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Very excited to be posting my first tasting note! 80% opacity, dark red, slight clouding on rim, some legs. Nose, whisky (?!) some pepper, spice with dark fruit, plum, behind then rubber. Initially some heat and acidity, falling away to a more velvet long tingly finish with some tannin at the end. N...

Does it have to have excellent webmail in particular? I find I rarely use webmail, mostly instead using the iPad/iPhone mail app or if on desktop/laptop then outlook. If you don't like/want outlook then thunderbird is v good. If the webmail was less important then there would be more choice. Also, I...

Hope everything is tasting very good for you all tonight - would have likes to make it but wife had a night out planned so I'm home with the kids upstairs and a glass of port by my side

As ever with this type of thing, seems like no single solution has everything one would want. Had a quick look at cellartracker - looks good, but no facility to store photos. I'll maybe give this a try: Vinocellar . Seems to have both Apple apps and web front end, and an ability to export/import to...

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:OK final question from me

Doesn’t have to be.

Except that every answer opens up myriad new questions in my head! You can educate me more over a bottle of port some time

djewesbury wrote:Isn't that why TPF is such an important resource?

Indeed yes!

OK final question from me :) If new Scotland were hypothetically to go down the route of using GBP as currency (or equivalent pegged to GDP), issued new Scotland debt instruments, which were (somehow miraculously) not taken up by new UK financial institutions, and paid down the new Scotland share of...

As ever with this type of thing, seems like no single solution has everything one would want. Had a quick look at cellartracker - looks good, but no facility to store photos. I'll maybe give this a try: Vinocellar . Seems to have both Apple apps and web front end, and an ability to export/import to...

Andy Velebil wrote:When you are looking at a given wines page, click the "Upload an Image" link. (See picture) You may need to be logged into an account to do so, but not sure.

Ah I see - thanks!

OK, so is that concentration risk? Almost ALL of the future Scottish State debts would have been lent by almost ONLY UK financial institutions? On the sharing old UK debt thing, is there a theoretical solution whereby new Scotland issues a set of debt instruments in its name, equal to the value of t...

It's a bit harsh to classify this as meaningless drivel... :lol: I confess I lost the logic trail at some point. I think it was here: As the crisis develops, the larger country will realise that ‟If we don’t help, they destroy our banking system" Why is it that the "insolvent" Scotlan...

As ever with this type of thing, seems like no single solution has everything one would want. Had a quick look at cellartracker - looks good, but no facility to store photos. I'll maybe give this a try: Vinocellar . Seems to have both Apple apps and web front end, and an ability to export/import to...

Oh. I must be blind - missed that.


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As ever with this type of thing, seems like no single solution has everything one would want. Had a quick look at cellartracker - looks good, but no facility to store photos. I'll maybe give this a try: Vinocellar . Seems to have both Apple apps and web front end, and an ability to export/import to/...

http://www.cellartracker.com Great tool, and it's free. :D I did try this briefly, but found it lacked some critical functionality - there were a few aspects where i felt it was inferior to a simple excel spreadsheet but the one i remember most was the inability to specify whether something was hel...

Would be interested to know how everyone goes about keeping track of what they have in the "cellar". I know AHB has what sounds like a very well-tuned spreadsheet. What do others do? Spreadsheets? Apps? Other software? Websites? Nothing?

Just remembered I took a pic of the glasses (pre RAYC arrival, so only 4 filled)



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And note to self - in future tick more of those little boxes on the bottom of the placemat.

Edited: second note to self: don't leave your tasting notes on the table at TBH.

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What a thoroughly enjoyable evening, the end of which remains slightly blurry for me! Glad I did bring two bottles given that one of them as Julian noted, had a nose of motor oil (or a burnt/hot punctured run-flat tyre as Derek observed). Great to meet Julian, Derek, Rob and Alex - look forward to a...

PhilW wrote:

[b][i]Lord Flashheart[/i][/b] wrote:Haha.

All you missed was the exclamation mark

I like it! I had not thought of editing the quote to adapt the name...

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:And as I write this I realise I have left both corks wrapped in clingfilm on the kitchen table - is that a serious crime or merely a schoolboy error?

Bringing the corks and leaving the bottles would have been a serious crime. Forgetting just the corks is a schoolboy error.

Haha.

Mission accomplished with the decanting of bottle #1 and bottle #2. One cork out 100% but with a half split near the bottom which I thought made it a little risky to put it back in. The other cork three quarters out with the remaining quarter in a million pieces. And as I write this I realise I have...

A return to the homeland...I could be tempted! Bit far away yet to know if the diary will accommodate. Will try and firm up one way or another a few weeks before the event.

RAYC wrote:If you are worried about the cork breaking, it is not a bad excuse to open a bottle of red wine for dinner this evening (and save the cork....)

Splendid idea!

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:Could you please book it tomorrow?

If I remember. Do nudge me during the Bung Hole’s working hours.

Oh - thought I'd remind you of this also!