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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; 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.
In the tables below: “R.” = Review of the event as a whole; “P’s” = Parameters by which placemats made; “P&A” = Planning and Arrangements; and “F.” = Food order.
≥2020 | ≥2020 | ≥2020 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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23 Apr 2051 | www.jdawiseman.com/2051/20510423_2011s.pdf | P&A | 2011 Horizontal, planned very far in advance | For PostScript source in the link replace “.pdf” with “.ps”. (This note included in case I should become, ahem, permanently unavailable.) |
2018 | 2018 | 2018 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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02 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20181002_Cockburn.pdf | P&A | Cockburn Vertical | Ten years after ThePortForum’s first vertical, it is repeated. |
15 May | P&A | Royal Wedding: Port Fit For a Duchess | An echo of the “Port Fit For a Queen” theme of the E2>V tasting. | |
09 May | (Multiple links will appear here later.) | The Big Fortified Tasting: Masterclasses | ||
17 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180417_Magnus.pdf | P&A F. | Magnus: Cellar reduction and health check |
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10 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180410_1963s.pdf | R. P’s F. P&A | 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 SCD had withdrawn but was still on the placemats; DRT was on twice; and WG who replaced SCD wasn’t at all.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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180405_Mystery1922.pdf | P&A | Tom’s Mystery 1922 | The fonts /Didot and /Didot-Bold echoed the 1922 bottle.
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26 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180326_Protective_Potion.pdf | DRT’s Protective Potion | ||
14 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180314_LBV_SQVP_blind.pdf | R. P’s F. P&A | SQVP and mature LBV, blind |
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17 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180217_Noval_Leverkusen.pdf | R. P&A | Quinta do Noval in Leverkusen |
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15 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180215_Mr_Wolfgang_Starz.pdf | R. P’s F. P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180118_BarDouro.pdf | R. P&A | Port, Mostly 1982 |
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02 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2018/20180102_Ideally1878.pdf | R. P&A F. | 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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2017 | 2017 | 2017 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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21 Dec | No placemats | R. | Xmas Tasting (Unknown Shipper and Peculiar Friends) | |
20 Dec | No placemats | R. | Luncheon, Otto’s, 1927s | 1927 Cockburn, Constantino, Croft, Dow, Fonseca, Martinez, Taylor, and Warre. |
19 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171219_1977s.pdf | R. P&A F. | 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. |
30 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171130_Sandemans_1970s.pdf | P&A | Sandemans and 1970s (for the Placemat Software’s 15th anniversary) | Cancelled or Postponed (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. |
29 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171129_Calem.pdf | R. P&A F. | Cálem |
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02 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171102_1970s.pdf | R. P&A | 1970 Sighted, no duplicates |
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19 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171019_mature.pdf | R. P&A | Mature V.P. or L.B.V., blind, ideally in decanters |
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10 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20171010_Gould_Campbell.pdf | R. F. P&A | Gould Campbell, 1924 to 1997 |
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28 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170928_Bring.pdf | R. P&A | “Bring a container of port, or something a bit like port, to share with port-lovers” |
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07 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170907_SQVP_Blind.pdf | R. P&A | SQVP Blind | Two of the fonts were not the most splendid victory. /CircletextFont /Estelle def /NamesFont /DobkinScript def
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09 Aug | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170809_Blind.pdf | R. F. P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170801_Emergency.pdf | P&A | 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 |
13 July | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170713_Blind.pdf | P&A | La nuit avant le jour de Bastille |
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21 June | R. P&A | Portugal, including The Factory House | ||
08 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170608_1967s.pdf | R. P&A | 1967s |
![]() /ShapesInTitles true def /ShapesToUse [/Flower /Star /Heart] def /ShapesTitlesFill {1 setgray fill} def /ShapesTitlesStroke {0 setgray 0.18 setlinewidth stroke} def |
24 May | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170524_Blind_for_Somebody.pdf | R. P&A | Anything But Vintage IV, Blind, and Optionally for Somebody |
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10 May | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170510_help_required.pdf | R. P&A | Bring a bottle blind |
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26 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170426_DFW.pdf | Charity tasting at DFW in the Cheesegrater, arranged by AHB | ||
19 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170419_emergency.pdf | R. P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170406_1955s.pdf | R. P&A F. | 1955s |
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22 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170322_blind.pdf | R. P&A | Bring a Blind Bottle |
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09 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170309_Eighties_Rectangle.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | {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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170301_Introductory.pdf | An Introductory Port Tasting | ||
04 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170204_CUTwC.pdf | CUTwC’s 62nd Annual Dinner | ||
04 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170204_1977s_Leverkusen.pdf | P&A | 1977s in Leverkusen | Stars made as for tasting on 01 Feb 2017.
