How to spell "Port"
Posted: 17:13 Tue 20 Nov 2018
I received a very interesting request today from George Sandeman. As many of you know, George is a figurehead and representative of the wines from the Douro region, especially the fortified wines. One of the ways in which he is working to distinguish the fortified wines from the Douro is to ensure that articles and online publications recognise that these are wines from an officially recognised Geographical Indication.
Hence we can write about Port and about Vintage Port.
George has asked if The Port Forum would be willing and able to be ambassadors for capitalising Port. That when we write about our favourite wine, we write about Vintage Port and that when we write about our second favourite wine we write about Late Bottled Vintage Port (OK, I made up the request for the second one).
I like the challenge and I am sure that if we are enthusiastic adopters of the practice George will be grateful. Given how much better we are at using apostrophes properly I am wondering whether I should ask our resident pedant to start a thread called "Capitalisation Crimes" to help us adopt the new best practice.
So please encourage each other to capitalise where appropriate and let's try to be good ambassadors.
Hence we can write about Port and about Vintage Port.
George has asked if The Port Forum would be willing and able to be ambassadors for capitalising Port. That when we write about our favourite wine, we write about Vintage Port and that when we write about our second favourite wine we write about Late Bottled Vintage Port (OK, I made up the request for the second one).
I like the challenge and I am sure that if we are enthusiastic adopters of the practice George will be grateful. Given how much better we are at using apostrophes properly I am wondering whether I should ask our resident pedant to start a thread called "Capitalisation Crimes" to help us adopt the new best practice.
So please encourage each other to capitalise where appropriate and let's try to be good ambassadors.