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by jdaw1
22:55 Mon 01 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81595

Re: New Style

For almost all sites, and especially phpbb sites, clicking on the site name goes back to the main page. Standard operating procedure. (Except ’orrible proFormell.)
by jdaw1
22:40 Mon 01 Sep 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Apostrophe crimes
Replies: 2072
Views: 676810

Re: Apostrophe crimes

DRT wrote:this
DRT’s wiki entry forwards to mine. So other than providing the same content and being slower to load, I’m not quite sure what advantages it is purported to provide. My ignorance — no problem.
by jdaw1
22:20 Mon 01 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81595

Re: New Style

DRT wrote:I have just noticed that the Board Index link has disappeared from the top of threads. Is this intentional? If so, what is the reasoning? Either way, I would prefer to have it back if others agree.
Is there a reason that you’re reluctant to click on the big site name?
by jdaw1
21:45 Mon 01 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81595

Re: New Style

The same colours are used in consecutive PM messages, and some of the PM controls use grey. So I’d rather not use grey backgrounds. Unless the consensus is that I should.
by jdaw1
21:44 Mon 01 Sep 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Apostrophe crimes
Replies: 2072
Views: 676810

Re: Apostrophe crimes

As non-apostrophic pedantry seems to be becoming allowable, I indite jdaw1 for the following abuse of the double negative: I can’t get no satisfaction Perhaps the song to which that refers is older than you. I think that I have fairly quoted something that has become part of the language. Also the ...
by jdaw1
20:58 Mon 01 Sep 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Time Tunnels
Replies: 36
Views: 16279

Re: Psychedelia achieved

For what little it’s worth, using the current ThePortForumRed style on my Mac screen, it still works with another eleven nested quotations. A whole case though, a dozen, is one too many.
by jdaw1
20:36 Mon 01 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81595

Re: New Style

Agreed. Mintish green bad, and deceased. And green henceforth to be avoided outside boxes. The background colours in the threads are there to help separate consecutive posts, and nested quotations (see very silly thread [url=http://theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1642&start=25]Time Tunn...
by jdaw1
20:25 Mon 01 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81595

Re: New Style

The background colours go through a version a day: I can’t get no satisfaction. Please suggest, perhaps using www.jdawiseman.com/papers/trivia/web-colours-hsl.html for inspiration.
by jdaw1
01:09 Mon 01 Sep 2008
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Wednesday October 8, 2008
Replies: 217
Views: 90350

Re: Wednesday October 8, 2008

On the subject of the alleged 189 5 . … to see the ’90’s catching up and beating the (as it seemed to me) always over-rated ’87’s : or to pit against each other two such vintages as ’96 and ’97 from the same shippers—these were intellectual as well as merely sensuous exercises, and pleasing as both...
by jdaw1
19:38 Sun 31 Aug 2008
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 2001 Quinta do Crasto LBV
Replies: 10
Views: 6640

Re: 2001 Quinto do Crasto LBV

AHB wrote:Adnams
When they, or indeed anybody else, update their port list, please be encouraged to post in Port for sale by retailer.
by jdaw1
17:40 Sun 31 Aug 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Apostrophe crimes
Replies: 2072
Views: 676810

Tesco

It isn’t an apostrophe crime, but the following story slightly gladdened a pedant’s heart. Tesco is to change the wording of signs on its fast-track checkouts to avoid any linguistic dispute. The supermarket giant is to replace its current "10 items or less" notices with signs saying "...
by jdaw1
13:48 Sun 31 Aug 2008
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1994 Osborne
Replies: 5
Views: 2927

Re: 1994 Osborne

I didn’t get the dried fruit. Earthy tones maybe.
by jdaw1
03:31 Sun 31 Aug 2008
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1994 Osborne
Replies: 5
Views: 2927

Re: 1994 Osborne

Osborne 1994 : mediumly-dark red shifting to brown at the edge, with middling translucency. Colour looks a little advanced for a 1994, but it is a minor house. Nosing very strongly of — I know that smell what is it? — nearly coffee, nearly liquorice, nearly a fisherman’s friend minus most of the ...
by jdaw1
03:12 Sun 31 Aug 2008
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1994 Osborne
Replies: 5
Views: 2927