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01 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170201_1977_magnum_tappit_hen.pdf | R. P&A F. | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2017/20170104_Bring_a_Blind_Bottle.pdf | R. P&A | Bring a Blind Bottle | Maiden use of PaintBackgroundInsideGlassCircles.
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2016 | 2016 | 2016 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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15 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20161215_White_Horse.pdf | R. P&A | The Traditional Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends | /GlassesNumCopies 0 def |
14 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20161214_Ottos_luncheon.pdf | Luncheon at Otto’s | /GlassesNumCopies 0 def | |
13 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20161213_Noval.pdf | R. P&A F. | Quinta do Noval |
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23 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20161123_sighted.pdf | R. P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20161119_Calem_Leverkusen.pdf | P&A | Cálem vertical in Leverkusen |
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15 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20161115_Naval_Military.pdf | R. | Dinner with Johnny Symington at the Naval & Military Club | |
12 Oct | www.planetmeehan.com/dlfiles/161012/20161011_70or77v2.pdf | R. P&A | Seventy or Seventy-Seven | Placemats made by Mike Meehan. |
03 Oct | No placemats | R. P&A | DrDirk in London | Blind: Dow 1970; Graham 1980; Churchill 1985. |
20 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160920_Port_Steak.pdf | P’s P&A | Port and Steak |
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16 Aug | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160816_emergency.pdf | R. P&A | An Alex Emergency: Bring a blind bottle to share | /TitlesFont /Geo112ThinBold /def
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20 July | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160720.pdf | R. P&A | Anything But Vintage III |
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June | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160600_Knights_of_the_Round_Table.pdf | R. | Drinks on becoming a ‘Cavaleiro’ of the Confraria do Vinho do Porto | Font: /LucidaSansUnicode. |
15 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160615_Fonseca1963.pdf | R. P&A F. | 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 | www.planetmeehan.com/dlfiles/160519/160519_1966_Horizontal.pdf | R. P&A | 66@50 | Placemats made by Mike Meehan. |
30 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160430_Sercial_NY.pdf | “Sensational Sercial” | ||
21 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160421_Dow_Graham.pdf | R. P&A F. | 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 Apr 17 Apr |
www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160416_Maderia_RoyHersh.pdf | P&A | FTLOP Madeirathon | Maiden appearance of neck tags. |
04 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160404_DRT_1965.pdf | R. P&A F. | A Life or Death Emergency — bring a bottle of VP, blind or sighted |
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01 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160401_NYC.pdf | R. P&A | A small vertical of Graham, in New York | Maiden usage of CrossHatchingOutside.
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17 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160317_DotyCup.pdf | R. P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160226_Chicago_1985s.pdf | R. P&A P&A P&A | 1985 Horizontal at the Columbia Yacht Club in Chicago |
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24 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160224_vesuvio.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160215_blind_emergency.pdf | R. P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160213_Leverkusen_1966s.pdf | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160208_BKS.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160130_recent_delivery.pdf | R. | Home Drinking: testing a recent delivery (GM86, GM87, DB92, 2×WC92) | |
18 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160118_Drink_More_Port.pdf | The ‘We Must Drink More Port’ Tasting | Made by Ben Read. | |
04 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160104_emergency.pdf | R. P&A | Beer, then Young Port | Test inclusion of the new Accounts page type (discussion thereof).
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2015 | 2015 | 2015 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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17 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151217_WhiteHorse.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
15 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151215_1975s.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151128_Leverkusen_Fonseca.pdf | R. F48 F48 | Fonseca, in Leverkusen, arranged by WorldOfPort.de | Manual setting of FontSizesTitlesEquivalences, necessitating /FontSizesRatioTitlesMin 1 def. |
25 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151125_1985s.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | 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).
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24 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151124_GeorgeSandeman.pdf | R. | 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 |
27 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151027_emergency.pdf | R. P&A | A relatively long-notice ‘emergency’ |
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14 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20151014_pseudo-placemats.png | R. P&A | 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. |
21 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150921_emergency.pdf | R. P’s P&A | An Emergency |
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09 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150909_Elizabeth2_Victoria.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150814_The_Elliotts.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150727.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | Bring a bottle to share | TitlesFont = /Cardinal-Alternate; CircletextFont = /BeagleCondensedNormal.
