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Julian D. A. Wiseman
Publication history: only at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemats_list.html. Usual disclaimer and copyright terms apply. Also see the main feature, the program that makes the placemats.
Contents: Far future; 2019; 2018; 2017; 2016; 2015; 2014; 2013; 2012; 2011; 2010; 2009; 2008; 2007; 2003-2006; ≤2002; Grace.
Most of the placemats in this list were made with earlier versions of the software, and some required expert use of the program’s features. Also see the discussion about this page, and the main feature, the program that makes the placemats.
Some of the placemats, particularly those from 27 June 2013, are shown as small bitmaps, at 50% scale. These bitmaps were not consistently generated. A black 0.24pt line appears in some as a single faint grey pixel (“Apple Quartz PDF Importer”); in others as a black pixel (“dynapdf Importer”). For example, see tasting of 21 July 2015. If it matters, inspect the PDF. If it really matters, inspect a printout of the relevant pages of the PDF.
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23 Apr 2051 2011 Horizontal, planned very far in advance |
PostScript source, in case I should become, ahem, permanently unavailable. |
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21 May 2019 2017s (No placemats until declarations reveal what there can be to drink.) |
“We don’t know how the 2017 vintage will be. Perhaps it will be useful collection of single-quinta declarations. Perhaps it will join the illustrious list of all-time greats…. We don’t know. But we should test.” |
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13 Feb 2019 A Box of Vesuvio |
/Spirals true def /SpiralCentreFromCentreProportionRadiiInside 0.75 def |
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03 Jan 2019 Blind Emergency |
Maiden appearance of Spirals. Drawing these with few Bézier curves uses the function ApproximatingCurve, as discussed on comp.lang.postscript.
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13 Dec 2018 Unknown Shipper and Peculiar Friends |
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12 Dec 2018 1948s at Otto’s |
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11 Dec 2018 Offley |
% Extracts from parameters; some omitted /GlassesOnSheets [ [ 0 1 Titles length 4 sub {} for ] [ Titles length 3 sub 1 Titles length 1 sub {} for ] ] def % /GlassesOnSheets /PackingStyles [ [ /RectangularDislocation /GlassesNumMin 4 ] [ /Diamonds /GlassesNumMin 4 ] [ /DiamondsAndRectangular /GlassesNumMin 4 ] [ /RectangularAlternateNudge /GlassesNumMin 4 /ImprovementPointsMin 2 ] [ /RightSide /GlassesNumMax 3 /OnlyIfOrientation /Portrait /SuppressNonRightOrnaments ] ] def % /PackingStyles /PackingNestingColumnMajor true def /CrossHatchingInside true def /CrossHatchingCellArea 56 12 mul 2 mul def % Two pipes /CrossHatchingNumRadialLines 120 def /CrossHatchingCentreX {SheetNum 0 eq {0} {PageWidth 2 div 420 360 mul 127 div sub} ifelse} def /CrossHatchingCentreY {PageHeight MarginT sub Radii 0 get 2 mul sub} def /NeckTagsShowCrossHatchingInside true def |
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01 Dec 2018 Niepoort Garrafeiras, arranged by WorldOfPort.de |
/CrossHatchingTitles false def /CrossHatchingInside true def /CrossHatchingOutside false def Because CrossHatchingNumRadialLines = 180 the radial lines are 2° apart. And each of the curved ‘rectangles’ has area CrossHatchingCellArea, being about 491pt² ≈ 61.1mm² ≈ (7.8mm)². |
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13 Nov 2018 Blind Emergency |
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30 Oct Mature Single Quinta (or Second Label) Ports |
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02 Oct 2018 Cockburn Vertical |
Ten years after ThePortForum’s first vertical, it is repeated.
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12 Sep 2018 2016s |
No glass circles, instead sticky labels. |
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24 July 2018 Bring a bottle to share |
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03 July 2018 Bring a bottle to share |
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12 June 2018 Bring a bottle to share |
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05 June 2018 8s: Second or Fourth Digit, an ‘8’ |
The theme being ‘8’s, the placemats were laden with eight-pointed stars, octagons, and ±8° from horizontal. Upon reflection, maybe it was a bit childish — but only a wee little.
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15 May 2018 Royal Wedding: Port Fit for a (New) Duchess |
An echo of the “Port Fit For a Queen” theme of the E2>V tasting.
Some might be interested in a spreadsheet showing that each side of the heart is a single Bézier cubic. |
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09 May 2018 The Big Fortified Tasting: Masterclasses www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180509_BFT_ColheitaMadeira.pdf
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Details in the BFT 2018 Show Catalogue. On the day Sandeman brought their own placemats; the same might and might not have been true for the others. |
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08 May 2018 Something nice from the sixties |
In the printouts was a slight bleed, a very thin line of filled black showing outside the clipped white stars at the edge of the Titles. Henceforth this can be prevented by setting to false the new parameters ShapesTitlesClip, ShapesAbovetitlesClip, ShapesBelowtitlesClip, ShapesOvertitlesClip, and ShapesPlaceNamesClip. /FlightSeparationLines [ [ % +SheetNum 0 [ [/Top 0 3] [/Bottom 2 5] ] % <= 1962 [ [/Top 8 11] [/Bottom 10 13] ] % 1966s [ [/Top 3 6 0.5] [3 6] [3 4] [0 3] [/Top 0 3] ] % Golden White 1963 ] % -SheetNum 0 ] def % /FlightSeparationLines |
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17 Apr 2018 Magnus: Cellar reduction and health check |
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10 Apr 2018 1963s: A Second Wind? |
Several errors — I hope that my usual standard is better than this. SCD had withdrawn but was still on the placemats; DRT was on twice; and WG who replaced SCD wasn’t at all. And, after the event, comment was made about there being different values of OvertitleFontSizes. All of which was sloppy.
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05 Apr 2018 Tom’s Mystery 1922 |
The fonts /Didot and /Didot-Bold echoed the 1922 bottle.
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26 Mar 2018 DRT’s Protective Potion |
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14 Mar 2018 SQVP and mature LBV, blind |
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17 Feb 2018 Quinta do Noval in Leverkusen |
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15 Feb 2018 A New Subject of Her Majesty: Mr Wolfgang Starz |
Zoom-in on some of the many Union Jacks (in foreground filled in colour; in background stroked thin):
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18 Jan 2018 Port, Mostly 1982 |
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02 Jan 2018 Blind (Ideally 1878) |
DejaVu fonts are open-source, free, and cover a large subset of unicode characters. So tested here were /DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold (TitlesFont), DejaVuSerifCondensed (CircletextFont, HeaderFont) and /DejaVuSerif (NamesFont). Not much liked. Maiden usage of VoteRecorderMonkeyWhenShowTotalRow and VoteRecorderMonkeyName.