Re: 1994 Osborne

Sediment moistly particulate, though parts had acquired the shape of the inside of the half bottle.
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by jdaw1
03:12 Sun 31 Aug 2008
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1994 Osborne
Replies: 5
Views: 2927

Re: 1994 Osborne

Short cork extracted cleanly. There were two capsules, but the inner foil capsule was glued so tightly to the outer black that I didn’t separate them.
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by jdaw1
03:10 Sun 31 Aug 2008
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1994 Osborne
Replies: 5
Views: 2927

1994 Osborne

In buying some sherry at Village Wine and Spirits, I spy with my little eye a wee half bottle of Osborne 1994 for a mere $20+tax. What’s a boy to do?
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by jdaw1
02:01 Sun 31 Aug 2008
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Wednesday October 8, 2008
Replies: 217
Views: 90350

Re: Wednesday October 8, 2008

Some, including me, have sent £££ to DRT. He will ensure that things are fair — though I know not the details.
by jdaw1
22:04 Sat 30 Aug 2008
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Double horizontal of ’83 and ’85, Brooklyn, Sat 13 Sept ’08
Replies: 147
Views: 67709

Re: Double horizontal of ’83 and ’85, Brooklyn, Sat 13 Sept ’08

NN85: Zachys, Los Angeles, March 2006, lot 1208, $315 per bottle. G85: Sotheby’s, New York, 3rd Dec 2005, lot 430, $88 per bottle. I’m happy to bring the NN85, somebody can adopt the G85.
by jdaw1
17:34 Sat 30 Aug 2008
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Wednesday October 8, 2008
Replies: 217
Views: 90350

Re: Wednesday October 8, 2008

did we or at least one of you think about putting flights together and the sequence of drinking or are you planning to place them altogether on the table? Yes. Afternoon is 1975 to 2007. Evening is 189? to 1970. Within those, we haven’t split it. People will probably tackle them in date order. Cert...
by jdaw1
13:52 Sat 30 Aug 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: “Port rehab†!
Replies: 7
Views: 5574

Re: “Port rehab†!

Glenn E. wrote:I think you guys are getting it backwards... my reading is that "Port Rehab" means "Drink More Port!"
Absolutely yes. But only under proper medical supervision. No more spontaneous help-yourself pop-and-pour type sloppiness.
by jdaw1
00:22 Sat 30 Aug 2008
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1977 Ferreira
Replies: 5
Views: 4450

Re: 1977 Ferreira vintage port

AHB writes the best TNs. Most perceptive palate; and the most comprehensively and elegantly described. His TNs are almost† , but not quite, as much a joy as tasting the port oneself.

†  Allow a little poetic licence. Nothing compares to drinking the port oneself.
by jdaw1
00:19 Sat 30 Aug 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: “Port rehab†!
Replies: 7
Views: 5574

Re: “Port rehab†!

AHB wrote:I believe that the first step in port rehab would be to remove from the patient all collapsible funnels hidden about their person.
Corkscrews? Tongs? Coffee filters? Sabres? Wooden boxes containing a single glass of a preferred shape? Red checked shirts? Yes, those too.
by jdaw1
00:17 Sat 30 Aug 2008
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: When did <insert house here> change labels
Replies: 11
Views: 3760

Re: When did <insert house here> change labels

I have been putting pictures of labels in tasting notes. Be encouraged to do likewise.
by jdaw1
00:15 Sat 30 Aug 2008
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Keeping track of your port
Replies: 35
Views: 10561

Re: Keeping track of your port

I love little surprises like that! That's why, despite tracking my port on a spreadsheet, I still carry out a stocktake once a year or so. Following two instances in which AHB, allowed in my father’s cellar without my close supervision, failed to find what should have been there, I too did a stock ...
by jdaw1
19:07 Fri 29 Aug 2008
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Port for sale by retailer
Replies: 1537
Views: 810508

Port for sale by Benchmark Wine

Benchmark Wine wrote:Fonseca Port 1992 ~ 12 @ $115 RP97, WS96 In-Stock
Taylor Port 1977 ~ 12 @ $167 WS98 Pre-Arrival
Warres Port 1994 ~ 8 @ $64 RP94, WS95, MB***** In-Stock
Omitting the apostrophe from Warre’s is offensive, but better than using a grave accent.