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- 17:10 Wed 11 Mar 2015
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tuesday 31st March - informal and blind
- Replies: 79
- Views: 53083
Re: Tuesday 31st March - informal and blind
The Ards peninsula! Well. If you're near Belfast perhaps I can distract you for a night. I may be able to attend on the 31st. A distraction would have been manna from heaven. Alas, neither time nor protocol allow for any such escapades. The Easter weekend will be spent eating incinerated roast beef...
- 12:49 Wed 11 Mar 2015
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tuesday 31st March - informal and blind
- Replies: 79
- Views: 53083
Tuesday 31st March - informal and blind
Realizing that the proposed date follows hot on the heels of the tasting on 26th March and that this is the Easter week when people may have retreat to their chalets, cottages, country piles or whatever, is there any interest in an informal gathering on Tuesday 31st March? I have been busy with work...
- 12:27 Fri 20 Feb 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Decanting method experimentation
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7898
Re: Decanting method experimentation
Thanks Phil, very interesting. I always use muslin which is folded a few times into a small sieve (approx. 6 cm diam.) and whilst i have not conducted any real tests, at least not of comparable quality to yours, i have always been pleased with the results. 1. The muslin captures the sediment, even o...
- 13:52 Fri 13 Feb 2015
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Mon 2nd March 2015 - Henry Shotton visits London
- Replies: 166
- Views: 71000
Re: Mon 2nd March 2015 - Henry Shotton visits London
Sadly my attendance has become impossible. Please remove me from the list.
- 18:26 Tue 03 Feb 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Dow's Master Blend LBV Port 2006
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5577
Re: Dow's Master Blend LBV Port 2006
It should be drinking perfectly now (provided it has been stored well) but will not benefit from further aging as it has been filtered and fined to remove the solid matter from the wine that needs to be there for any wine to evolve into something better. Two apologies before i start; firstly for th...
- 15:34 Tue 03 Feb 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Shipper adjectives
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9303
Re: Shipper adjectives
Croftian or Croftesque both work fairly well.
- 11:19 Tue 03 Feb 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Cab Sauv: your personality = not subtle
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2486
Re: Cab Sauv: your personality = not subtle
Perchance a Cahors would float your boat?djewesbury wrote:Ugh. I hate Malbec. I never touch New World wines. Did I mention, can't stand Malbec.
- 16:52 Mon 02 Feb 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2015 Harvest
- Replies: 72
- Views: 24019
Re: 2015 Harvest
I'll skip ahead to the end point:
2015 - there was weather, wines were made. Best of the 21st century if the middlemen are to be believed.
2015 - there was weather, wines were made. Best of the 21st century if the middlemen are to be believed.
- 15:16 Mon 02 Feb 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port-bottle table lamp
- Replies: 74
- Views: 37269
Re: Port-bottle table lamp
My post relates to dwellings only but can of course be extended to include other "things" as one may deem appropriate.djewesbury wrote: Be VERY careful what you say about things that are old, decrepit, technically outdated and generally unfit for purpose. How do you think we all end up here?
- 14:51 Mon 02 Feb 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port-bottle table lamp
- Replies: 74
- Views: 37269
Re: Port-bottle table lamp
Paint method is best. Use liquid wax resist and small paint brush (like those used for airplane modelling) to seal top of neck. Let paint dry thoroughly before removing wax with hair dryer (or paint removing gun) and then wipe clean. I'd take Foster's architecture over that of jug ears any day but t...
- 12:26 Thu 29 Jan 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: UK earthquake
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6105
Re: UK earthquake
Another wildcatter out fracturing the earth's crust? Are my bottles at Vinotheque unharmed? Will pork pie production in nearby Melton Mowbray grind to a halt and if so, will TPF's northwestern piemaker be able to fill the void.
- 01:49 Thu 22 Jan 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Apostrophe crimes
- Replies: 2072
- Views: 710111
Re: Apostrophe crimes
On a positive or practical note, at least i chose the right thread for my plethora of grammatical and logical errors. Must have saved people time when quoting.
- 17:44 Wed 21 Jan 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Apostrophe crimes
- Replies: 2072
- Views: 710111
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Well said and i can but agree even though i am not au fait with all details and intricacies concerning academic life, education policies etc.
This topic is a well-beaten horse but it seems the old nag just refuses to die...
This topic is a well-beaten horse but it seems the old nag just refuses to die...
- 16:02 Wed 21 Jan 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Apostrophe crimes
- Replies: 2072
- Views: 710111
Re: Apostrophe crimes
1. I think this has more to do with government policy toward third level education than any supposed problems at second level. But anyway, yes, that's why I said it was a perpetual problem. As in more unis equals dilution of the student brain pool? I would not disagree with that per se but would pr...