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21 Dec 2017 Xmas Tasting (Unknown Shipper and Peculiar Friends) No placemats |
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20 Dec Luncheon, Otto’s, 1927s No placemats |
1927 Cockburn, Constantino, Croft, Dow, Fonseca, Martinez, Taylor, and Warre. |
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19 Dec 2017 1977s |
 There are twelve n/m stars with n, m coprime; and inner radius, and angle at point, between that of a 7/2 and 7/3. These are 5/2, 7/2, 7/3, 8/3, 11/4, 12/5, 13/5, 17/7, 18/7, 19/8, 22/9, and 26/11. But the output wasn’t elegant: the high‑n stars looked too similar. Also, the spelling error is regretted. |
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30 Nov Sandemans and 1970s (for the Placemat Software’s 15th anniversary) |
Cancelled (venue booking failure) On 30 Nov 2002 placemats switched from being artisanal to being industrial. These placemats—more accurately, the glasses pages of these placemats—are very similar to the not-used last of the artisanals. |
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29 Nov 2017 Cálem |
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02 Nov 2017 1970 Sighted, no duplicates |
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19 Oct 2017 Mature V.P. or L.B.V., blind, ideally in decanters |
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10 Oct 2017 Gould Campbell, 1924 to 1997 |
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28 Sep 2017 “Bring a container of port, or something a bit like port, to share with port-lovers” |
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07 Sep 2017 SQVP Blind |
Two of the fonts were not the most splendid victory. /CircletextFont /Estelle def /NamesFont /DobkinScript def
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09 Aug 2017 Summer Thirst, Blind |
The parameter VoteRecorderCrossedBox is not intuitive to use. Perhaps the parameter could be somehow reorganised: suggestions welcomed. /JDAW (JDA) {-0.04 Kern} (W)] def … /VoteRecorderCrossedBox {VoteRecorderShowTotalRow VoteRecorderSheetNum GetEU dup {pop Titles WithinTitles get ASCIIfy ThisName ASCIIfy eq ThisName length 0 gt ThisName JDAW ne and and Titles WithinTitles get JDAW eq ThisName (IDJ) eq and or} if} def
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01 Aug 2017 Bring a Bottle of Port, or of Something Else, Blind or Not |
 Elegant design: /ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [/Star] def /ShapesTitlesFill {1 setgray fill} def /InlineTitles false def |
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13 July 2017 La nuit avant le jour de Bastille |
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21 June 2017 Portugal, including The Factory House |
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08 June 2017 1967s |
 /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [/Flower /Star /Heart] def /ShapesTitlesFill {1 setgray fill} def /ShapesTitlesStroke {0 setgray 0.18 setlinewidth stroke} def |
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24 May 2017 Anything But Vintage IV, Blind, and Optionally for Somebody |
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10 May 2017 Bring a bottle blind |
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26 Apr 2017 Charity tasting at DFW in the Cheesegrater, arranged by AHB |
It is very rare to have seven glasses on a single /A4. |
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19 Apr 2017 Bring a bottle of port to share |
First use of /Harrington font since 20th September 2016; first use of /MidGrey since the Dow magnums on 17th January 2013 (4¼ years before); and the first use of /MidGrey with a serif font since 22nd March 2012 (5 years before); and the first use of /MidGrey with /Harrington since 20th November 2008 (8½ years before), the previous occasion having been 26th December 2007 (shortly before that, 9⅓ years before this). /TitlesFont /Harrington def /CircletextFont /Harrington def /ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def /ExclusionAnnulusProportionInnerRadiusTitlesAboveBelow 0.005 def /CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 18 def /CircletextMaxFontSizeProportionRadius 0.2 def /InlineTitles false def /CrossHatchingInside true def /CrossHatchingTitles false def
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06 Apr 2017 1955s |
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22 Mar 2017 Bring a Blind Bottle |
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09 Mar 2017 {Dow,Graham,Fonseca,Taylor,Warre} × {1980,1983,1985} |
Several images of this set of placemats were posted on JancisRobinson.com, and the tasting itself was reviewed in the weekend edition of the Financial Times (posted online late on 31 March 2017). /GlassesOnSheets [ [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 ] [ 6 7 8 9 10 11 ] [ 12 13 14 ] ] def % Omitting some less interesting parameters /PackingNestingColumnMajor true def /PackingStyles [ [ /RectangularDislocation /GlassesNumMin 5 ] /RightSide ] def
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01 Mar 2017 An Introductory Port Tasting |
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04 Feb 2017 CUTwC’s 62nd Annual Dinner |
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04 Feb 2017 1977s in Leverkusen |
Stars made as for tasting on 01 Feb 2017.
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01 Feb 2017 1977 from Magnum and Tappit Hen |
/Magnum (Magnum) def /TappitHenSans [(T) {-0.08 Kern} (appit Hen)] def /DecanterLabelsNumCopies {Belowtitles WithinTitles get dup TappitHenSans eq {pop 3} {Magnum eq {2} {1} ifelse} ifelse} def Also a very complicated PrologueCode, which creates [n,m] data and forms for the stars, then execformed by PaintBackgroundInsideGlassCircles (with /InlinePrefillWhite true def). That allowed the stars’ parameters to be computed together, to maximise resonance with CirclearraysN.
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04 Jan 2017 Bring a Blind Bottle |
Maiden use of PaintBackgroundInsideGlassCircles.
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15 Dec 2016 The Traditional Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends |
/GlassesNumCopies 0 def |
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14 Dec 2016 Luncheon at Otto’s |
/GlassesNumCopies 0 def |
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13 Dec 2016 Quinta do Noval |
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23 Nov 2016 Bring a Bottle, Sighted |
/LogThisExtra (Glasses on these sheets might be the cover photograph of The Book. Hence: Names omitted from Circlearrays, though not from CirclearraysTastingNotes etc; and three copies of JDAW glasses sheets, to allow post-spillage retakes.) def For which purpose: /JDAW [(JDA) {-0.05 Kern} (W)] def /Circlearrays [ CirclearraysTastingNotes {dup length 2 ge {dup length 1 sub 0 exch getinterval} if} forall ] def /GlassesOnSheets [ [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 ] [ 0 2 3 4 5 ] % AHB and his SW63 are expected to be late, % meaning presumably post-photographs ] def % /GlassesOnSheets /GlassesNumCopies {ThisName JDAW eq {3} {1 SheetNum sub} ifelse} def The branding of its cork revealed the purported SW
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19 Nov 2016 Cálem vertical in Leverkusen |
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15 Nov 2016 Dinner with Johnny Symington at the Naval & Military Club |
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12 Oct 2016 Seventy or Seventy-Seven |
Placemats made by Mike Meehan. |
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03 Oct 2016 DrDirk in London No placemats |
Blind: Dow 1970; Graham 1980; Churchill 1985. |
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20 Sep Port and Steak |
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16 Aug 2016 An Alex Emergency: Bring a blind bottle to share |
/TitlesFont /Geo112ThinBold /def
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20 July 2016 Anything But Vintage III |
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June 2016 Drinks on becoming a ‘Cavaleiro’ of the Confraria do Vinho do Porto www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160600_Knights_of_the_Round_Table.pdf |
Font: /LucidaSansUnicode. |
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15 June 2016 A trial of Fonseca 1963 |
After the placemats were printed it was discovered that the “proposed GC70 is actually Oporto-bottled”, so it was replaced by a Warre 1963; and “a small issue with the BN55 — in that I could not find it! Can I respectfully offer another 55 — A Mackenzie bottled by J Harvey and Sons Bristol.”
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19 May 2016 66@50 www.planetmeehan.com/dlfiles/160519/160519_1966_Horizontal.pdf |
Placemats made by Mike Meehan. |
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30 Apr 2016 “Sensational Sercial” |
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21 Apr 2016 Her Majesty is Ninety: A Double-Vertical of Dow and Graham (with Oscar, before the BFT) |
These placemats caused re-observation, and this time understanding, of a bug in Adobe Distiller. If FlightSeparationPaintSeparately is false and there are multiple lines on one page, the apparent ends of some lines are controlled by setlinejoin rather than setlinecap. (See manual.)
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16-17 Apr 2016 FTLOP Madeirathon |
Maiden appearance of neck tags. |
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04 Apr 2016 A Life or Death Emergency — bring a bottle of VP, blind or sighted |
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01 Apr 2016 A small vertical of Graham, in New York |
Maiden usage of CrossHatchingOutside.
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17 Mar 2016 The Fourth Annual Doty Cup |
Maiden usage of ShapesPrintQuickerDistillSlower, and of BackgroundTextsDecanterLabels (both of which were added to the software for these placemats). Zodiac characters, ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓, in fonts /Menlo-Regular and /Menlo-Bold (seemingly with identical zodiac glyphs), made as follows. /Zodiac [ [ /uni2648 (Aries) ] [ /uni2649 [(T) {-0.04 Kern} (aurus)] ] [ /uni264A (Gemini) ] [ /uni264B (Cancer) ] [ /uni264C (Leo) ] [ /uni264D (Virgo) ] [ /uni264E (Libra) ] [ /uni264F (Scorpius) ] [ /uni2650 (Sagittarius) ] [ /uni2651 (Capricorn) ] [ /uni2652 (Aquarius) ] [ /uni2653 (Pisces) ] ] def /Circlearrays [ Zodiac { [ exch dup 1 get exch [exch {/Menlo-Regular CurrentFontSize selectfont} exch 0 get {CircletextFont CurrentFontSize selectfont} ] ] } forall ] def /Titles [ Zodiac {0 get} forall ] def /SubtitlesTastingNotes [ Zodiac {1 get} forall ] def /TitlesFont /Menlo-Bold def • The zodiac was too confusing for the sommelier. Next year Titles to be ‘1’, ‘2’, …, ‘12’.
