For The Love Of Port

Al B. wrote:

Glenn E. wrote:Or I’ll just drink a case of 40s.

And then Glenn mentioned 40YO Tawny and all became clear. There wasn’t about to be a case of 1945s removed from the world.

Ah, that’s what he is planning to drink to while reading a book called Port Vintages. How strange.

Glenn E. wrote:Or I'll just drink a case of 40s.

If you get through the book in a dozen bottles, then you drink slowly or read fast. Or both.

An ambiguous message was been received from the fulfilment company, at about 4pm today = Fri 30th Nov. > Just to let you know, the job is ready for dispatch. I will have the bulks dispatched on Monday, so you should receive yours by Tuesday. Given that fifty are being delivered to me, that might mea...

Received from fulfilment company at about 4pm yesterday (Wed 28th Nov): > Just to let you know, within the past hour we have took delivery of the books – 3 pallets. Two copies were sent by the printer directly to my home, and it looks good. I’m confident you will be pleased. Reading it will take you...

The printer has sent me a picture of an unfolded hardback cover, which will be attached to the inside pages tomorrow, Tue 27th Nov.

Thanks Julian for the hard work to produce an historic tome on Port Vintages that all of us will be using for the rest of our lives and I can now "retire" my old Suckling book. His book, which had that decent list of vintages at the end of the book was far from complete. But I am positive...

The shop is closed. Supply is not quite exhausted (about 90% sold), but for the moment the shop is closed. Cloth-bound books are set to arrive at the fulfilment company on Wednesday 28th November. Hence they are likely to be in the hands of UK readers early in the week beginning 3rd December; Europe...

Stock is running low, and sales are about to end. If you have, thank you. If you haven’t, then www.PortVintages.com.

Andy Velebil wrote:So in simple terms....order your copy now!!

The Moderator has commanded. Everybody, jump to it!

Pre-orders end at the end of this month.

There will be a few excess copies, but, in fairness to those who ordered early, their price will be higher. So order now on PortVintages.com.

(There is comment on it in the next newsletter, which might or might not be too late.)

I'm trying to decide if I should spring for the leather bound luxury edition ... I was prepared to pay the original estimate, but the final price came in at double the estimate. I'm just having a difficult time paying that much for a book, when I could instead get another Tappit Hen of GST. Or 4 bo...

what would be the most recent vintage included? Included at all? 2016. But the focus of the book is on ‘old’ Vintage Port, which is deemed to be ≤1986. I too intend to buy a copy. He did a lot of work on this. Looking forward to reading it. [cheers.gif] Thank you. I did. Good to hear (but at 395k w...

I’ve written to the PS➝PDF folks with details. Will let you know if anything results. I've sold the ps2pdf.com domain and it is now being run by someone else. I continue to keep the old service as ps2pdf.org . I'm not even sure how your email made it to me as the new owner should be receiving email...

Been using the wizard for a couple of years now. Doing a placemat for at tasting Friday. But when I want to convert the ps to pdf I keep getting a conversion error. Seems something changed? Hi Thomas Looks like something has changed in the ps to pdf converter. I'll ask Julian to look into that as n...

Some Englishmen consider Americans barbarians since we drink our Port much too young. Plenty of people in the States are already drinking 1997s and 1994s. In a perfect "English world" those wines wouldn't be drunk for another 20 years. However, I often point out to the British that their ...

Alex, please let Julian know, that I'd be very happy to help him promote his book. Beyond TPF, I don't know how or what he has in mind for marketing his book, but like the article he wrote on moving the IVDP to allow large format bottles to be sold, (which I spent a ton of time convincing him that ...

Thanks Julian, for bumping this forward. :clap: Whenever you release a new version of the software or a year or two passes by, please feel free to do the same and no permission is needed for this. As there might be people unaware of this software, I hope a re-statement of its purpose and non-cost i...

Are you actually overlaying inks to make black? On the color laser printers I've used (and other technologies for that matter going back 20+ years), this sometimes gives a richer black, but also one that sacrifices sharp edges. Some programs and printers will even recognize that you're making black...

So are you saying it is true that Orange is the New Black? Screens tend to work in a colourspace called ‘RGB’, which is about adding light to an otherwise unlit screen. Printers tend to work in a colourspace called ‘CMYK’, which is about absorbing light on otherwise-white paper. These colourspaces ...

Hopefully Glenn will add our local tasting placemats and even the incredible Madeira tastings that take place in NY every year. I maintain a list of placemats , which includes (some of) those not made by me and not used by me. Very willing to include more of those used by RAH and friends. But I wou...