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Hi Niall, Graham's '77 is a lovely port from a good year. Your bottles sound like they have been stored well, so are hopefully in good condition (good levels and colour). If so, then selling privately you should normally expect to achieve roughly 50-60% of the equivalent retail from the lowest price...

Assuming Ben is the only additional reconfirmation then CaliforniaBrad, RAYC, TLW and PEM are dropped from the attendees list and will be added to the bottom of the reserve list in that order. The reserve list will be updated first to include those who have asked to be added since 9th November. Nud...

Please put me down as (very) tentative.
Have W91, and my spreadsheet says I still have a bottle of Morgan '91, though I'm not convinced I do...

Many congrats Tony, great to see recognition for all the team and what has been achieved by you guys, well deserved.

Another idea: "Battle of the vineyards: Vargellas vs Terra Feita" The first (that I know of) TTF vintage was in '82, so taking all TTF vintages and TVs in same span would be: TTF: 1982, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2008 TV: 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1995, 1996, 199...

The symbol on the cap is the Gonzales Byass & Co. logo (the C wraps the & above the o).

See GB labels in the VPID for examples, such as http://www.hallarn.com/vpid/vpid_image. ... &qnum=3096

Cellar defenders are usually quite cheap bottles I have a slightly different angle on cellar defenders Alex. I consider a cellar defender to be something that gets in the way of drinking something special and potentially difficult to replace. And so four cases of say D94, at £50 a bottle, is a love...

If Phil is wrong, that's an astounding coincidence. If those numbers don't relate to those years I would agree; though the reason itself might not be quite right - rather than general declaration years, it might relate to a specific producer, or to a specific tasting that Alex has/will attend this ...

Is it number of years since general declarations working backwards from 1931?

i.e.
1931 = 88 (years ago)
1927 = 92,
1924 = 95,
1922 = 97,
1920 = 99,
1917 = 102,
1912 = 107...

Next three in sequence would presumably be
1908 = 111,
1904 = 115,
1900 = 119

Looks like it was probably bottled (presumably in Oporto) for Casa Augusto, a wine and grocery merchant in Porto; see logo on their website.

I prefer: http://www.jdawiseman.com/2019/20190623_Rays_A4.png Why? The inward pointing of the lines, the sitting in its own gravitational well, has the outside pointing to the important stuff — the juice. Within which I like the visual interest of not having macro symmetry. And the fewness of the l...

The first of your two examples does set the charges on hexagonal points as suggested, but puts them on the circle perimeter - I think it would work better if they were at ~85% of the radius.

Very interesting; I'd not come across Henekeys (Henekey's?) before. In our list of known crusted ports it says: Henekeys Reference in 1966/7 catalogue - no bottling date given A brief googling also shows that Henekeys had been bottling and selling crusted ports for a long time: Athenaeum.jpg Henekey...

Interesting. I will test. Might the mesh of points be too fine — points too close — such that it loses the macro structure? My gut feel was that it should be viable for hexagons, but that moving to decagons or higher 2*oddN sided polygons would be too fine. Might/not work, but thought worth suggest...

If only StreamPlot weren’t so fiercely difficult to re-code.

Do you have a pseudo-code algorithm?

A suggestion for alternate charge-plan to try and regularise: - For every circle, inscribe a hexagon (possibly slightly smaller diameter). - Assign charge to hexagon points (instead of circle centres), all with +1 at top point, then alternating -1/+1 around the hexagon. In any square or hexagonal ar...

So is Portal becoming a multi-quinta blend, of Quinta do Portal, Quinta dos Muros, and mybe others? If yes, why does its website still prominently say “ Quinta do Portal”? If not, why is Quinta dos Muros so heavily labelled with “Portal”? I would suggest the situation is the other way round. From t...

jdaw1 wrote: ↑

22:45 Fri 21 Jun 2019

PhilW wrote: ↑

12:05 Fri 21 Jun 2019

Also makes me realise that we seem to be missing NiB (Niepoort Bioma) from the abbreviations list.
- RPE on your sheets hasn't been added to the abbreviations list

NiB and RPE are on the list. Did you add them?

I did.

Alex - Probably a long shot at this point, but close to running out and have enjoyed using the bottle we have had previously - if you still had some bottles to spare, I'd happily take 2 or 3 from you at next opportunity. No worries if all allocated/gone, of course, especially given time has passed.

Regarding abbreviations: - On the placemats you have "Croft Quinta da Roêda Sērikos" whereas in the abbreviations list we have "Croft Sērikos". Please clarify/correct for consistency. If "Croft Quinta da Roêda Sērikos" then would suggest CrRS would be more appropriate (per previous discussions on pr...

Until now we have not been able to simply cut/paste simple code/tables created for proportionate display without either spending ages wrapping them into some table format, or having to use the "code" tag. The latter has been the default method to cope when this issue is encountered, but this often f...

Replies so far regarding July dates are pretty sparse either way: JUL JUL JUL 2 9 16 THRA Y Y Y JDAW . . . RK . n . PW Y Y Y DRL Y n Y SCD . . . MPM n n n ZDR n n n IDJ . Y . AHB . . . CPR n n n MC Y Y Y AP . . . TC . . . (Reserves) WPS . . . AJM Y Y n NAC Y Y n CMAG . . . Overall: July 2nd; Y=6, n=...

uncle tom wrote: ↑

12:59 Sat 15 Jun 2019

Many for whom 9th July fails. Tom: new date please.

I'm fairly flexible - does a week before or after change things significantly, or do we need to take it to September?

Either of July 2nd or 16th could also currently work for me.

Hmm. Bug or feature? • The points south, east-by-north-east and west-by-north-west relate well to the central circle. • But the points north, east-by-south-east and west-by-south-west do not connect to the central circle at all. From the imagery, would I be correct in thinking that each point repre...

Well... this was an interesting evening - though not quite what I expected port-wise. Starting with the good; a very enjoyable evening with friends, as always; nice to see a couple of new faces with Nick joining us for the first time, and the food and service was up to scratch as usual. On the port ...