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26 Feb 2016 1985 Horizontal at the Columbia Yacht Club in Chicago |
/FlightSeparationLines [ [ % +SheetNum 0 [ % +Upper line [/Left 0 -1.0] [/Widdershins 0] [/Clockwise 3] [/Widdershins 1] [/Clockwise 4] [/Widdershins 2] [/Clockwise 5] [/Right 5 +1.0] ] % -Upper line [ % +Lower line [/Left 6 +1.0] [/Clockwise 6] [/Widdershins 3] [/Clockwise 7] [/Widdershins 4] [/Clockwise 8] [/Widdershins 5] [/Right 5 -1.0] ] % -Lower line ] % -SheetNum 0 ] def % /FlightSeparationLines |
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24 Feb 2016 Vesuvio |
/PaperType /A2 def, then trimmed in accordance with /OuterGlassesMarginB 3924887 1696576 3 sqrt mul sub 6 mul 18161 div def (≈ 325.862pt ≈ 115mm).
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15 Feb 2016 Bring a blind bottle to share |
Activation of CrossHatchingBackground (renamed to CrossHatchingInside) and CrossHatchingTitles has become rare. Which is fortunate, given the clash with TastingNotesCirclesBehind. Bug fixed as of version dated 16:00 Monday 15th February 2016—too late for this tasting.
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13 Feb 2016 1966 Horizontal, in Leverkusen, arranged by WorldOfPort.de |
AP’s translations into German: /TastingNotesColumnHeadings [ (Zeiten) (Auge) (Nase) (Gaumen) (Punkte) ] def /VoteRecorderInstruction (Punkte, not rank.) def /DecantingNotesTopText [(V) {-0.06 Kern} (erkostungsnotizen)] def /DecantingNotesColumnHeadingTimes (Dekantierzeit) def /DecantingNotesColumnHeadingNotes (Korken, branding, &c) def /CorkDisplayTopText (Die Korken) def |
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08 Feb 2016 Bring A Bottle, Sighted |
Maiden usage of PagesToBeInserted: insertion of the food order into the PDF doesn’t break the page numbering, and that inserted page has an entry in the Table of Contents.
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30 Jan 2016 Home Drinking: testing a recent delivery (GM86, GM87, DB92, 2×WC92) |
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18 Jan 2016 The ‘We Must Drink More Port’ Tasting |
Made by Ben Read. |
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04 Jan 2016 Beer, then Young Port |
Test inclusion of the new Accounts page type (discussion thereof).
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17 Dec 2015 The Traditional Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends |
Traditionally in The Bell, Wendens Ambo; in 2015 in The White Horse, Newport. There are sticky labels, seemingly without glasses sheets. But the sticky labels are merely copies of what is on the glasses sheets. So there are glasses sheets, zero copies of which are shown: /GlassesNumCopies 0 def.
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15 Dec 2015 Seventy-Five at Forty |
Font /Albertus-Medium, as used for street signs in Lambeth. And precision kerning, both vertical and horizontal, in BackgroundTextsTNsTexts.
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28 Nov 2015 Fonseca, in Leverkusen, arranged by WorldOfPort.de |
Manual setting of FontSizesTitlesEquivalences, necessitating /FontSizesRatioTitlesMin 1 def. |
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25 Nov 2015 Horizontal of 1985s |
Complicated default value of new parameter BackgroundTextsAlignmentVertical worked well. Change in default fonts, Titles in /TrebuchetMS-Bold (sans-serif, pleasingly weighted, with bright negative spaces); Circlearrays in /Garamond (which I now prefer to /Garamond-Bold).
It is very rare to have seven glasses on a single /A4, here done with the packing style /DiamondsPlus. /GlassesOnSheets [ [ 0 1 6 {} for ] [ 7 1 12 {} for ] [ 13 1 Titles length 1 sub {} for ] ] def % /GlassesOnSheets /ShrinkRadii [0 1 1] def |
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24 Nov 2015 With George Sandeman at Otto’s |
Usually GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders is derived from GlassesOnTastingNotePages. But here it was more natural for the grey lines to separate types of wine, hence: /GlassesClusteredOnVoteRecorders [ [ [ 0 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 4 5 6 7 ] [ 8 9 10 11 ] ] ] def |
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27 Oct 2015 A relatively long-notice ‘emergency’ |
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14 Oct 2015 Woo-Woo not in Bangalore |
It has been said that “You can take the man out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the man”, and equivalently that “You can take the girl out of the trailer park but you can’t take the trailer park out of the girl”. (Yes yes, man/girl thing: I’m quoting; find something important about which to have a bee in your bonnet. This isn’t it.) The same is true of the placemats: even without placemats, there will be placemats. |
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21 Sep 2015 An Emergency |
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09 Sep 2015 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning Monarch of the United Kingdom |
Maiden usage of software with BackgroundTextsOrientation. BackgroundTextsGlassesPaintCode very faint, 127⁄128, because my printer prints greys dark. The /Cochin font looks good. Also see the letter from Buckingham Palace.
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14 Aug 2015 The Elliotts in London: Bring a Bottle, Perhaps of Tawny |
Parameters GlassesCirclesFadingFactor and GlassesCrossedOut added to the software for this tasting. Comment welcomed, ideally in the software thread.
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27 July 2015 Bring a bottle to share |
TitlesFont = /Cardinal-Alternate; CircletextFont = /BeagleCondensedNormal.
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21 July 2015 “[S]ome kind of emergency”, “Blind” |
/Rays true def:
And with rays emphasised:
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07 July 2015 iVin @ Quevedo |
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17 June 2015 The Sweet-Spot Vintages ({’66, ’70, ’77}×{D, G, T, W}), blind |
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03 June 2015 “Doty in London — Get it while it’s hot” |
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17 May 2015 Blind and atonal at Left Bank New York |
Though I dislike the numerals in /GillSans, the letters are very elegant, and nicely different to /Harrington.
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09 May 2015 1945 Horizontal at The RAF Club (WoP) |
Review in The World of Fine Wine, issue 50, 2015.
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05 May 2015 Fonseca’s Bicentenary |
Unusually, Titles, TitlesTastingNotes and TitlesVoteRecorder all different; and SubtitlesTastingNotes different from all of Abovetitles, Belowtitles, and Overtitles. Also, /TitlesFont /GilliusADF-BoldCond def.
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15 Apr 2015 Old Claret at Otto’s |
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10 Apr 2015 The Doty Cup, Elemental |
It would have been better if the parameter since called PackingNestingColumnMajor had been true. Anyway, Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Neon, Sodium, Magnesium:
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31 Mar 2015 Blint och informellt farväl till Magnus (och Dereks fem från ’65) |
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26 Mar 2015 Blind with a clue |
Having just devised the parameters to reproduce the pre-software placemats used on 12 May 2001, similar was used here.
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02 Mar 2015 Henry Shotton in London |
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15 Feb 2015 Lunch with Chris Doty |
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09 Feb 2015 Port from the 1970s |
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19 Jan 2015 Fonseca, incl. a bottle from an imperial |
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17 Jan 2015 The 60th Anniversary of the C.U.Tw.C.: Fonseca 1985 in Imperial and Magnums (how it happened), and some Noval 1955 |
Decanter labels without glasses sheets, by /GlassesNumCopies 0 def. There are other ways this could have been done. |
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30 Dec 2014 Dr Dirk in London (blind ’60s and ’70s) |
Font: /AccanthisADFStdNo3-Italic.
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25 Dec 2014 Three tawnies, and two Warre LBVs |
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24 Dec 2014 A Few Tawnies |
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22 Dec 2014 Available and thirsty for 1970s |
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18 Dec 2014 Unknown Shipper, Peculiar Friends, again |
Decanter labels without glasses sheets, by /GlassesNumCopies 0 def. On the small sticky labels (5×13 on A4) the CircletextFont is an element of Names; everywhere else it is part of the wine description. Hence /CircletextFont {TypeOfPagesBeingRendered /StickyLabels ne {//true} {StickyLabelsTypeThis 0 eq} ifelse {TitlesFont} {NamesFont} ifelse} def Also the wrong date: this error is regretted.
