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- 14:05 Tue 30 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
Re: Weepers
Perfectly acceptable.
- 18:52 Mon 29 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
Re: Weepers
You all went off and left us three bottle men too befuddled to follow.Glenn E. wrote:He was being conservative. You are British, after all. Any lower of an estimate and one might have thought you were American.LGTrotter wrote:Three a week! I have some shopping to do.
- 14:10 Mon 29 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: A storage problem
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7289
Re: A storage problem
Does the same hold true for Berrys? There was a fullness to the assurances when I signed up that I thought it watertight.
- 14:05 Mon 29 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
Re: Weepers
Three a week! I have some shopping to do.
- 13:47 Mon 29 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
Re: Weepers
And the last question is do I go and get another one? Caution! - put two port bottles together and they start breeding.. Fear not, I have found a way of stopping the Malthusian expansion of their population; drinking. I remember thinking some years ago that a dozen good ports would be enough, I've ...
- 13:27 Mon 29 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
Re: Weepers
A palpable hit. I promise never to try and be sophisticated again, from now on it's Somerset hick. I shall change into my smock and find a piece of straw to suck.
- 13:09 Mon 29 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
Re: Weepers
And the last question is do I go and get another one? I should really try the one I’ve got before venturing on the next. But I always think that having two bottles of a wine is better that just a singleton, one to wash and one to wear so to speak. Or Einmal ist kienmal if I was feeling sophisticated.
- 19:50 Sun 28 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
Re: Weepers
Me, some acetone, wax and hydrogen peroxide, what could possibly go wrong? I picture myself, sans eyebrows wandering away from the smoking ruin that was my home. I’ve just got to do it. This was a most complete set of instructions. Does it not belong in a resource index somewhere? I would have thoug...
- 12:35 Sun 28 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
Re: Weepers
Is there a standard waxing procedure? I thought beeswax as a neutral wax but if there is an accepted norm I would be keen know about it. There is not much left of the wax capsule left and I quite fancied having a go at rewaxing. Despite Tom’s backing for the cling film idea I still feel that it woul...
- 01:42 Sun 28 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
Re: Weepers
What a bold stroke. However I would worry that cling film is a rather slender reed to rest a magnum of port on. I should be in a constant state of anxiety about it.benread wrote:I have a rather old bottle with a small amount of cling film. Probably not a long term solution but avoids any mess!
- 18:53 Sat 27 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
Re: Weepers
That is true, there are worse fates. I should not repine. I thought that rewaxing might work, it doesn't look in too bad nick apart from the weep. The colour and fill both look OK which makes me think it might be a recent weep, probably brought about by being moved. I suppose that I am also daunted ...
- 17:48 Sat 27 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: How to re-wax bottles
- Replies: 65
- Views: 27843
How to re-wax bottles
Thread title re-named by DRT to aid future searches on this topic. I have just in my rather foolhardy way gone and bought a somewhat iffy but cheap magnum of Warre 1970. The trouble is that it is weeping. I don't want to drink it right now, partly due to the weather and partly as I like to let bott...
- 12:07 Sat 20 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Plants for a 'port garden'?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7743
Re: Plants for a 'port garden'?
I take it an elder tree would be banned, but it might come in handy for beefing up the laggards. Jeripoga? is that the word?
- 22:59 Wed 17 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: So what do you guys think about industry consolidation?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7275
Re: So what do you guys think about industry consolidation?
I have an uneasy feeling that Cockburn may change further, I hope not, but the lighter colour, medium weight port seems to be a dying breed.
- 22:54 Wed 17 Jul 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 126060
Re: Port and literature
I have to mention Dorothy L Sayers. At various times Lord Peter Wimsey is drinking port, usually Cockburn. There is one ('Clouds of Witness'?) where Murbles the solicitor is left a case of the Cockburn 1847 by a grateful client in their will. Drinking the wine in the 1920s they pronounce it dead; 'a...
- 00:33 Wed 05 Jun 2013
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: What kind of sherry?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3311
Re: What kind of sherry?
If memory serves me correctly whenever I came across the hangers on from this age in the late seventies they were serving 'old brown', which I was swigging it while adult attention was elsewhere. This ranged from dreadful 'british', to slightly less dreadful 'commonwealth' through to a quite stunnin...
- 15:59 Tue 14 May 2013
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Apostrophe crimes
- Replies: 2072
- Views: 683618
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Never mind, I only made 5/10.
In the words of Gore Vidal;
'It is not enough to suceed, others must fail'.
In the words of Gore Vidal;
'It is not enough to suceed, others must fail'.
- 00:04 Mon 13 May 2013
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1985 Smith Woodhouse
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1963
1985 Smith Woodhouse vintage port
With a mention of Berry Bros on the label from a case bought from them some years ago, this is about number 3 or 4 and they have all been pretty consistent. Decidedly pink in colour, fading out at the rim but no suggestion of browning. Became a bit darker with some hours open. Long 'legs' in the gla...
- 02:02 Sat 20 Apr 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: What are you standing in the cellar
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17223
Re: What are you standing in the cellar
Fantastic, Basil Rathbone in the lead?
- 01:56 Sat 20 Apr 2013
- Forum: Selling Port
- Topic: Vintage Port to Sell
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9487
Re: Vintage Port to Sell
I find the wife selling scene in Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' all too tragic.
- 00:32 Tue 12 Feb 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Tasting wine
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3576
Re: Tasting wine
The second part to assist with my comprehension of the first part.
Anyway I haven't stopped drinking and I still don't understand what LTTNB or LATNB mean. I'm going to keep trying, me and this Grahams crusted '98
Anyway I haven't stopped drinking and I still don't understand what LTTNB or LATNB mean. I'm going to keep trying, me and this Grahams crusted '98
- 00:11 Tue 12 Feb 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Tasting wine
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3576
Re: Tasting wine
You're right, stop drinking and start reading, I am perhaps a tad confused by the abbreviations.
- 00:01 Tue 12 Feb 2013
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Tasting wine
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3576
Re: Tasting wine
No, still lost.
Think the spectator article is onto something, seems to chime with what I drink.
Think the spectator article is onto something, seems to chime with what I drink.
- 11:54 Mon 07 Jan 2013
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: Madeira Recommendations
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8923
Re: Madeira Recommendations
I asked last year if Rare Wine Co. ship to the UK, a polite 'no' was the answer.
- 15:04 Thu 20 Dec 2012
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: Madeira Recommendations
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8923
Re: Madeira Recommendations
I enjoy the Barbieto single harvest wines, they seem nearer my price range for a suck it and see wine than some of the Colheitas. I concur with whoever it was that ones taste in madeiras changes, I am now much more into Verdelho than Malmsey which I originally loved. Not too sure that the basic 3 ye...