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21 July | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150721_emergency.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | “[S]ome kind of emergency”, “Blind” | /Rays true def:
And with rays emphasised:
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07 July | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150707_quevedo.pdf | iVin @ Quevedo | ||
17 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150617_sweet-spot_vintages.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | The Sweet-Spot Vintages ({’66, ’70, ’77}×{D, G, T, W}), blind |
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03 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150603_doty.pdf | R. P&A | “Doty in London — Get it while it’s hot” |
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17 May | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150517_NewYork_blind.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150509_1945.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 1945 Horizontal at The RAF Club (WoP) | Review in The World of Fine Wine, issue 50, 2015.
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05 May | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150505_fonseca.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | Fonseca’s Bicentenary | Unusually, Titles, TitlesTastingNotes and TitlesVoteRecorder all different; and SubtitlesTastingNotes different from all of Abovetitles, Belowtitles, and Overtitles.
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15 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150415_claret.pdf | R. | Old Claret at Otto’s | |
10 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150410_doty_cup.pdf | P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150331_blind_informal.pdf | R. P&A F. | Blint och informellt farväl till Magnus (och Dereks fem från ’65) |
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26 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150326_blind_with_clue.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150302_shotton.pdf | R. P’s P&A F. | Henry Shotton in London |
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15 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150215_doty_lunch.pdf | R. P&A | Lunch with Chris Doty |
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09 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150209_seventies.pdf | R. P&A F. | Port from the 1970s |
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19 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150119_fonseca.pdf | R. P&A F. | Fonseca, incl. a bottle from an imperial |
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17 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2015/20150117_CUTwC.pdf | 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. |
2014 | 2014 | 2014 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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30 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20141230_bung_hole.pdf | R. P&A | Dr Dirk in London (blind ’60s and ’70s) | Font: /AccanthisADFStdNo3-Italic.
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25 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20141225.pdf | R. ‘A’ | Three tawnies, and two Warre LBVs | |
24 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20141224_tawnies.pdf | A Few Tawnies |
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22 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20141222_chez_cmag.pdf | R. P&A | Available and thirsty for 1970s | |
18 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20141218_bell.pdf | R. P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20141216_boot_flogger.pdf | R. P&A | Off The List at the Boot and Flogger | /SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes true def |
26 Nov | hallarn.com/placemats/141126_Martinez_placemats_141121a.pdf | R. P&A | 75 Years of Martinez | Made by Phil Wakely. |
20 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20141120_ttt.pdf | Doty’s Thirsty Third Thursdays, blind | ||
29 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20141029_croft.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Post-Refurbishment Bung Hole: Croft | Echoing the formatting of the placemats of 16th January 2012.
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21 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20141021_ramos_pinto.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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 |
www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140922_dinner.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140923_barbecue.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140924_lunch.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140924_dinner.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140925_lunch.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140925_dinner.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2014/201409_clubs.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2014/201409_diamonds.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2014/201409_hearts.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2014/201409_spades.pdf |
Portugal, Sept 2014 |
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18 Sep | www.danieljewesbury.org/assorted/scottish/Independencereferendum.pdf | P&A | The Scottish Independence Referendum, 18th Sept 2014 | Made by Daniel Jewesbury. |
18 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140918_TTT.pdf | R. | Thirsty Third Thursdays: ΦΣΚ | |
15 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140915_neals_yard.pdf | Port and Steak on the Barbie chez Christopher | CMAG brought Ni83; DRT brought F85; and I can’t recall what I brought. | |
28 Aug | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140827_one_bottler.pdf | R. P’s P&A | One Bottler (Hedges & Butler) | Wrong date: 28th August, not 27th August. This error is regretted.
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26 Aug | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140826_cellar_reduction.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/201408_house_decanter_labels.pdf | ‘A’ P’s | House Decanter Labels | Decanter labels only, by /Names [ ] def, which then causes the default value of TitleAboveBelowOverToFitInCircle to be false. |
16 July | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140717_thirsty_third_thursday.pdf | Doty’s TTT’s Mature Sauternes, blind | ||
16 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140616_1997s.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 1997 Maturity Evaluation |
Lots of complicated parameters, available in full from the P’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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140603_1958_OJMQ.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140514_quevedo.pdf | P’s | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140430_Crazy8s.pdf | R. P’s P&A | ‘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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140423_1960_1963.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140422_1966.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140405_star_party.pdf | P&A P’s | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140402_g80.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140321_doty_cup.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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.) |
26 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140226.pdf | R. P&A | Not Drinking TV64 |
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18 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140218_half_term.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Thirsty at Half Term |
Crosses (✠ ☩ ♰ ♱ ☨ ☦), in font /Menlo-Regular, glyphs /uni2720, /uni2629, /uni2670, /uni2671, /uni2628, /uni2626.