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16 Dec 2014 Off The List at the Boot and Flogger |
/SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes true def |
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26 Nov 2014 75 Years of Martinez |
Made by Phil Wakely.
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20 Nov 2014 Doty’s Thirsty Third Thursdays, blind |
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29 Oct 2014 Post-Refurbishment Bung Hole: Croft |
Echoing the formatting of the placemats of 16th January 2012.
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21 Oct 2014 Ramos Pinto: A Vertical |
/InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours {Belowtitles WithinTitles get length 0 eq {2} {1} ifelse} def First use of the functionality controlled by BackgroundTextsPrePourRefit, StickyLabelsShowBackgroundTexts, and StickyLabelsShowCirclearraysInCircle.
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Late Sep 2014 Portugal, Sept 2014 www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140922_dinner.pdf |
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18 Sep 2014 The Scottish Independence Referendum, 18th Sept 2014 www.danieljewesbury.org/assorted/scottish/Independencereferendum.pdf |
Made by Daniel Jewesbury. |
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18 Sep 2014 Thirsty Third Thursdays: ΦΣΚ |
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15 Sep 2014 Port and Steak on the Barbie chez Christopher |
CMAG brought Ni83; DRT brought F85; and I can’t recall what I brought. |
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28 Aug 2014 One Bottler (Hedges & Butler) |
Wrong date: 28th August, not 27th August. This error is regretted.
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26 Aug 2014 AHB’s Cellar Reduction Party |
Format chosen to match the bottle bags (Arabic numbers in Times Roman font), which is why not that agreed in the
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August 2014 House Decanter Labels |
Decanter labels only, by /Names [ ] def, which then causes the default value of TitleAboveBelowOverToFitInCircle to be false. |
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16 July 2014 Doty’s TTT’s Mature Sauternes, blind |
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16 June 2014 1997 Maturity Evaluation |
Lots of complicated parameters, available in full from the Param’s post. Much faffing with margins, so that those on the glasses sheet are different, MarginB being large. /FlightSeparations true def, and, even more unusually, with /FlightSeparationPaintSeparately true def. The first three items of FlightSeparationLines define /Closed paths, used by FlightSeparationPaintCode (“FlightSeparationLineNum 0 eq”, then 1, then 2) as clipping regions. Decorative lines, very thin, are painted. The remainder of FlightSeparationLines defines the boundary paths. FlightSeparationPaintCode does nothing with these until the last one, so these are in effect not …PaintSeparately’d. And that last item paints a thick black line inside a gsave … grestore, and then a less thick white line. The setlinecaps avoid bleed. There is a broader lesson from these complicated parameters. The program is written in PostScript, and is structured to allow, perhaps even encourage, code injection. In almost all parameters the user has full access to the whole of PostScript, and to the values of the variables maintained by the code. E.g., FlightSeparationLineNum is there to be used. That gives great power, but full access to that power requires being able to use PostScript.
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03 June 2014 Blind 1958s for Oscar Quevedo |
The most useful lesson from this tasting might be the explanation of the blinding technique.
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14 May 2014 Requested by Oscar Quevedo |
/ShrinkRadii [ 0 0 1 ] def and /MaxRadius 180 def to have larger table-wine glasses. /InlineTitles {WithinTitles 9 le} def for the differential patterning.
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30 Apr 2014 ‘Crazy 8s’ |
Example element of Titles: [(Ch) {UnderlineBegin} (8) {UnderlinePaint} (5)] Temporarily, /EmptyGlassesPageAtStart true def, just to make this image which was used here. Image having been made, EmptyGlassesPageAtStart was reverted to false to make the printed and retained PDF. Also, after the tasting, the maiden use of GlassesAnnotations.
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23 Apr 2014 1960 versus 1963 |
Six sheets used for decanter labels only, not-needed glasses pages being suppressed by code in NonDecanterLabelGlassesNumCopies (later renamed to /GlassesNumCopies).
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22 Apr 2014 1966: a small horizontal |
New version of code in which an upper bound for InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours is computed automatically (as asked on 02 Apr 2014), and in which CircletextsTweakSize causes Circlearrays to be tight packed (as asked on 21 Mar 2014).
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05 Apr 2014 DRT and his astronomy chums at the “SGL9 Star Party Tasting”. |
Some planets: ♂ ♃ ♄ ♅ ♆ ♇. Example element of Circlearrays: [ (Neptune) [{TitlesFont CurrentFontSize selectfont} /uni2646 {CircletextFont CurrentFontSize selectfont}] ]
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02 Apr 2014 Graham 1980: a trial |
Can InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours be computed automatically? An algorithm question has been asked on comp.lang.postscript. (Edit: done as InlineTitlesAttemptMinimiseNumContours.)
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21 Mar 2014 The Doty Cup 2014 |
/CircletextsMinCopies {WithinTitles 3 eq {5} {1} ifelse} def This gave the tightest packing. Does it suggest a need for a new parameter that automatically does a tight-packing optimisation? Hmm. Maybe. (Edit: done, as CircletextsTweakSize.) Also, the maiden usage of FontSizesTitlesEquivalences.
(Opening words of the twelve books of Milton’s Paradise Lost.) |
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26 Feb 2014 Not Drinking TV64 |
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18 Feb 2014 Thirsty at Half Term |
Crosses (✠ ☩ ♰ ♱ ☨ ☦), in font /Menlo-Regular, glyphs /uni2720, /uni2629, /uni2670, /uni2671, /uni2628, /uni2626.
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01 Feb 2014 The 59th Annual Dinner of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club |
Decanter labels only, by /Names [ ] def. |
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27 Jan 2014 Taylor 1985: a trial |
/VerticalMiddlingTitles /MatchNone def looked more elegant with the single Greek letters.
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08 Jan 2014 Blind in the Bung Hole ∵ Ronnie Visits London |
Vanilla, except /TitleMaxHeightProportionInnerRadius 1 def to constrain the size of the asterisk.
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02 Jan 2014 Bring a Bottle to Share, ∵ Dr. Dirk in London |
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19 Dec 2013 Unknown Shipper, Peculiar Friends, Revisited |
There are sticky labels, seemingly without glasses sheets. But the sticky labels can only contain copies of what is on the glasses sheets. So there are glasses sheets, zero copies of which are shown: /NonDecanterLabelGlassesNumCopies 0 def (later renamed to /GlassesNumCopies). The previous usage of the font /SnowtopCaps was ghastly. This usage was better. |
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07 Dec 2013 1955 Horizontal for Pilsen Homeless Health Services |
Made by Glenn Elliott. These appeared in the Huffington Post of 20 Dec 2013. |
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28 Nov 2013 ‘What?’, after the Berry Bros & Rudd Port Walk |
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27 Nov 2013 83@30 |
Made by Daniel Jewesbury. The ZX Spectrum font was very ’80s. |
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31 Oct 2013 All Hallows’ Eve: Remember the Dead (Blinded and Decorated) |
Fonts: /Firecat-Medium, /LucidaBlackletter, and /AmericanTypewriter-Light.
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11-12 Oct 2013 1963s, for AHB’s Quinquagenary www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131011_1963_ahb.pdf |
At 433 pages for a tasting over three sessions and two locations, much use of the PageOrdering… parameters.
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08 Oct 2013 Andy Velebil in London www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131008.pdf |
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02 Oct 2013 Port |
Oops: wrong date on the placemats. Wednesday 2nd, not 3rd. Anyway, another airing for the /Harrington font.
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25 Sep 2013 Bring A Bottle of Vintage Port (G70 magnum, GB70, T70, N66, W77, G??) |
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10 Sep 2013 “Bring a bottle wrapped in foil” |
Usage of VoteRecorderCrossedBox and VerticalMiddlingTitles.
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10 Aug 2013 FTLoP 8th Anniversary |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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18 July 2013 Doty’s TTT’s Champagne |
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10 July 2013 DRT’s Emergency, but cancelled and replaced with beer. |
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27 June 2013 Doty in London for Wimbledon and 1966s |
The /Cochin-Bold font has gravitas. Also, it was from this tasting that I started posting PNGs of the placemats in the organisation threads.
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04 June 2013 Griff Returns Down Under |
Maiden usage of RotationTitlesAboveBelowOverCirclearray.
