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by LGTrotter
14:05 Tue 30 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

Re: Weepers

Perfectly acceptable.
by LGTrotter
18:52 Mon 29 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

Re: Weepers

Glenn E. wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Three a week! I have some shopping to do.
He was being conservative. You are British, after all. Any lower of an estimate and one might have thought you were American.
You all went off and left us three bottle men too befuddled to follow.
by LGTrotter
14:10 Mon 29 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: A storage problem
Replies: 38
Views: 7283

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.
by LGTrotter
14:05 Mon 29 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

Re: Weepers

Three a week! I have some shopping to do.
by LGTrotter
13:47 Mon 29 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

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 ...
by LGTrotter
13:27 Mon 29 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

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.
by LGTrotter
13:09 Mon 29 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

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.
by LGTrotter
19:50 Sun 28 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

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...
by LGTrotter
12:35 Sun 28 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

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...
by LGTrotter
01:42 Sun 28 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

Re: Weepers

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!
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.
by LGTrotter
18:53 Sat 27 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

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 ...
by LGTrotter
17:48 Sat 27 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: How to re-wax bottles
Replies: 65
Views: 27746

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...
by LGTrotter
12:07 Sat 20 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Plants for a 'port garden'?
Replies: 24
Views: 7685

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?
by LGTrotter
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.
by LGTrotter
22:54 Wed 17 Jul 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port and literature
Replies: 263
Views: 124398

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...
by LGTrotter
00:33 Wed 05 Jun 2013
Forum: Other Wines
Topic: What kind of sherry?
Replies: 3
Views: 3288

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...
by LGTrotter
15:59 Tue 14 May 2013
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Apostrophe crimes
Replies: 2072
Views: 676660

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'.
by LGTrotter
00:04 Mon 13 May 2013
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1985 Smith Woodhouse
Replies: 0
Views: 1962

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...
by LGTrotter
02:02 Sat 20 Apr 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: What are you standing in the cellar
Replies: 49
Views: 17137

Re: What are you standing in the cellar

Fantastic, Basil Rathbone in the lead?
by LGTrotter
01:56 Sat 20 Apr 2013
Forum: Selling Port
Topic: Vintage Port to Sell
Replies: 15
Views: 9477

Re: Vintage Port to Sell

I find the wife selling scene in Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' all too tragic.
by LGTrotter
00:32 Tue 12 Feb 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Tasting wine
Replies: 10
Views: 3575

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
by LGTrotter
00:11 Tue 12 Feb 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Tasting wine
Replies: 10
Views: 3575

Re: Tasting wine

You're right, stop drinking and start reading, I am perhaps a tad confused by the abbreviations.
by LGTrotter
00:01 Tue 12 Feb 2013
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Tasting wine
Replies: 10
Views: 3575

Re: Tasting wine

No, still lost.

Think the spectator article is onto something, seems to chime with what I drink.
by LGTrotter
11:54 Mon 07 Jan 2013
Forum: Other Wines
Topic: Madeira Recommendations
Replies: 14
Views: 8890

Re: Madeira Recommendations

I asked last year if Rare Wine Co. ship to the UK, a polite 'no' was the answer.
by LGTrotter
15:04 Thu 20 Dec 2012
Forum: Other Wines
Topic: Madeira Recommendations
Replies: 14
Views: 8890

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...