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jdaw1 wrote: ↑14:41 Sat 28 Feb 2026Food order.

Sent.

Will anybody be passing my work and able to take from me an unopened bottle?

mcoulson wrote: ↑14:20 Mon 13 Apr 2026Can I bring Josh along please?

Josh would be a swap out for Mike not being able to attend

Sure.

mcoulson wrote: ↑19:26 Fri 10 Apr 2026Shall I print then ??

Please do so on Tuesday. Monday-evening changes are not impossible.

Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑06:32 Fri 10 Apr 2026Unless there's an objection, I'll bring the Síbio with me

Added to the placemats, so the deadline for an objection has legally expired.

Harry: thank you for food order and bottle revelation.

flash_uk wrote: ↑22:18 Wed 08 Apr 2026Ok I’m now up for this. Count me in.

Mike: obvious questions.

uncle tom wrote: ↑13:18 Mon 06 Apr 2026..how does the last Thursday in September work for people, the 24th - any conflicts?

Boot & Flogger sometimes charges corkage on a Thursday, but — so far — not on a Tuesday.

My choices from the dining menu:
◊ Scotch egg;
◊ Burger (as rare as allowed) + cheese + bacon, + skinny fries;
◊ Welsh rarebit.

Christopher wrote: ↑09:52 Sun 05 Apr 2026We did not drink much of the Vesuvio saving it for another day. In hindsight opening it may have been an error.

To take home I was donated a fraction of the VC11, about which not all of Christopher’s sentence is strictly true.

Updating placemats. Nobody assigned to 1924, ’70, ’85, ’97, 2000, nor to Ervamoira 1994. For some of these, their absence would be surprising .

Missing food orders: Neil; Jason; Harry; Tom.

To help the organiser, added to the placemats’ last page, the distillation log, is an auto-generated list of who might be bringing which bottles.

Christopher wrote: ↑17:26 Thu 02 Apr 2026It’s quite efficient for a horizontal tasting, you only need one glass

Christopher’s “efficient” tasting:

Most mixed I’ve seen? Factory House; Confraria; Unidido. Then this.

uncle tom wrote: ↑15:25 Wed 01 Apr 2026if there's space for me to squeeze in

There is space.

uncle tom wrote: ↑15:25 Wed 01 Apr 2026I have one or two interesting bottles

This is an understatement.

To help the organiser, added to the placemats’ last page, the distillation log , is an auto-generated list of who is bringing which bottles (for those known), and which do not have an assigned bringer. It currently ends Bottles without: SW70; GC70; SW77; QH77; SW80; QH80; SW85; GC85; GC94; SW00; QH0...

The only appropriate bottle I have is QH94, so I must bring that.

Phil: your recent proposal doubtless has many fine technical merits. Pray tell, could a tasting organiser, and hypothetically a tasting organiser who has had his share of the Port being tasted, be confident of being able to effect it accurately?

nac wrote: ↑22:00 Sun 29 Mar 2026Assume room booked? First post not entirely positive about this.

Good to check: yes, room booked.

Financial markets have much used (links to be posted when sober) a trimmed mean, ignoring the upper and lower quartiles. Is there a workable version of this useable by us?

Conky wrote: ↑11:15 Fri 16 Nov 2007It would be similat to finding the Holy Grail, Liverpool winning the Premiership

Apologies for my tardiness here, but since that post in late 2007 this has actually happened, in “2019-20, 2024-25” (that website wrongly using hyphens instead of en-dashs).

Justin K wrote: ↑18:43 Sun 29 Mar 2026The reason is that at €88.08 it is worth the risk

Behold: sunk-cost fallacy at large.

flash_uk wrote: ↑14:39 Sun 29 Mar 2026Anyone want to share a chateaubriand?

Yes please.

Neil: pls change my pie to this, blue, and please could I sit next to Mike.

Bump, to remind attendees of the existence of this SW+GC+QH triple-vertical.

Martin, Alex, Charles, Harry: please reveal.

All: from the menu, please choose.

You have decided that TSF (boo hiss!) might send a malicious voter, but you seem to have decided that it would be a stupid malicious voter. Merely reversing the order is a light-weight thing to do. Such an infiltrator should give nothing to the Port that would otherwise be top, and maximum points to...

From the menu, please:
• Scotch egg;
• Pie of the day (if meat) + skinny fries;
• Welsh rarebit.

The math might work fine, but I believe there are two inherent flaws in your base assumption. The first flaw is that all of Moses descendants will drink Port at the same rate as Moses. With the decline in drinking overall in the latest generations, this is probably not a good assumption. The second...

On the approved TPF model, the correct amount of port to own is an amount that your descendants unto the fourth generation will not be able to get through at the same rate. So, for your 75 bottles a year, somewhere around 9,000 will see you through. Him + 3 children (let’s assume per generation). +...

Bertie3000 wrote: ↑19:33 Thu 26 Mar 2026Hi Neil I mentioned I had a bottle of Justerini & Brooks 1960. Happy to include or not. I appreciate the table is getting busy!

Added to the placemats, as shown in the images in the first post.

So you are seeking an avearge cost per page? Sure, have a column of count, count*pages, count*pages*price, and do what needs to be done.

But the model is flawed: you are assuming covers are free. Surely you should fit a linear, costing being covers + numPages * perPage.

This question just seen. Sigh. Why weighting the average of the columns? Seems weird to do that by page count. You need three summary rows: • number books = TopRow * CountIfs(…, ">0") • total cost = SumProduct(…, …) • Ratio of these two. If you must weight by pages — takes all sorts — then...

nac wrote: ↑14:56 Wed 25 Mar 2026If you're OK to, please bring the Niepoort, plus the Graham and the RCV (as team adoptions).

The placemats have been updated, hopefully correctly.

Good temperature: 56°F ≈ 13°C.

uncle tom wrote: ↑07:20 Wed 25 Mar 2026I have a lone Real Compania Velha 60 that's been patiently waiting in my cellar for a tasting event for the past fifteen years.

I am not the organiser, but would much prefer having the Niepoort.

I have added a Niepoort Vinha Velha to the line for educational purposes. Long ago my mother explained to me that her father, my maternal grandfather, was always very tight with his pennies. He was. But if her childhood self could justify to her father that something was “educational”, that was rel...

nac wrote: ↑17:19 Sat 21 Mar 2026With exception of Tom (awaiting confirmation) believe the list of bottles is now complete.

Please allow me to be surprised by the omission of Dow, and of Ramos Pinto, and of Niepoort.

Tested:

nac wrote: ↑16:17 Tue 10 Mar 2026Have started to do bottle allocations, but not complete yet. So, ignore the listings in the first two posts. May not be correct yet.

Pls let me know when it’s done.

I will be at the BFT and briefly at the Boot and Flogger afterwards. I plan to bring over my Ck 60; will I leave it there or will someone volunteer to mind it till next month? If at after-party, I can. But I’m not willing to accept possession of the bottle at the BFT itself, unless I’m about to go ...

The placemats for this are at www.jdawiseman.com/2026/20260319_Ferreira_NewJersey.pdf.

Links: Review of the evening as a whole ; TNs: 1966 Taylor ; 1966 Fonseca (PW) ; 1966 Fonseca (AHB) ; 1966 Croft ; 1966 Gould Campbell ; 1966 Smith Woodhouse ; 1966 Dow ; 1966 Graham ; 1966 Warre ; 1966 Ferreira ; 1966 Sandeman ; 1966 Avery ; 1966 Constantino ; 1966 Quinta do Noval ; 1966 Quinta do ...