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18-19 May 2013 Madeirathon www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130519_Madeirathon_GlennElliott.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130518_Madeirathon_GlennElliott.pdf |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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19 May 2013 Thirsty 3rd Thursday: The Riesling Lottery |
/GilliusADFNo2-Bold and /GoudyOldStyleT-Regular look good. |
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24 Apr 2013 2007 LBVs, after the BFT |
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23 Apr 2013 The Dirty Dozen |
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20 Apr 2013 1983 Vintage Port Retrospective www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130420_1983a_GlennElliott.pdf |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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18 Apr 2013 ThirstyThirdThursdays: The Price is Right |
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17 Apr 2013 Oscar in London |
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02 Apr 2013 1983-1985 Double Horizontal |
A rare use of BackgroundTextsGlasses. |
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22 Mar 2013 Taylor vertical |
Large Circlearrays array, from which other arrays and formatting computed. There are similarities with placemats of and referenced in the Graham and Malvedos on 13 Nov 2012.
See PrePourRemoveDuplicatesByWithinTitles, which was coded following this tasting. |
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21 Mar 2013 ThirstyThirdThursdays: “California versus France: Blind Smackdown” |
A rare use of PaintBackgroundCode, and, even rarer, that containing a use of MakePathConnectingGlasses. The layout could have been done with a blank glass and /PseudoHexagonal, but was instead done with /PermittedPackingStyles [ [ [1 1] [5 1] [0 2] [2 2] [4 2] [6 2] [0 0] [2 0] [4 0] [6 0] ] ] def, which also had the advantage of putting the glasses into the desired order. (Edit June 2013 and May 2016: since this placemat was made PermittedPackingStyles has been renamed to PackingStyles and its workings changed.) |
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09 Mar 2013 Velhíssimo Verdelho |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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06 Mar 2013 Blind at short notice |
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26 Feb 2013 Ronnie Roots visits London |
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21 Feb 2013 Partly-blind 1970 horizontal: Chris Doty’s ThirstyThirdThursdays.com |
/TitlesFont /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold def |
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20 Feb 2013 Alex’s Mystery Theme after the New Douro Tasting |
/CrossHatchingBackground {WithinTitles 5 le WithinTitles 3 ge and} def /CrossHatchingTitles {WithinTitles 6 ge} def /InlineTitles {WithinTitles 5 le} def /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours {WithinTitles 2 le {12} {2} ifelse} def (March 2016: CrossHatchingBackground renamed to CrossHatchingInside.) |
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15 Feb 2013 “Doty’s Triumphant Return” |
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06 Feb 2013 Some Churchill and some halves of Dow Bomfim |
/RaysLinesPerGlass 68 def /MaxRadius 130 def |
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26 Jan 2013 CUTwC Dinner |
Decanter labels only, by /Names [ ] def. |
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18-20 Jan 2013 Extras for a trip to Portugal |
Greeks only: /Greeks [ /alpha /beta /gamma /delta /epsilon /zeta /eta /theta /iota /kappa /lambda /mu /nu /xi /omicron /pi /rho /sigma /tau /upsilon /phi /chi /psi /omega ] def % /Greeks /Circlearrays [ Greeks {[ exch dup dup length string cvs exch [exch {/Helvetica CurrentFontSize selectfont} exch] ]} forall ] def % /Circlearrays /Titles [ Circlearrays {1 get} forall ] def /PrePourReverseOrder false def /PageOrderingNonDecanterLabelGlasses [ 0 1 2 3 ] def /PageOrderingTastingNotePages [ 0 1 2 3 ] def /PageOrderingVoteRecorder [ 0 1 2 3 ] def /PageOrderingCorkDisplay [ 0 1 2 3 ] def Sunday 20th only: /FooterCenterText-Backstage [ 0 2 4 {ExternalLinks exch get ( )} for pop ] def, which has never before been changed from its default value. |
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Lunch, 20 Jan 2013 Light lunch |
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Dinner, 19 Jan 2013 A Working Dinner with Christiano Van Zeller |
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Lunch, 19 Jan 2013 A Working Lunch with George Sandeman |
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18 Jan 2013 With Five Symingtons |
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17 Jan 2013 Dow magnums |
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03 Jan 2013 Blind (3×Ck55) |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. |
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13 Dec 2012 The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends |
There are sticky labels, seemingly without glasses sheets. But the sticky labels can only contain copies of what is on the glasses sheets. So there are glasses sheets, zero copies of which are shown: /NonDecanterLabelGlassesNumCopies 0 def (later renamed to /GlassesNumCopies). |
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05 Dec 2012 Borges muito velho and friends |
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19 Nov 2012 The Hix Oyster & Chop House EC1M 6BN |
The font, /PuritanSwash-Bold, was not such a good idea. |
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13 Nov 2012 A Smattering of Graham and Malvedos |
Arrays in PermittedPackingStyles (since renamed to PackingStyles); and many parameters auto-computed from Circlearrays. The formatting ‘convention’ is generally applicable to a vertical comprising a mixture of a shipper’s VPs and SQVPs, and works well. VPs are shown black, with the shipper name in the Belowtitles. SQVPs are shown with InlineTitles being true, and the Quinta name in the Overtitles. Variations on this had been used for the Delaforce on 24 Apr 2012, Fonseca on 04 Apr 2011, and Malvedos on 22 Mar 2010. |
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23 Oct 2012 A Trio of 1963s |
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20 Oct 2012 Blind in Los Angeles, 1 to 15 |
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15 Oct 2012 The Bung Hole, Delaforce 1958 and friends |
Flowers in /Calibri-Bold; and the first use of TastingNotesCirclesBehind. |
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09 Oct 2012 Blind, 1 to 6, in Portal Restaurant EC1M 4EH |
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24 Sep 2012 Warre versus Fonseca |
Placemats made by Phil Wakely, who included shipper-logo EPS elements. |
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18 Sep 2012 Mostly Sandeman Vau |
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04 Sep 2012 Blind and Mis-Guessed |
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25 July 2012 Olympic Years, ’48 to ’08, at the Portuguese Embassy |
A complicated array in PermittedPackingStyles (since renamed to PackingStyles); and a rare use of FlightSeparationLines. There was lots of code in the elements of Names, which in newer versions of the software can be done more easily using NamesTastingNotes, NamesVoteRecorder, NamesStickyLabels, and NamesPlaceNames.
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10 July 2012 A Blind Emergency |
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15 June 2012 Dinner with Miguel |
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14 June 2012 Some 1912s |
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13 June 2012 Dinner at The Yeatman |
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13 June 2012 1955s at the Sandeman Lodge (originally to be at the Ferreira Lodge). |
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12 June 2012 Graham at Bomfim |
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11 June 2012 Fonseca at Bomfim |
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06 June 2012 Farewell to our favourite waitress at the Bunghole |
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24 May 2012 JDAW drinking Croft 2005 LBV near the Bunghole |
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15 May 2012 Horizontal of 1970 honouring Ronnie Roots |
Rays and RaysLinesToPaperEdge. |
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02 May 2012 Post-BFT with Johnny Symington and the Graham 1952 Single Harvest Tawny |
The Titles in /TrebuchetMS-Bold (sans-serif, pleasingly weighted, with bright negative spaces) worked well, and worked well with Circlearrays in /Garamond-Bold. |
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24 Apr 2012 Delaforce Vertical, 1960 to 2007 |
This was then the usual format for a vertical of VP and SQVP: (e.g., Graham and Malvedos on 13 Nov 2012). But the variation in brightness makes it difficult to compare colours. Hence for this class of designs my enthusiasm has diminished.
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17 Apr 2012 Six × 1966 |
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11 Apr 2012 A Small Blind Emergency |
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31 Mar 2012 Roy’s Top 12 Tasting |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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29 Mar 2012 The Birthday Boys, ruby then vintage |
Striking variation in formatting within the placemats. |
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23 Mar 2012 “The Reserve Ruby Taste Off” |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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22 Mar 2012 JDAW’s oddments, being some unimpressive ports purchased in Paris |
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12 Mar 2012 Cynthia and Seven Blind Men |
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10 Mar 2012 “The Transcendental Terrantez Tasting” |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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02 Mar 2012 1980s in Leverkusen |
Rotate180AlternateNames; and font = /TrebuchetMS-Bold. |
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29 Feb 2012 The Annual 29th February Leaping (2012) |
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22 Feb 2012 Jubilee (though some of the ‘Jubilee’ connections were tenuous) |
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14 Feb 2012 Valentine’s Day at El Vino’s |
An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes.
