16:31 Mon 18 Jul 2022Julian - can we incorporate onto the tasting mat or the tasting notes sheet each person's food order? Then each person will know what they ordered and I won't need to shout at everyone to remind them.
Done, experimentally, with code injected via PaintForegroundCode, such that each person’s food order is at the bottom of his first TN sheet.

Please check data (of food as well as Ports and people).

Please comment on design and placement etc, ideally in issue 163.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 20:55 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by Doggett
Alex Bridgeman wrote: 16:31 Mon 18 Jul 2022 Julian - can we incorporate onto the tasting mat or the tasting notes sheet each person's food order? Then each person will know what they ordered and I won't need to shout at everyone to remind them.
Such a simple idea… astonishing it has not been thought of before in the hundreds of sittings the placemats have been used for, most with some kind of ‘what did I order??!!’ chaos. Retirement is firing those grey cells together!

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 21:00 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by jdaw1
Doggett wrote: 20:55 Mon 18 Jul 2022the hundreds of sittings the placemats have been used for
There are 486 events on the placemats list at jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemats_list.html (caution: ≥20 MB of images, so WiFi not mobile data).

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 21:02 Mon 18 Jul 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
jdaw1 wrote: 20:51 Mon 18 Jul 2022 + Carrots for me please.
Sorry, the order went in before I saw this. Please order on the night.

(I’ll check the other things tomorrow.)

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 12:05 Tue 19 Jul 2022
by Alex Bridgeman
jdaw1 wrote: 20:51 Mon 18 Jul 2022
Alex Bridgeman wrote: 16:31 Mon 18 Jul 2022Julian - can we incorporate onto the tasting mat or the tasting notes sheet each person's food order? Then each person will know what they ordered and I won't need to shout at everyone to remind them.
Done, experimentally, with code injected via PaintForegroundCode, such that each person’s food order is at the bottom of his first TN sheet.

Please check data (of food as well as Ports and people).

Please comment on design and placement etc, ideally in issue 163.
Checked. All appears to me to be correct.

And I love the food order inclusion! It looks perfect to allow people to know what they ordered and not to steal my fries from other people.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 18:11 Tue 19 Jul 2022
by Glenn E.
Alex Bridgeman wrote: 12:05 Tue 19 Jul 2022 It looks perfect to allow people to know what they ordered and not to steal my fries from other people.
:shock:

What are fries? Don't tell me you have two delicious fried potato snacks in England?!?

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 18:52 Tue 19 Jul 2022
by jdaw1
All fried-potato food is delicious. It’s extra delicious if fried in bacon fat, but even without that, is still delicious.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 18:58 Tue 19 Jul 2022
by DRT
jdaw1 wrote: 18:52 Tue 19 Jul 2022 All fried-potato food is delicious. It’s extra delicious if fried in bacon fat, but even without that, is still delicious.
I agree, and as an Irish Scot it would be blasphemous not to. But I really do agree.

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 19:01 Tue 19 Jul 2022
by DRT
Glenn E. wrote: 18:11 Tue 19 Jul 2022
Alex Bridgeman wrote: 12:05 Tue 19 Jul 2022 It looks perfect to allow people to know what they ordered and not to steal my fries from other people.
:shock:

What are fries? Don't tell me you have two delicious fried potato snacks in England?!?
Only two?

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 21:32 Tue 19 Jul 2022
by CPR 1
I plan to bring a T66

If not to late for food I would like:

Mackerel with sweet and sour beetroot, crème fraîche
sirloin steak (Black and Blue) Fries, green beans and please please béarnaise sauce

plus an ice bucket

Re: Monday 25th July - Bring a Port from 1960–1970

Posted: 22:05 Tue 19 Jul 2022
by PhilW

CPR 1 wrote:I would like:
... plus an ice bucket
Does this mean that Charles is:
(a) bringing a delicious Champagne for with starters,
(b) will be performing his latest TikTok challenge, and/or
(c) is just too hot today, like many of us.