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by djewesbury
01:13 Mon 21 Mar 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Wed 15 June - the Fonseca 1963 Case Tasting
Replies: 88
Views: 105887

Re: Wed 15 June - the Fonseca 1963 Case Tasting

I would be interested, potentially even curious.
by djewesbury
14:37 Sun 20 Mar 2016
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Cork reluctance
Replies: 2
Views: 2363

Re: Cork reluctance

jdaw1 wrote:Note to self: Cá85 should be tonged.
BUT: I've never had any difficulty with it.
by djewesbury
22:31 Wed 16 Mar 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: New York again, Easter
Replies: 115
Views: 86476

Re: New York again, Easter

Placemats updated to include Lupulo , and assuming bottles as: 1955 Daniel J.; 1960 1963 1966 Chris D.; 1970 1977 1983 1994 Miguel S.; 1985 Jay H. That is surely wrong, and can be changed as this thread updates. I'm still corresponding with the Players' Club [the apostrophe is moot - they don't use...
by djewesbury
13:42 Sun 13 Mar 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: New York again, Easter
Replies: 115
Views: 86476

Re: New York again, Easter

I am a reciprocal member of the Players' Club and the Down Town Association and I've enquired of both of these whether it's possible for reciprocal members to book private rooms, and if so, what the terms might be.

Will advise what reply I receive.
by djewesbury
13:36 Sun 13 Mar 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: New York again, Easter
Replies: 115
Views: 86476

Re: New York again, Easter

@jdaw1, thanks much for your placemats and for finding out / knowing first names etc. Very much appreciated. Do we have any further advance on a venue? If Graham is the theme I have 85 or 94, but I also have a 55 which is the last of a small batch that have drunk wonderfully in the last couple of ye...
by djewesbury
13:13 Sun 13 Mar 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: New York again, Easter
Replies: 115
Views: 86476

Re: New York again, Easter

jdaw1 wrote:
John M wrote:hydrate a lot
In advance is as important as during. Try to have a pint of water an hour, from midday to midnight. Six pints of water over the afternoon before you start will give you stamina and sobriety.
I think 'sobriety' is probably stretching the point.
by djewesbury
13:50 Thu 10 Mar 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: New York again, Easter
Replies: 115
Views: 86476

Re: New York again, Easter

I am beside myself with glee that we seem to have hauled this one out of the fire. I was starting to make other plans. Ok, I will update the first post and combine information from recent posts when I get the time (this will not be before Sunday, especially since the Forum seems to be so exceptional...
by djewesbury
17:04 Tue 01 Mar 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: New York again, Easter
Replies: 115
Views: 86476

Re: New York again, Easter

I've done it already. Can you not see it?
by djewesbury
10:19 Tue 01 Mar 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: New York again, Easter
Replies: 115
Views: 86476

Re: New York again, Easter

No apologies needed John, there is nothing to attend!
by djewesbury
16:13 Wed 24 Feb 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: New York again, Easter
Replies: 115
Views: 86476

Re: New York again, Easter

Has this thread died, even after the intervention of Doty? Cmon New York, what gives huh?
I'm now going Upstate between the 28th and 30th or so.. 1st is still a possibility for me.
People stand up.
by djewesbury
08:45 Fri 12 Feb 2016
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Latest buy
Replies: 2095
Views: 832005

Re: Latest buy

AHB wrote:
djewesbury wrote:A small collective nabbed 9 perfect condition, Irish-bottled F70 at auction for €424 all in.
Wow! Fabulous bargain - nicely done, small collective.
*small round yellow face wearing sunglasses and looking smug*
by djewesbury
00:48 Wed 10 Feb 2016
Forum: Reviews
Topic: Mon 8th Feb 2016, Boot & Flogger, Emergency
Replies: 10
Views: 13365

Re: Mon 8th Feb 2016, Boot & Flogger, Emergency

Maldevos? I can't be bothered copying and pasting and quoting and posting. Consider yourself slapped with a leather gauntlet.

