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Glenn E. wrote: ↑22:11 Thu 04 Jun 2026That might be because the MAP-Pro you can get today is not the same thing as the old MAPP gas.

If we were parodying ourselves, that parody would look like this.

I used to have three sets of tongs, but now there seem to be only two. Maybe one was given away.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑08:01 Wed 03 Jun 2026Never a firelighter!

Modern firelighters, e.g. e.g., seem — this new learning amazes me — to be made of wood and wool and no chemicals.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑08:01 Wed 03 Jun 2026
jdaw1 wrote: ↑21:07 Tue 02 Jun 2026@Alex: do you light top-down or bottom-up?
I was taught to light bottom-up.

So was I. But there is comment on the internets, e.g. HomeFire.co.uk, preferring top-down: “But when you’re setting a fire in your wood-burning stove, a top-down approach is a much better option”.

I have two at home — used to have three, don’t know, maybe given to somebody — which I’d be very willing to bring to an event for inspection and perhaps subsequent experimentation. terribly wrong Bowerick Wowbagger? Not a good idea — your cellar too small. Possible destruction of tongs? Risk accepted.

@Alex: do you light top-down or bottom-up?

For tong purposes, do lava stones help or hurt?

Do people have opinions about Alex’s Dellonda Outdoor Conical Chiminea, H127cm, Black Steel versus a Harrier Steel Chiminea Large Outdoor Log Burner, for ordinary being-sociable purposes (very mysterious) and tong-heating purposes (very important)?

jdaw1 wrote: ↑19:58 Wed 29 Apr 2026please could somebody check the draft of the placemats.

Please could somebody check the draft of the placemats.

Also, I have a cache of 1880 that I have never tried. I assume there is no objection to popping one of those! ► A list of declarations since 1880 was sent in February 2009 by Rute Monteiro of Quinta do Noval. QdN: 1880, 1887, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1934, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1...

It seems to be a very long time since we’ve have had a Dow vertical. March 2017, {Dow,Graham,Fonseca,Taylor,Warre} × {1980,1983,1985} ; April 2016, A Double-Vertical of Dow and Graham ; Jan 2013, Dow magnums ; Sept 2010, Dow and Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira at The Crusting Pipe ; April 2002, so pre...

Yes please. I know that I have 1970 .

winesecretary wrote: ↑20:10 Sun 24 May 2026I am not available on the evenings of the Burmester, Feuerheerd or Hooper tastings.

There is an Ab Fab scene in which Patsy is unavailable on the date of a school play, before being told the date.

Which shipper(s) have we not tasted but who deserve to be tasted? Awkward word, “deserve”. Well, of the thirty-one shippers that have a chapter in The Book (B, BN, Cá, Ck, Cr, Df, D, Fr, Fd, F, GB, GC, G, Ho, K, Kr, Mk, Mz, Mg, Ni, N, O, QH, RP, RV, RO, S, SW, T, TH, W), nine are not in the first p...

The author read mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. It was there that I ﬁrst tasted Port—that evening early in October 1987 I didn’t yet have the wit to note which, but from what I later learnt of what the cellar then held, it might have been Taylor 1970. Immediately I knew that Port was the ...

Please, the JDAW-MPM chateaubriand is, rather than rare, actually blue, and actually in italics (though oblique would be reluctantly acceptable — your browser might do its own thing).

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑07:40 Thu 21 May 2026I agree that for as long as the wines are labelled purely as Quinta do Passadouro, we should continue to use the abbreviation Ps. (And when the label changes to show it's a sub-region of Noval, I really like NPs.)

Agreed.

1970 Wine Society bottlings, the twelve of which I know: Cockburn, Croft, Cálem Foz, Dow, Fonseca, Graham, Martinez, Noval, Sandeman, Smith Woodhouse, Taylor, Warre. Of course, there is an obvious question, to which the answer is: Ck1870, G70; Ck72, N73; N75, RV75; N81; Cr84, FG84, SW84; CM86; D87, ...

Glenn E. wrote: ↑22:46 Tue 19 May 2026I suggest NPs so that the relationship to Ps is clearer.

No objection to NPs.

I know, I know what you are thinking: jdaw1 is just so agreeable.

I believe that we should be retiring the abbreviation Ps for Quinta do Passadouro now it is owned by and contiguous with the vineyards of Noval. I will politely assume that you mean retiring for post-purchase Vintages, not for historic pre-Noval Vintages (i.e., pre-2019 ). Should this now become NP...

jdaw1 wrote: ↑18:45 Tue 19 May 2026Menu.

Quoted to help those on page 2.

Menu.

Please:
• Davy’s Scotch Egg;
• Davy’s British Beef Burger with bacon and cheese, as rare as possible, + skinny fries, + carrots;
• Welsh rarebit.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑19:42 Sat 16 May 2026Love the Irish bottled […]

I spy a theme.

flash_uk wrote: ↑19:12 Fri 15 May 2026Anyone up for sharing chateaubriand, rare?

Yes. My order amended.

I will not have eligible bottles, but please allow me a brief hope that it is not impossible.

Ok, that’s done. That little hope has now been extinguished.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑07:01 Fri 15 May 2026Oscar is intending for us to use one of his closure packs that he will be sending over to the UK shortly. Could you keep yours in reserve in case anything goes wrong with the sending?

Or save him the hassle and expense? Whichever, I am at your service.

Pls:
• Soup of the day (if not spicy);
• Chateaubriand, rare (with MPM) + skinny fries;
• Welsh rarebit.

Willing to play; would need to adopt; hence would understand non-eligibility.

Should a WineSoc representative be invited?

Oh, yes please.

I have a set of Quevedo closures that are awaiting drinking — they were to be drunk with AHB earlier in the year, but that complicatedly didn’t happen. I will bring.

I can make the Wednesday.

I recall this question being asked about Taylor 2000 and TVVV 2000.

The draft of the placemats has been updated. But with twenty glasses table space will be tight. Can anybody print to trimmed /A2?