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08 Feb 2012 Blind at The Bung Hole |
First item of Circlearrays is [ [JDAW {-0.12 Kern} {SubscriptOn} (1) {SubscriptOff}] ], which had been preceded by /JDAW [(JDA) {-0.06 Kern} (W)] def. |
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31 Jan 2012 A toast to Ko-ichi’s Retirement |
Perhaps both OutlineTitles and Rays was too psychedelic?
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16 Jan 2012 Croft in The Bunghole |
Rotate180AlternateNames.
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10 Jan 2012 The Bunghole: a splendid trial |
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03 Jan 2012 1977 at The Crusting Pipe |
A pleasing format for a horizontal. /TitlesFont /LucidaSans-Demi def, and /InlineTitles true def. Every item of Abovetitles is [(1) {-0.12 Kern} (977)], being a version of “1977” kerned by 0.12×the font size, and shown unadorned, so /InlineAbovetitles false def. But perhaps next time the CircletextFont should be a serif font, rather than /LucidaSans. Perhaps, perhaps not. |
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20 Dec 2011 Vintage Port at The Crusting Pipe (W70, F70, T70, D83, GC85) |
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15 Dec 2011 The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends, at The Bell |
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30 Nov 2011 Dead Cow & Vintage Port (Ck67, Mz67, Ck75, T77, W77, Mz85) |
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17 Nov 2011 RAYC’s birthday, a triple-vertical of GC + SW + QH |
This tasting caused the /Array base style to be a valid value in the parameter now called PermittedPackingStyles (which has since been renamed to PackingStyles). |
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16 Nov 2011 SushiNorth at TCP with QH77 + Ch85 |
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08 Nov 2011 Port With Star Quality ★ ☆ |
A compound string can include code that makes a path. Maybe this was excessive. Also the maiden usage of cork-display pages. |
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27 Oct 2011 London with StevieCage & RonnieRoots By request, no placemats |
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11 Oct {D, F, G, T} × {’63, ’66, ’70, ’77} |
Complicated placemats, with BackgroundTextsGlassesTexts, and code in parameters such as NonDecanterLabelGlassesNumCopies (later renamed to /GlassesNumCopies), PrePourNumCopies, StickyLabelsNumCopies, and HeaderCenterText. |
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22 Sep 2011 Made for a shipper |
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19 Sep 2011 A Ragbag of Good Port, at the Steak Exchange |
/CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 5 def, an unusually small value.
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01 Sep 2011 G-man in San Francisco |
First placemats in which the PDF has a Table of Contents, entailing the maiden usage of ExternalLinks. |
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19 Aug 2011 Emergency Drinking at The Crusting Pipe |
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08 Aug 2011 DB98 + TTF86 in Paris |
A rare example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes.
In the early 2019 code, an approximation to this look can be made with PostScript fragments resembling: /SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes true def /TitlesFont /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold def /OvertitlesFont /Baskerville-Bold def /InlineTitles true def /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours 10 def /ColourSchemeTitles /MidGrey def /ColourSchemeOvertitles /Black def |
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08 Aug 2011 Port from the Nineteen Nineties, at The Steak Exchange |
Non-constant RaysLinesPerGlass. |
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19 July 2011 With Richard Mayson |
Maiden inclusion of decanting-notes pages. |
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07 July 2011 Anything But Vintage II (the Warm-up), at The Crusting Pipe |
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28 June 2011 Three Blind Men, in The Crusting Pipe |
My preference would have been a little lighter and simpler, but was asked “… tasting in London tomorrow evening …. Please make your finest … blind tasting one-page placemat using as many new features as possible.” |
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23 June 2011 The Quest for Phil W’s new house port |
Placemats made by RAYC. |
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09 June 2011 A test of The Steak Exchange (T48, Ck67, Dl70, G91) |
Whatever weird folly caused me to choose the font /BlackwoodCastle, it won’t happen again. |
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13 May 2011 Sandeman Vertical |
The font /Didot-Bold worked well, especially for the two-digit years.
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06 May 2011 London welcomes g-man, blind |
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23 Apr 2011 The Port Society launches on St George’s Day |
The /Lautenbach-Normal font was an error. It’s horrible. |
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16 Apr 2011 Made for a Danish tasting that might not have happened. |
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04 Apr 2011 Fonseca Guimaraens, and some Fonseca |
The usual format for a vertical of VP and SQVP: see Graham and Malvedos on 13 Nov 2012. It was from these placemats that the log page was shown by default—the log-page code having been present since 20th January 2008. |
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03 Apr 2011 Pre-FG warm-up session |
Small variation of formatting by name. |
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15 Mar 2011 Blind at El Vino’s |
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10 Mar 2011 Port Worth Sharing, blind at The Crusting Pipe |
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24 Feb 2011 |
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22 Feb 2011 Half Bottles |
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06 Feb 2011 Emergency Tasting at The Crusting Pipe (Df66, Cr66, TV67, SW83) |
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29 Jan 2011 Tasting-note sheets for use at the CUTwC Dinner |
The only use so far, ≤2012, of /OutlineTitlesSuppressForDecanterLabels false def. |
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26 Jan 2011 LBV Old and New, Part 2 |
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29 Dec 2010 |
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25 Dec 2010 |
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19 Dec 2010 Emergency in Wokingham & Paris |
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16 Dec 2010 The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends at The Bell |
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10 Dec 2010 1955 Horizontal in Leverkusen, Köln |
Fonts: /Baskerville-Bold, /Baskerville-Italic, and /Baskerville. In summer 2011, the scaling of the pre-pour pages was much improved, such that the content became bigger and the wasted space became less.
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07 Dec 2010 |
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02 Dec 2010 Two Ports, total cost ≤£30 (perhaps cancelled?) |
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12 Nov 2010 Niepoort vertical in Leverkusen, Köln |
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12 Oct 2010 55s at 55 |
My enthusiasm for the OutlineTitles has greatly diminished. YMMV.
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28 Sep 2010 |
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27 Sep 2010 |
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07 Sep 2010 Dow and Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira at The Crusting Pipe. |
/ColourSchemeTitles {Circlearrays WithinTitles get 1 get (Dow) eq {/Black} {/MidGrey} ifelse} def, and, mutatis mutandis, ColourSchemeSubtitles. Is the look rather 1960s? If so, not wholly inappropriate. |
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Sep 2010 |
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26 Aug 2010 Blind at TCP (Df85, W70, QH77, Cá85, Ck75, S82) |
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13 Aug 2010 |
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05 Aug 2010 Anything But Vintage (I) |
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15 July 2010 Blind Tasting of 1970 Vintage Port |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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09 July 2010 The F-Plan II, in Utrecht |
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21 June 2010 1982 Horizontal at The Crusting Pipe. |
Maiden inclusion of vote-recorder pages. And /TitlesFont /BasqueThinNormal def.
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19 May 2010 1960 Horizontal at The Bowler |
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14 May 2010 1978 Horizontal at The RAF Club |
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06 May 2010 BMHR at an election party in Hove |
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06 May 2010 UK General Election |
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30 Apr 2010 Two Brits on Tour www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100430_BritsOnTour_GlennElliott.pdf |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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19 Apr 2010 Blind at TCP |
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17 Apr 2010 Warre II (1945 to 1985), in Sussex |
Excessively coloured rays, the RaysStrokeCode being at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat-code.html. |
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16 Apr 2010 Pre-Warre Exercises |
Elegant use of /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours 2 def (subsequently becoming the default). |
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10 Apr 2010 Whiskies from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society |
Tested: the placemats work with barley as well as grape. And /Rays {Circlearrays WithinTitles get 2 get (Speyside) ne} def |
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22 Mar 2010 Graham’s Malvedos Vertical at The RAF Club |
Maiden usage of pre-pour pages (though with a Penrose tiling since removed from code). This has become the canonical format for a vertical comprising a mixture of VP and SQVP: see the Smattering of Graham and Malvedos tasting for links. |
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22 Mar 2010 The Graham’s Vertical (G80 and G85) |
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17 Mar 2010 Emergency, ¾ flawed |
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16 Mar 2010 1970: A Near-Minimal Horizontal |
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09 Mar 2010 Bring A Bottle to TCP |
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23 Feb 2010 Vesuvio Vertical, 1989 to 2008 |
Page-ordering parameters used to split into two flights. |
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11 Feb 2010 Oscar Quevedo in London |
Very complicated Circlearrays. |
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01 Feb 2010 Bring a Bottle to the Library, with BMHR | The visual effect is cool, but not necessarily appropriate for a port tasting. Done with TitlesFont = /BasqueNormal; OutlineTitlesInnerWidthWhite = 6; OutlineTitlesMultiplierWhite = 0.9375; OutlineTitlesMaxNum = 96; and OutlineTitlesTargetTotalDistanceProportionRadius = 1.04. |
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01 Feb 2010 Bring a Bottle to the Library |
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30 Jan 2010 Decanter labels for the CUTwC Dinner |
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05 Jan 2010 Four at TCP (O70, Cr70, W77, N85) |
Aggressively kerned.