- 13:52 Wed 21 Jan 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Apostrophe crimes
- Replies: 2072
- Views: 710111
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Two quick tongue-in-cheek thoughts on DJ's lamentation above: 1. It is in the nature of those who are not young to worry about and to decry the abilities of those who are. This has gone on for millennia. 2. I suspect your population sample is small, biased and unrepresentative of the young populatio...
- 19:06 Tue 20 Jan 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Where is everyone..?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8611
Re: Where is everyone..?
I too like trees, which is why I noticed the the handle. Fortunately Somerset's full of them, not too many Aspen though. It's the noise and the quivering that intrigue me about them. One of my most effective ways of dealing with stress and troublesome questions is to walk through the beech woods wi...
- 10:24 Tue 20 Jan 2015
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Where is everyone..?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8611
Re: Where is everyone..?
It's the Aspen. Isn't there a bit of mythology about why it trembles? Purely a rhetorical question I shall look it up myself. Indeed the Aspen. What can i say, i like trees, the smell, sound and colour of a forest, different depending on the predominating specie, season and time of day etc. Beats h...
- 11:54 Mon 12 Jan 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: German wine
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22444
Re: Pointless Statistics
I realise that you may well be looking higher-end, but in case of interest my Riesling picks of the last year (with price in euros in [] after the name) were as follows: # Georg Breuer Terra Montosa 2004 [20.00] : Full, golden, minerals and green apples, tart sharp, honey finish - Georg Breuer: in ...
- 09:08 Fri 09 Jan 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: German wine
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22444
Re: Pointless Statistics
Robert Weil is indeed overpriced, but so is Meyer-Näkel in my view (the RW of the Ahr). I will send you a longer PM over the weekend with some suggestions concerning the Ahr and the Rheingau. Agree that M-N is not exactly cheap but it seems to me that top German Spätburgunder never is and also, not...
- 21:19 Thu 08 Jan 2015
- Forum: Other Wines
- Topic: German wine
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22444
Re: Pointless Statistics
Answers are quite simple: Ahr: Meyer-Näkel, bought on a whim one might say. Have not tried any others. Rheinhessen: I like Wittmann's GGs and Keller's GGs as well as other wines from K. Have not tried Rheingau and the only big name that springs (to my somewhat narrow) mind is R Weil whose wines alwa...
- 15:54 Thu 08 Jan 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Pointless Statistics
- Replies: 251
- Views: 223281
Re: Pointless Statistics
Have done a quick and dirty rundown of the wines i keep in storage at Vinotheque and the numbers came up as follows, all based on 75cl bottle equivalents: (rounding errors are mine) Countries Austria 1.10% France 25.33% Germany 25.63% Italy 8.83% (of which 14% is from Tuscany, rest is from Piemonte)...
- 19:03 Wed 07 Jan 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: General query on maturity in half bottles
- Replies: 48
- Views: 15685
Re: General query on maturity in half bottles
Why can't certain things be allowed to remain mysteries like how does the graphite get crammed into pencils or how are bucatini made?
It seems to me that even a perfect formula for half bottle maturation is still a less satisfactory method than that of pulling a cork on periodic sample bottles.
It seems to me that even a perfect formula for half bottle maturation is still a less satisfactory method than that of pulling a cork on periodic sample bottles.
- 17:52 Wed 07 Jan 2015
- Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
- Topic: Boeuf Turnbull
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14684
Re: Boeuf Turnbull
I would be curious to know who caused the accident? TWS are usually on the ball in my view.djewesbury wrote:The Wine Society accidentally sold me something Australian
- 15:53 Tue 06 Jan 2015
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Most evolved halves - G90 or W87 ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4973
Re: Most evolved halves - G90 or W87 ?
Don't most storage facilities offer single bottle withdrawals nowadays?
If you can't pick and mix, then do what Julian suggested and get both out in their entirety.
If you can't pick and mix, then do what Julian suggested and get both out in their entirety.
- 14:29 Tue 30 Dec 2014
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Christie’s auctions
- Replies: 142
- Views: 46276
Re: Christie’s auctions
Thank you for digging these out and posting them, most fascinating. I suppose i don't need to ask you to keep it up, but please do.
Also, what is the intended outcome from collecting these? Are you creating a database of all port sold at Christie's and if so, what will this be used for?
Also, what is the intended outcome from collecting these? Are you creating a database of all port sold at Christie's and if so, what will this be used for?