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Greetings and Salutations!
Posted: 22:22 Mon 02 Apr 2012
by John M
Hello my fellow port lovers. I'm John M from lovely New Jersey, USA. I've been enjoying port a just a few years; my friends and I established an informal Port Club of 13 strong that meets about every 6 weeks or so for a tasting and to hang out with friends. We modestly drink mostly LBVs and some VPs and have a great time doing so.
Loving port is no easy thing. You taste a few and by and by you just want to taste a few more and then a few more still. Just when you think you're getting somewhere, you see one you had 4 years ago and you want it again to see if its evolved. It just never ends! In the meantime, you wonder why your wallet is always empty. It's a viscous cycle this port-life.
Thanks for letting me in here--I hope I can make a few interesting contributions and share a bottle with you someday, too.
Re: Greetings and Salutations!
Posted: 23:01 Mon 02 Apr 2012
by Alex Bridgeman
John,
Welcome to the Port Lover's Therapy Group. We're here to help. As my daughter said to me the other day "Self-acknowledgement is the first step to recovery." It's a pleasure to have you on board and I hope you'll find the ride fun.
Alex (sipping on a Croft 2004 LBV - which is really benefitting from a couple of extra years in the bottle)
Re: Greetings and Salutations!
Posted: 15:23 Thu 05 Apr 2012
by mpij
Who wants to recover?
Martin.
Re: Greetings and Salutations!
Posted: 15:45 Thu 19 Apr 2012
by g-man
Ah, missed this
Hye John,
was good seeing you a few friday's back
i'm trying to sort out a tasting / get together in may . be good to see you there.
Re: Greetings and Salutations!
Posted: 22:32 Tue 24 Apr 2012
by John M
Hi G-Man
Please let me know when--May is pretty busy but Id really like to join you.
Re: Greetings and Salutations!
Posted: 01:06 Thu 26 Apr 2012
by Deleted_User_1
Welcom John...I think it is getting near the time that us London crew head over the pond
Re: Greetings and Salutations!
Posted: 16:07 Thu 26 Apr 2012
by g-man
Cookie wrote:Welcom John...I think it is getting near the time that us London crew head over the pond
you guys say that every year, and the only thing that has happened is that Sushi and I went to london instead
Re: Greetings and Salutations!
Posted: 10:35 Sun 06 May 2012
by jdaw1
Welcome to TPF. The NY crowd sometimes have tastings, and we are all happy to muck in and help with questions.
John M wrote:informal Port Club of 13 strong that meets about every 6 weeks or so for a tasting and to hang out with friends.
Let me toot the thing I made. We use placemats to organise the whole tasting: decanting, glasses, people, votes, everything. The software that makes them, freeware costing £0 = $0 = Â¥0 = €0, is available via
www.jdawiseman.com/placemat.html. I and others think it splendid. (And there’s a
help thread, and some
the parameters used for actual tastings.) Well worth the time of somebody who arranges tastings.
Re: Greetings and Salutations!
Posted: 13:44 Thu 10 May 2012
by John M
Thank you all for the warm greetings! I have met SushiNorth & G-Man at an informal last March. Now if we could just get you puddle jumpers to jump, we'd have a fine time!