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- Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:13 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: NY Times article on wine styles
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1317
Re: NY Times article on wine styles
Matter fact most were less than 13-13.5% for most of Napa's history until the 90's when it got hip to make high alcohol wines. My comment is off the track, but may be interesting. World temperatures have increased over a period of time -- say from 1980 to 2000, bracketing the 90's epoch you quote, ...
- Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:39 am
- Forum: Port Basics
- Topic: Favorite Port Quotes or phrases
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1035
Re: Favorite Port Quotes or phrases
"A Port's first duty is to be red," by Ernest Cockburn? I guess those who prefer tawny Port would not like this quote.
- Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:18 am
- Forum: Port Basics
- Topic: 3 Good Reasons to Drink Reserve Ruby Port
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5243
Re: 3 Good Reasons to Drink Reserve Ruby Port
I enjoy many of the Ruby Reserves mentioned here but I think it would be doing them a disservice to categorise them as cooking Port. Using the odd splash in an impromptu sauce when it is simply what is available is fine (I've done it with very fine Vintage Port so can't criticise anyone for doing i...
- Mon Aug 25, 2014 1:00 pm
- Forum: Port Basics
- Topic: 3 Good Reasons to Drink Reserve Ruby Port
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5243
Re: 3 Good Reasons to Drink Reserve Ruby Port
I use the Warre's Warrior Port for making an excellent sauce for grilled lamb chops. I like to drink the Fonseca Bin 27 and the Cockburn's Special Reserve. I sometimes take a bottle of one of those ruby reserves when I am traveling on the road so I have something pleasing to drink in my hotel room.
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:56 am
- Forum: Port Basics
- Topic: Flying with Port
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1537
Flying with Port
How does a bottle of filtered, T-corked, LBV Port respond to flying in an unpressurized luggage compartment, for example in a piece of checked luggage? Is there a significant risk of the T-cork being driven out by the pressure differential between the unpressurized luggage bay and the ullage air ins...
- Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:47 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Landing on Mars
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2808
Re: Landing on Mars
Where are we going to get the science and math teachers that will send out the next generation of technically trained innovators? I don't have an answer to that question. But I do have some 'discouraging words' to share. Rightly or wrongly, people make career choices and pursue paths of education b...
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:16 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Legacy of Lance Armstrong?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 5511
Re: The Legacy of Lance Armstrong?
I think sports doping is unfortunate. My son is a competitive arm wrestler in the 154 LBS and below weight class. He has twice arm wrestled for the US team at the world arm wrestling competition. My son does not dope and does not like any supplements or additives. He doesn't even like to take prescr...
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:03 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Landing on Mars
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2808
Re: Landing on Mars
I wouldn't quite agree with your first sentence. We are "importing" educated people (people with useful skills have a better chance of getting in) but raw intelligence is much the same everywhere. Less a disagreement than a tangential observation. I think that there is a statistical selec...
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:04 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Landing on Mars
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2808
Re: Landing on Mars
A very interesting hypothesis. Certainly there are limits to evolution that you've alluded to. Another thought I had pursuant to this hypothesis is that there may well be different limits on intelligence depending on the environment in which one evolves. In an easy environment where obtaining food ...
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:00 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Landing on Mars
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2808
Re: Landing on Mars
Pick up this month's Scientific American at the newsstand. It is a single-subject issue on Limits (including evolution and intelligence - which is increasing), and written at a general level. Some fairly interesting stuff. Oh no! That means the aliens MAY have evolved to be much smarter than we are...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:43 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Landing on Mars
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2808
Re: Landing on Mars
It actually is a big deal. Even proof of microbes (now, or even ever in the history of Mars) would add greatly to our understanding of how and when life arises in the universe. It might not impress the general population, but it would be extremely interesting to those who are thinking about such th...
- Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:40 am
- Forum: Port Basics
- Topic: PORT BASICS: Why do you drink Port?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2374
Re: PORT BASICS: Why do you drink Port?
Of course, because Port tastes good! It has a distinctive taste that is generally pretty different from other wines -- the sweetness, the strong alcohol distinguish it from most red wines. At another level, for me, Port fills a drinking niche that other wines do not. All of my other wine drinking in...
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:25 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Landing on Mars
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2808
Re: Landing on Mars
Pretty wild. I was born in 1956, which I think was before Sputnik. I watched the take-offs of the first Mercury flights. Now we are landing substantial probes on Mars. Incredible. Having said that, I did not watch the live video feed and don't know much about this other than that the machine is fair...
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:58 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: First TCA afflicted wine
- Replies: 1
- Views: 424
First TCA afflicted wine
I understand that a substantial number of bottles of wine are "corked" -- afflicted with TCA. By substantial I'm thinking on the order of 1:100 bottles or 1:1000 bottles. If this general statistic is wrong, please let me know. I'm relying on my memory of having read this somewhere. I have ...
- Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:35 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kids sipping wine ... is it better or worse?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1628
Re: Kids sipping wine ... is it better or worse?
We have long allowed our children to sip our weekend dinner wines. Our oldest, my son who is now 22 years old, rarely took advantage of this opportunity, only sampling when the wine was unusually old -- which didn't happen too often because most of my bottles were not too old. My middle child, my ol...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:53 am
- Forum: Port Basics
- Topic: Should "vintage port" be capitalized?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6130
Re: Should "vintage port" be capitalized?
I voted NO but do not have strong feelings either way. I think Fowler is saying that capitalization is often an arbitrary matter of custom. If I were writing a work of fiction that embedded the phrase "vintage port" I would try to be guided by how this phrase has been treated by others in ...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:27 pm
- Forum: Port Basics
- Topic: Cellar worthy Ports
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9615
Re: Cellar worthy Ports
I cellared a Quinta do Noval 1970 VP from 1981 until 2008. It was quite good.
- Sat Feb 04, 2012 4:40 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Do you feel this is hypocrisy or not?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 5260
Re: Do you feel this is hypocrisy or not?
Yes, it is hypocrytical. So, are the Napa producers OK if I bottle and sell a wine made in Argentina marked "Napa Cabernet Sauvignon" if I clearly mark on the bottle that it is made in Argentina? Of course they aren't OK with that. In the world of Intellectual Property trademarks are known...
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:05 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: "Life on the Douro" can now be purchased
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1283
Re: "Life on the Douro" can now be purchased
I ordered my copy. If it is as good as the various reviews I briefly encountered in researching this, I'm going to have a copy sent to one or more of my Port drinking friends.
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:13 pm
- Forum: Port Basics
- Topic: Vineyard Rankings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2472
Re: Vineyard Rankings
I don't think the making of Port is restricted to class A and B vineyards, but the higher ranked vineyards likely get more beneficio allocated to them. Maybe the lower ranked vineyards get a beneficio of zero and are thus logically eliminateed from making Port. I think the location along the Douro -...