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17 Dec 2009 The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends, at The Bell |
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13 Nov Port To Share (Ck60, D63, D80, Fr63, F70, GC70, G63, G70, Mz60, Mg63) www.jdawiseman.com/port/20091113_share.pdf 1966 versus 1967 |
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28 Oct 2009 Portal Restaurant (Pç77, T77, Mg77, T63, D83) |
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23 Oct 2009 Au Relais des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris 19ème (KL70, Ch85, T85, Qv07) |
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14 Oct 2009 Fonseca Emergency |
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02 Oct 2009 Warre Vertical, 1947 to 2007, at the RAF Club |
For a pure vertical, without a need for VP-SQVP distinctions, the elegance is enhanced by the slender font /Geo112ThinBold.
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15 Sep 2009 Demonstration page |
As of August 2016, the parameter later renamed to MirrorPagesGlasses has not been used. |
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11-12 Sep 2009 DRT in Paris www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090912b.pdf |
Maiden inclusion of place-name pages. |
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08 Sep 2009 A Small 1994 Horizontal |
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30 July 2009 FTLoP 4th Anniversary |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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21 July 2009 Eighties Night at TCP |
/OutlineTitles {ThisName Titles WithinTitles get eq} def |
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07 July 2009 Farewell to New York |
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29 June 2009 The Best Mature Ports to Drink Today, at Quinta do Noval |
The parameter since renamed to CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute was deffed to 9. |
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27 June 2009 Lunch at Quinta S. Luiz |
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26 June 2009 Sandeman Lunch at Quinta do Seixo |
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26 June 2009 Decent Drinking Port at Quinta do Passadouro |
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13 June 2009 Fonseca Minivertical |
A rare example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes.
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11 June 2009 The Leaky Bottle |
From this version the naming of internal parameters was standardised, so that parameters could refer to the likes of SheetNum, WithinTitles, and WithinPage. |
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June 2009 Spares for Portugal |
/alpha /beta /gamma …; |
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28 May 2009 1977 Mini-Horizontal (Cr, W, Df, Guedes, SW, Fr) |
Placemats made by JES. |
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15 May 2009 Some Port for JB’s Class |
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18 Apr 2009 Classic years of Taylor, Fonseca, Warre |
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20 Mar 2009 Emergency Port (GC80, GC97, Rr95, Rr99) |
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13 Feb 2009 A Vertical of Graham’s in Brooklyn |
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01 Feb 2009 FTLoP Gala: Port, ≤1970 |
Made by Glenn Elliott. |
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31 Jan 2009 FTLoP Gala: 1977 versus 1985 www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090131_Gala_1977_1985_GlennElliott.pdf |
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31 Jan 2009 FTLoP Gala: 1994s |
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30 Jan 2009 FTLoP Gala: Madeira www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090130_Gala_Madeira_GlennElliott.pdf |
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30 Jan 2009 FTLoP Gala: Colheitas www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090130_Gala_Colheita_GlennElliott.pdf |
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30 Jan 2009 1970 Horizontal at the RAF Club www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090130_setup.pdf |
The instructions for the 1970 were assembled in Illustrator. The spelling error is regretted. Also, the maiden usage of InlineTitles. |
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15 Jan 2009 The Crusting Pipe: W70, TV67, MG85, F63, and a South African |
The font, /SnowtopCaps, is ghastly. |
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04 Jan 2009 Emergency Port, Round 2 |
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03 Jan 2009 Emergency Port |
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26 Dec 2008 Some Fonseca |
Both fonts, /ScottsdaleNormal and /BernieBoldItalic, were horrible.
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18 Dec 2008 The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends, at The Bell |
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20 Nov 2008 Old and Blind, at Portal |
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14 Nov 2008 |
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07 Nov 2008 Old & Odd in New York |
The font, /MarkerFelt-Wide, was a gratuitous error. |
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18 Oct 2008 A wonderful tasting of old Madeira, at Triomphe, 49 West 44th St, New York |
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17 Oct 2008 Ferreira in New York |
Six glasses on A4, /GaiaElegant (later renamed /PostsAndLintel). |
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09 Oct 2008 |
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08 Oct 2008 The Cockburn Vertical, 1908 to 2007 |
Good font choices, /GillSans with /Palatino-BoldItalic.
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13 Sep 2008 ’83 and ’85 Double Horizontal in Brooklyn |
Bad design — too much clutter. |
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18 July 2008 AJRH visits JDAW for a 1997 mini-horizontal |
An early version, imperfectly successful, of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. |
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11 July 2008 Old, Odd & Great, in Portal Restaurant |
A garish production of DRT. And 10.3 megabytes. |
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02 July 2008 Utrecht, Blind 1977s www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080702_1977_blind.pdf |
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25 June 2008 After Cricket at The Crusting Pipe: ports costing ≤£15 |
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20 June 2008 First Anniversary: La Sirène, 558½ Broome Street, NY 10013-1508 www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_jdaw.pdf First Anniversary: The Roots’ Martinez 1994 and Cockburn’s Ruby www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_roots.pdf First Anniversary: DRT’s Vesuvio 1994 www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_drt.pdf (Picture added using Illustrator) First Anniversary: BMHR’s Taylor 2001 LBV www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_bmhr.pdf First Anniversary: AHB’s Martinez 1985 www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_ahb.pdf First Anniversary: La Sirène, 558½ Broome Street, NY 10013-1508 |
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20 May 2008 Blind 1980 Horizontal in Wokingham www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080520_wokingham_blind.pdf |
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08 May 2008 |
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08 May 2008 |
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10 Apr 2008 Blind at The Crusting Pipe (G83, TV95, BBR83=W83, Mz55, W91) |
File naming changed from using hyphens (“-”) to using underscores (“_”). |
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03 Apr 2008 Roy Hersh’s Madeira Roadshow |
The feature CirclifyTitles was a very bad idea, and was removed from the code in May 2011. PostScript programmers wanting this code for some other purpose should peruse transformpath.ps. |
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29 Mar 2008 1977 Horizontal at Dovetail |
Ca → MsC. |
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14 Feb 2008 Valentine’s Day 1970s in Brooklyn |
What was I thinking? Just gratuitously gaudy. Also reprehensible is the redundancy between the Titles and the Overtitles (as they have since been renamed). Please, readers, do not do this. Additionally, Messias Cachão is ‘MsC’—more awfulness.
