For The Love Of Port

Perhaps an Ontario resident could place the order for you, with a delivery to Ontario, and be reimbursed by you.

F20 is an amazing tawny. We (Gang of Port) have found it to change over time after opening. Most bottles (they vary) open very hot (alcoholic) and then mellow over the first few days. After about three days they seem to reach a plateau and then seem much the same for a week or so, and then "si...

Spam (the canned meat), X-day (Church of the Sub-Genius), P. T. Barnum, "Goose" Gossage, Warren Oates, etc.

Type in your birthday (as in July 5) on Wikipedia for a list as long as your arm. Pick a few.

<snip>For crumbly corks, I would recommend the use of an Ah-So, a two prong things that is fairly easy to learn to use and become proficient with. Just don't let Peter M. from :ftlop: convince you to sharpen those prongs! [cheers.gif] <snip> Aw, c'mon, Roy. I only recommended that for people who di...

I966 Graham's at a casino comp dinner. I spent the next several years trying to recapture that nutty flavor. Unfortunately, I didn't know the difference between types of port (vp/lbv/ruby vs tawny/colheita) and spent a great deal of money on vintage ports (which take a lot of time and money before t...

Here's what is odd. I've searched both published and unpublished rulings for this case and found nothing in the 11th District Appeal Court log for it. So A little more digging found out this was only a preliminary injunction. Which means it hasn't gone to trial yet and no final ruling has been made...

Couldn't participate in the Poll as there were no choices such as' "Huh?" or "What's a SuperBowl?"

F20 is an amazing tawny. We (Gang of Port) have found it to change over time after opening. Most bottles (they vary) open very hot (alcoholic) and then mellow over the first few days. After about three days they seem to reach a plateau and then seem much the same for a week or so, and then "sim...

More footage here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZtxHlProWo

Very nice Quad-Copter filming. Also note there is an appeal for help for the family.

sorry for anyone that had a ridiculous dose of porn as the landing page during our down time. can you quantify what is a "ridiculous dose of porn?" For some folks it would be "any"; for other folks it might be an unstoppable series of pop-up windows. (I've seen both when a URL f...

Eff-tee-EL-oh-Pee (all caps primary stress; single cap secondary stress)

This (with the useful redirecting from ftlop.com) also tells people the URL of the website without further elaboration. Making it into a pronounceable acronym obscures that.

:scholar: Incidentally, this same effect is why cavitation (real cavitation, not just air entrainment) erodes boat propellors. Tiny bubbles (cavities) of vacuum form on the low-pressure side of high-performance boat propellors, and when they collapse, the water rushes back with enough impact to goug...

The bottle has to be tipped down enough that there is solid wine against the cork at time of impact. The bottle stops, the wine keeps moving forming a partial vacuum under the cork. Then the vacuum sucks the wine back, which hits the cork and drives it out a little way. Repeat until you can get hold...

Roy Hersh wrote:That you come back to this thread like three or four times to post, because you keep finding new reasons why you know this fits you like OJ's glove.

Top reason, right there.

Price is why I used to prefer Warre's Nimrod (a tawny with no particular designation, but similar (to me) to the F20). Nimrod used to retail (back when they still made it) in the low $30 range while the F20 was well over $50. :beat: I still have one bottle left (of several hundreds), but I expect th...

...if you can produce this comparison in 30 seconds. My all-time consumption by producer: (since I started keeping records at CellarTracker) Top six producers Producer - % of all my consumption - (number of bottles) Anime 9.3% Consumed (220) Beni di Batasiolo 8.3% Consumed (195) Nino Franco 8.3% Con...

Well, if any of you have not tried CellarTracker, let me recommend it. It's really a lot easier than you might think. Most of the wines you have are already in their database, so you only have to enter a few words from the label to get a short list to choose from. Pick one of them and then you just ...

There may be a new requirement regarding "automatic" tips for large parties, and how they are reported, but whether such tips are taxable has not changed. Tips have generally been taxable as income. Tips put onto a credit card are generally held by the establishment and held until the next...

Average? Zero; in fact, I have never used either of my port tongs.

nytimes.com seems to have a 10 article/month limit on free access. Perhaps you used it up on your phone, but not on your computer.