Another virtual tasting

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AHB wrote: 09:02 Fri 03 Apr 2020 Does this make more sense?
Sorted.
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I have figured out a way to participate with video! Now you'll have to see my scruffy coronabeard.
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Should there be space - or rather, the necessary bandwidth - I would be delighted to join. I have not yet had the chance to meet any of you - to my great regret - though I did have a lovely chat with Oscar Quevedo at his property, last summer.
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Is there space for one more?
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Current draft of the paperwork has been updated.
Will W. wrote: 22:15 Fri 03 Apr 2020Should there be space - or rather, the necessary bandwidth - I would be delighted to join.
Added. I’ve guessed your initials to be WTW: if wrong, please correct.
forest26 wrote: 22:41 Fri 03 Apr 2020Is there space for one more?
For you, of course. Added.
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jdaw1 wrote: 23:19 Fri 03 Apr 2020 Current draft of the paperwork has been updated.
Will W. wrote: 22:15 Fri 03 Apr 2020Should there be space - or rather, the necessary bandwidth - I would be delighted to join.
Added. I’ve guessed your initials to be WTW: if wrong, please correct.
Thanks so very much J. My initials are WHW, though I'll change my middle name to Taylor as the price of admission. I shall stand by for, in due course, joining instructions by PM.
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Current draft of the paperwork has been updated.
Will W. wrote: 23:50 Fri 03 Apr 2020My initials are WHW
Fixed. Google was not unambiguous — but I chose wrongly. “William”, or “Will”?
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jdaw1 wrote: 19:44 Sat 04 Apr 2020 Current draft of the paperwork has been updated.
Will W. wrote: 23:50 Fri 03 Apr 2020My initials are WHW
Fixed. Google was not unambiguous — but I chose wrongly. “William”, or “Will”?
"Will" or "Bill," in accordance with others' preferences; most call me Bill. "William" conjures visions in my mind of short pants and propeller beanies.
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Will W. wrote: 23:59 Sat 04 Apr 2020"Will" or "Bill," in accordance with others' preferences; most call me Bill.
‘Will’ chosen to match your name on this bulletin board. Done.
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Is there room for one more?
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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DRT wrote: 08:13 Mon 06 Apr 2020 Is there room for one more?
Derek added to the Zoom invite :660000:
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Does anybody else need two rows on the guessing page? Rephrased, who else is bringing two?
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At 1800 tomorrow (& finishing at approx 1845), 67 Pall Mall are holding a free-for-all virtual tasting with Jasper Morris MW. The theme is Red Burgundy 09 vs 10.

Further detail here:
https://www.67pallmall.com/events/tuesd ... -311310697

The link to join via Zoom:
https://67pallmall.us8.list-manage.com/ ... =d38ce10fc

I'm intending to partake as an aperitif to our tasting, and Mrs NAC and I have our Dujac Chambolle-Musigny 09 & 10 ready to go.

Anyone else fancy it?

If so, ignore the 20 max on the invite. There's now no limit.
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jdaw1 wrote: 19:18 Mon 06 Apr 2020 Does anybody else need two rows on the guessing page? Rephrased, who else is bringing two?
I have decanted for tomorrow, all seems well, so unlikely to double up!
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Pls cld somebody with a working home printer print and be the returning officer. (But print late afternoon, in case there are more changes.)
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"DRT" Decanted at 09:00. Quality Assurance completed by 09:15 with a positive outcome.

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DRT wrote: 09:20 Tue 07 Apr 2020 "DRT" Decanted at 09:00. Quality Assurance completed by 09:15 with a positive outcome.
0630 decant, also with positive QA. Indeed, some effort required to stop myself pouring a full measure...
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I have a printer - although I would require careful supervision, having never met any of the participants and being unsure, at this point, of the object of the exercise beyond convivial drinking. At any rate, I shall stand by to be pressed into service.
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Can I check what time we are starting today? Mike's invite suggests 18:00. I will struggle with that.
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Will W. wrote: 16:25 Tue 07 Apr 2020unsure, at this point, of the object of the exercise beyond convivial drinking.
Convivial drinking very very important. Subsidiary objective can be seen in the likes of this post (names of wines in left column; names of guessers in top row; returning officer enters guesses one guesser at a time; when all guessed bottles revealed; point for correct year + point for correct shipper; totalling confirms that most of us are rubbish guessers).
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CPR 1 wrote: 16:44 Tue 07 Apr 2020 Can I check what time we are starting today? Mike's invite suggests 18:00. I will struggle with that.
Was assuming 1930.
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nac wrote: 17:05 Tue 07 Apr 2020
CPR 1 wrote: 16:44 Tue 07 Apr 2020 Can I check what time we are starting today? Mike's invite suggests 18:00. I will struggle with that.
Was assuming 1930.
My assumption too
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Doggett wrote:
nac wrote: 17:05 Tue 07 Apr 2020
CPR 1 wrote: 16:44 Tue 07 Apr 2020 Can I check what time we are starting today? Mike's invite suggests 18:00. I will struggle with that.
Was assuming 1930.
My assumption too
Mike's zoom invite is for 19:00, so I was assuming then. Seems likely people may come & go?
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jdaw1 wrote: 16:47 Tue 07 Apr 2020
Will W. wrote: 16:25 Tue 07 Apr 2020unsure, at this point, of the object of the exercise beyond convivial drinking.
Convivial drinking very very important. Subsidiary objective can be seen in the likes of this post (names of wines in left column; names of guessers in top row; returning officer enters guesses one guesser at a time; when all guessed bottles revealed; point for correct year + point for correct shipper; totalling confirms that most of us are rubbish guessers).
Got it. If there is nobody better qualified (which would be anyone else), I shall give it a go. Could you (J) email me the forms and, if possible, send me a link to the port shipper abbreviations, which I know to be somewhere on this website? Also, at what time do we start? I was thinking 1930hrs though would appear to have screwed up already my first tasking (i.e., arriving on time).
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PhilW wrote: 17:41 Tue 07 Apr 2020
Doggett wrote:
nac wrote: 17:05 Tue 07 Apr 2020
CPR 1 wrote: 16:44 Tue 07 Apr 2020 Can I check what time we are starting today? Mike's invite suggests 18:00. I will struggle with that.
Was assuming 1930.
My assumption too
Mike's zoom invite is for 19:00, so I was assuming then. Seems likely people may come & go?
I must confess I didn’t check but assumed (wrongly) that it was the same as last time. I will be there for 1900 after seeing if I can learn some of Jasper Morris’ wisdom, taking advantage of the info that Neil posted.
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