(That's the second duel I've got into in about a minute.)
by djewesbury
00:46 Wed 10 Feb 2016
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: 1970 Croft
Replies: 16
Views: 9033

Re: 1970 Croft

You drank your Cr70 after a bourbon tasting? You cur. I challenge you, sir. *throws glove on ground*
by djewesbury
00:45 Wed 10 Feb 2016
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Latest buy
Replies: 2095
Views: 832005

Re: Latest buy

A small collective nabbed 9 perfect condition, Irish-bottled F70 at auction for €424 all in.
by djewesbury
00:22 Tue 09 Feb 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: BFT, Friday 22nd April 2016
Replies: 14
Views: 9588

Re: BFT, Friday 22nd April 2016

Annoyingly, I can't go. I have my last class that day, and I'm introducing a film in the film festival next day. Agghh. Nightmare. So that takes you out of any tasting on Thursday 21st as well, which I think we were lining up to be a GC vertical? Yeah, I'll have to get back on this one. It's just i...
by djewesbury
00:19 Tue 09 Feb 2016
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: 1970 Croft
Replies: 16
Views: 9033

Re: 1970 Croft

Cr70 always has low levels in my experience but I've only had a few leakers. It's always good.
by djewesbury
12:05 Thu 04 Feb 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: BFT, Friday 22nd April 2016
Replies: 14
Views: 9588

Re: BFT, Friday 22nd April 2016

Annoyingly, I can't go. I have my last class that day, and I'm introducing a film in the film festival next day.
by djewesbury
10:34 Wed 03 Feb 2016
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Wed 24th of February 2016 Vesuvio tasting
Replies: 159
Views: 90315

Re: Wed 24th of February 2016 Vesuvio tasting

Apologies everyone. Now that I finally have my full timetable for this semester I have to drop out of this tasting - it's absolutely impossible for me I'm afraid. Sorry also for the late notice.

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by djewesbury
22:46 Sun 17 Jan 2016
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: Time for a TN sort?
Replies: 448
Views: 281590

Re: Time for a TN sort?

DRT wrote:Ta-da!!!!

I have done something useful during my four hour delay at Leeds Bradford Airport en route to an emergency in Belfast. I feel a little better for it, but not much.

Grrrr to FlyBe :evil:
Your dinner was delicious.
by djewesbury
16:05 Fri 15 Jan 2016
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: 10000th Topic!
Replies: 9
Views: 12814

Re: 10000th Topic!

10k topics, almost 100k posts. TNs have one to three posts each; One Quiz has many more. So that is plausible. Yet another accounting error from the unemployed counting-man. Errors happen, I am not fervently denying. But, so far at least, I am not seeing it. Please explain. Oops, sorry, not you, Ph...
by djewesbury
16:01 Fri 15 Jan 2016
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: 10000th Topic!
Replies: 9
Views: 12814

Re: 10000th Topic!

jdaw1 wrote:10k topics, almost 100k posts. TNs have one to three posts each; One Quiz has many more. So that is plausible.
Yet another accounting error from the unemployed counting-man.
by djewesbury
12:19 Fri 15 Jan 2016
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Bar Douro @ Pop Brixton
Replies: 0
Views: 2063

Bar Douro @ Pop Brixton

Max Graham of the Churchills Port House, will open BAR DOURO, a Portuguese restaurant in Central London later this year. On the 27th of January BAR DOURO will be running a supper club at POP BRIXTON, introducing its head chef Tiago Santos. Tiago Santos, is a young creative chef who is quickly becom...
by djewesbury
15:00 Thu 14 Jan 2016
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Alcohol and health
Replies: 339
Views: 183738

Re: Alcohol and health

Well as of today I know of another person with prostate cancer. You really must live a gilded life Derek.
by djewesbury
14:59 Thu 14 Jan 2016
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port and literature
Replies: 263
Views: 124415

Re: Port and literature

Presentation and performance is everything. Hard to do with a spreadsheet; I spent all yesterday filling a big one in the hope that the number in the bottom right would be the number we started with (it wasn't, but that was sort of the point). Get away with your spreadsheets.