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Derek T. wrote:I think we could live without the Introductions section

Seconded.

Hexagonal? Well, not a term I would use in this context, but if I had to, perhaps it could be used it for F70 F77 T63 T70 T77 T85 G70 G77.

A hexagonal? An hexagonal? I don’t mind either. Easy-going, me.

uncle tom wrote:- Taylor Terra Feita
- Taylor Vargellas

This pair will be appearing in my verticals, starting in about twenty years. An interesting comparison.

Derek T. wrote:...or a triple-mini-vertical?

Take the longer dimension. Is a tasting of Fonseca 1963, Fonseca 1970, Fonseca 1977, Fonseca 1985 a vertical, or four micro-horizontals? The former: use the longer dimension.

(And read this before attempting an ellipsis character.)

Alex asked me for a list of non-obvious characters available from most computers, which should include: ┚¬

Derek T. wrote:So, is this a rectangle?

Fonseca 1963, 1966 & 1970
taylor's 1963, 1966 & 1970

Yes, though I would be more specific and describe it as a double-horizontal.

Hold on. This is the sub-£10 category. And would I win the 1000 meters at the No-Training-Except-Port Fat-Boy Olympics? Maybe. But would that make me an Olympic athlete? Not in my wife’s eyes, let me tell you.

If it’s being done blind, these placemats might help. For those who like their port tastings blind, some standard pages have been produced in various page sizes: A4 (11.70"Ã 8.28") ; A3 (16.55"Ã 11.70") ; … US Legal (14"Ã 8½") ; and …. Each of these (large) files con...

Square. AHB’s example is indeed of a diagonal.

• “Food, smokes, non-port drinks†
• “Food; smokes; non-port drinks†
• “Other vices (except Conky’s wives)†

I have the PDF of the catalogue (don’t challenge reflected glory unless you have better): LEGENDARY NOVAL NACIONAL FROM A PRIVATE CELLAR Lying in Twickenham, Middlesex (EHD) Quinta do Noval, Nacional—Vintage 1931 Bottled by Justerini & Brooks. Remains of embossed wax capsules. Recent hand writt...

I have laid at least 2 apostrophe traps in the past 48 hours and you haven't picked them up - you seem to be losing your touch :wink: Derek There are people whose wisdom I value, and to whose words I pay close attention. This is a strict subset of all humanity. at least 2 apostrophe traps But, to b...

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You aren’t alone Conky.

Agreed. An excellent and most useful video.

PC? Hold down Alt, and type 0151 on the numeric keypad. (If that doesn’t cope, change the NumLock setting.)

Mac? Good man: Shift-Option-hyphen.

Neither: copy-paste mine from above.

While you are at it, a pedant’s ellipsis is one character (“…” not ‟...”), being Alt-0133 or Option-;.

Good ideas. Broadbent has been my bible, but I have just ordered the Mayson book (Amazon link, .co.uk) and Howkins Rich, Rare and Red: A Guide to Port (.co.uk).

Vintage Port - the only wine worth the wait Even I’m willing to acknowledge that this is a pedantic complaint (in other words, do consider the merits of not reading further), but that really should be an m-dash (‟ ”) not a hyphen (‟-”). Normally I wouldn’t say anything, but as we’re going to be s...

As usual, if there’s a list of people and ports, I’ll do my thing.

People:

• RR
• LadyR
• Derek T.
• AHB
• Alex K.
• Uncle Tom

Ports:

• Niepoort 1977
• Quarles Harris 1977
• Cockburn 1983
• ? 1975
• ? 1975

Google’s algorithm is secret. But it does attempt to spot over saturation: see, amongst many possibilities, this page.

Yes, you know each other. I have met AHB only twice, and the rest of you never. You don’t know me from the random tramp round the corner (except that you might guess I don’t drink Tennants Extra). Hence I must be more careful about matters of reputation. Or maybe I’m just more paranoid. Back to the ...

Let me be very serious here. A precedent is being set that will encourage a flood of me-to people seeking free booze. I do not want to be labelled as such. Tom: you must PM me with the amount owed, which is to be the higher of: your purchase cost (plus interest if it was long ago); and the current ‘...

Well, there’s no harm in it being mentioned from time to time in posts.

Derek T. wrote:see if we can shoe-horn Vintage Port into as many of them as possible

Overdo it, and Mr. Google’s cunning algorithm asks itself what we are doing. That wouldn’t be good. Keep usage natural.

do we create a single post that has 1000 instances of the following block of text or would we have to create 1000 posts or threads with 1 block in each? Vintage Port Colhieta Quinta Aged Tawny Reserve Port Ruby Port Tawny Port Port Forum No. Google detects for ‘natural language’ use of things. Anyt...