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09 Feb 2008 Croft Vertical in Boston, 1896 to 1970 |
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02 Feb 2008 1963s in Sussex, and a decanting experiment |
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28 Jan 2008 The ‘Deeper Underground’ 1966 Horizontal at The Crusting Pipe www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080128-1966.pdf |
The ‘holding bay’ kludge later handled in the code as pre-pour sheets. |
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19 Jan 2008 The ‘Up North’ 1985 Horizontal (D, Mz, F, N, MG, Cr) |
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03 Jan 2008 Colheitathon in Manhattan |
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Jan 2008 DRT’s 1970 “One-Man-Marathon-Horizontal-Off-line” |
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26 Dec 2007 The ‘Emergency’ 1985 Horizontal (D, I, RP, G, W, T, A) |
The /Harrington font still looks good. |
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11 Dec 2007 Vesuvios and 1994s in Bistro Citron |
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08 Dec 2007 Graham Vertical in Munich |
Event arranged by Axel Probst. TNs: 1927, ’45, ’48, ’55, ’63, ’70, ’75, ’77, ’83, ’85, ’91, ’94, ’97, 2000, ’03 |
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06 Dec 2007 Taylor versus Fonseca: |
It might be that the commercial organiser of the tasting had different arrangements, so these were unused—I don’t recall. But this was the tasting at which the author sought New-York Port-drinking company, and found it. |
| www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071206-fonseca-taylor.pdf | Not used, as subsequently decided that tasting would be semi-blind. |
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12 Nov 2007 |
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31 Oct Alex B. in Los Angeles (W63, TV67, S77, G75, SW80, etc) www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071031-alexbandyv.pdf |
Maiden appearance of water boxes (having been requested during the tasting at Bistro Citron on 29th October 2007). |
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30 Oct 2007 |
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29 Oct 2007 Alex B. at Bistro Citron (K85, W85, W77, S77, RV77, G85) |
Maiden appearance of HeaderLeftText etc (later renamed to HeadersLeft etc). |
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12 Oct 2007 |
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01 Sep Fonseca Vertical, 1920 to 2000, in St. Helens www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070901-conky.pdf |
The psychedelic feature was removed from the code in September 2009. |
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18 July 2007 “The Port Forum Offline #1” |
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09 June 2007 Derek T. in St Helens (D77, QH77, SW77, W80, W95LBV) |
Oops: “C” should have been “Cá”. |
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30 May 2007 |
Maiden usage of OutlineTitles. Perhaps this tasting was postponed until 9 June 2007? |
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04 Apr 2007 www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070404-Axel1970-plain.pdf |
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31 Mar 2007 “Al-C” (ACC), “Al-K” (ARK), and “Al-D” (DRT) drank F70, F85, F00, G63, GM87, D83, NN87, and Mz85 |
Perhaps the first time the software had been used to make placemats for a tasting not attended by JDAW. |
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17 Mar 2007 1985s in Sussex (NN, Ch, RP, Cá, RO, SW, N, W, D, S, A, M, +2) |
At least one bottle from THRA via a thread on FTLoP. |
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16 Mar 2007 Cockburn 1908, ’27, ’55, ’60, ’63, ’70, ’85; Taylor ’08, ’27, ’50, ’85 |
An early version of the TN page code, the name appearing at the top. And the /Cochin-Bold font still looks good.
The cork of the Cockburn “believed 1950’s” said Cockburn 1960. So not perfect, but not bad. In 2007 the abbreviation for Cockburn was “C”. In late 2011 there was discussion, others preferring “Ck”. I tried “exerting a little parental authority here: no. Cockburn had a century of being the most prestigious and highly-priced port, and for that reason is awarded the single letter. The records are very clear about the former (and perhaps future) relative prestige of this name.“ But no, the consensus was against me: it became “Ck”. |
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11 Jul 2006 Nacional 1962, 1980, 1985 |
The code that made this was 907 lines. For comparison, the version of 11th February 2019 is ≈15× longer at 13,669 lines, partly because it has twelve page types: /Glasses, /TastingNotes, /PlaceName, /PrePour, /VoteRecorder, /DecantingNotes, /Accounts, /CorkDisplay, /NeckTags, /DecanterLabels, /StickyLabels, /DistillerLog. |
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05 Nov 2005 In Sussex: Taylor and Warre |
This PDF made by re-distilling the original PostScript, as the original PDF had not been retained. It is possible that the used placemats had slightly different people. |
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09 Apr 2005 A boys’ evening before a wedding (D63, F63, N45, N60, N63, N66, NN66, N70, N75, N85) |
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21 Oct 2004 In Manhattan: three bottles |
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03 Apr 2004 In Fulham: N31, N45, N55 (single and magnum), N63, NN70, N70, S70, N85, N00 |
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20 Mar 2004 In Wimbledon: three bottles |
The page was guillotined down the middle. |
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31 Jan 2004 In Fulham Placemats file not found |
N60, F60, Cr60, Cr63, N63, F66, Cr66, Cr85, N85, N97 LBV, M&S97 LBV. |
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22 Nov 2003 In Fulham Placemats file not found |
W55, W63, W66, BBR66, W70, W77 single and magnum, G77, WC88, W00. |
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30 Nov 2002 In Fulham: Sandemans, and 1970s |
A draft of these placemats was made using Adobe Illustrator, about three weeks before the event. (The Illustrator file was converted to PDF in March 2015.) Placemats for earlier events were also made in Illustrator. But the used placemats were made in PostScript. So this seems to have been the event at which placemats switched from being artisanal to being industrial.
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12 Oct 2002 Chez RKA: excellent bottles
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Before the software: made using Adobe Illustrator, with the two pages in separate files. |
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13 Apr 2002 In Fulham: {Dow, Graham, Taylor} × {1980, 1983, 1985} |
Before the software: made using Adobe Illustrator. (The Illustrator file was converted to PDF in March 2015.) The names of the people are in the wrong place. Perhaps the names were guillotined. |
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12 May 2001 In Sussex: Taylor, Noval, Graham.
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Before the software: made using Adobe Illustrator, with the two pages in separate files. (The Illustrator files were converted to PDF in March 2015.) And abbreviating Quinta do Noval to a ‘Q’ is slightly embarrassing. This design can be nearly replicated in the early-2015 software using the following parameters. /Circlearrays [ [ (Taylor 1960) (T60) ] [ (Taylor 1970) (T70) ] [ (Taylor 1977 Magnum) ] [ (Taylor 1977 Single) ] [ (Taylor 1985) (T85) ] ] def /Titles [ (T60) (T70) (T77) (T77) (T85) ] def /Belowtitles [ () () () () () ] def /Overtitles [ () () (Magnum) (Single) () ] def /ThePortForumIconPlacement /None def /HeadersLeft [] def /HeadersCenter [] def /HeadersRight [] def /PermittedPackingStyles [ /Diamonds ] def /WaterBoxes /None def /TitlesFont /Baskerville-Bold def /CircletextFont /Baskerville def /ColourSchemeTitles /Black def /AbovetitleMaxFontSizeProportionTitles 33 90 div def /ExclusionAnnulusProportionInnerRadiusTitlesAboveBelow 0.1917 def /InlineTitles false def /InlineOvertitles true def /CircletextsTweakSize false def /CircletextMaxFontSizeMayBeSlightlyExceeded false def /CircletextMaxFontSizeProportionRadius 0.5 def /CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 33 def /CircletextsMaxCopies 2 def /NamesFontSizeMin 9 def /NamesFontSizeMax 9 def |
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24 Apr 1993 In Sussex: ’63s and ’70s Placemats file not found |
T63, G63, 2×T70, 2×G70, 2×N70, 2×GC70. |
For tastings in 1988, 1989, 1990, the vintages being ≥1955 and mostly ≤1977, various placemats were made using (memory slightly fails) either Illustrator or FreeHand. These were lost in a hard-disk crash during 1990: the lesson about backups was thoroughly learnt. After which there were no tastings until 1993, and then a longer no-tasting gap to 2001.
| Grace | Grace | Grace |
| A4 | www.jdawiseman.com/port/grace_a4.pdf | A Grace for a Port Tasting |
Te inuocamus, Liber Pater, ut nobis adsis qui id quod nunc bibemus dum profertur omnem ad gradum curauisti. te enim praesente uuae clarissimae leuissimis manibus carptae, te praesente pressae in uinum feruerunt. tu quoque adsis, o Siluane, qui durissimum corticem dedisti cuius puro in amplexu, tot per annos nullo calore, nullo frigore conturbatum dormiret. adeste igitur, di immortales, et concedite ut his uinis hodie ita ut uolebant auctores fruamur. Nunc est bibendum. |
Thee we invoke, Liber Pater: be present now, as you were at every step when what we are about to drink was made. For under your care the finest grapes were picked by gentle hands; under your care they were trodden and turned to wine. Be present too, Silvanus, for you gave of the long-lasting cork, in whose clean embrace the wine has slept for many years, disturbed by no excess of heat or cold. Come, Immortal Gods, and grant that we may enjoy these wines as their makers intended. Now is the time to drink! |
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