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01 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140201_cutwc_decanter_labels.pdf | Cr55 SV97 SV99 SV00 P’s | The 59th Annual Dinner of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club | Decanter labels only, by /Names [ ] def. |
27 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140127_Taylor1985.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Taylor 1985: a trial | /VerticalMiddlingTitles /MatchNone def looked more elegant with the single Greek letters.
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08 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140108_RMW.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2014/20140102_blind.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Bring a Bottle to Share, ∵ Dr. Dirk in London |
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2013 | 2013 | 2013 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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19 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131219_bell.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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. |
07 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131207_1955_GlennElliott.pdf | R. P&A | 1955 Horizontal for Pilsen Homeless Health Services | Made by Glenn Elliott. These appeared in the Huffington Post of 20 Dec 2013. |
28 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131128_post-bbr.pdf | R. P&A | ‘What?’, after the Berry Bros & Rudd Port Walk | |
27 Nov | danieljewesbury.org/… | R. P&A | 83@30 | Made by Daniel Jewesbury. The ZX Spectrum font was very ’80s. |
31 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131031_all_hallows_eve.pdf | R. P’s P&A | All Hallows’ Eve: Remember the Dead (Blinded and Decorated) | Fonts: /Firecat-Medium, /LucidaBlackletter, and /AmericanTypewriter-Light. |
11-12 Oct |
www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131011_1963_ahb.pdf | R. P’s | 1963s, for AHB’s Quinquagenary | At 433 pages for a tasting over three sessions and two locations, much use of the PageOrdering… parameters. |
www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131011_champagne_ahb.pdf | R. | Champagne, for the better halves | ||
08 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131008.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Andy Velebil in London | |
www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131008_calem.pdf | Unused, “Cálem and not Cálem” | |||
02 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131003.pdf | R. P&A P’s | Port | Oops: wrong date on the placemats. Wednesday 2nd, not 3rd. Anyway, another airing for the /Harrington font. |
25 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130925.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Bring A Bottle of Vintage Port (G70 magnum, GB70, T70, N66, W77, G??) | |
10 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130910.pdf | R. P’s P&A | “Bring a bottle wrapped in foil” | Usage of VoteRecorderCrossedBox and VerticalMiddlingTitles. |
10 Aug | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130810_ftlop_8th_GlennElliott.pdf | P&A | FTLoP 8th Anniversary | Made by Glenn Elliott. |
18 July | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130718_ttt_champagne.pdf | Doty’s TTT’s Champagne | ||
10 July | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130710_emergency.pdf | P&A | DRT’s Emergency, but cancelled and replaced with beer. | |
27 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130627_1966_doty.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
04 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130604_crs.pdf | R. P&A | Griff Returns Down Under | Maiden usage of RotationTitlesAboveBelowOverCirclearray. |
19 May | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130519_Madeirathon_GlennElliott.pdf | Madeirathon | Made by Glenn Elliott. | |
18 May | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130518_Madeirathon_GlennElliott.pdf | |||
16 May | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130516_ThirstyThirdThursday.pdf | Thirsty 3rd Thursday: The Riesling Lottery | /GilliusADFNo2-Bold and /GoudyOldStyleT-Regular look good. | |
24 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130424_lbv2007s.pdf | R. P&A | 2007 LBVs, after the BFT | |
23 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130423_dirty_dozen.pdf | R. P&A | The Dirty Dozen | |
20 Apr |
www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130420_1983a_GlennElliott.pdf www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130420_1983b_GlennElliott.pdf |
P&A | 1983 Vintage Port Retrospective | Made by Glenn Elliott. |
18 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130418_third_thursday.pdf | ThirstyThirdThursdays: The Price is Right | ||
17 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130417_oscar.pdf | P&A P’s | Oscar in London | |
02 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130402_1983_1985.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 1983-1985 Double Horizontal | A rare use of BackgroundTextsGlasses. |
22 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130322_taylor.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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.
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21 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130321_ThirstyThirdThursdays.pdf | 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.) | |
09 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130309_Verdelho_GlennElliott.pdf |
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Velhíssimo Verdelho | Made by Glenn Elliott. |
06 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130306.pdf | R. P&A | Blind at short notice | |
26 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130226_roots.pdf | R. P&A | Ronnie Roots visits London | |
21 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130221_doty_1970_blind.pdf | Partly-blind 1970 horizontal: Chris Doty’s ThirstyThirdThursdays.com | /TitlesFont /HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold def |
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20 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130220_streatham.pdf | R. | 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.) |
15 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130215_doty.pdf | R. P&A | “Doty’s Triumphant Return” | |
06 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130206_churchill_dow.pdf | R. P&A | Some Churchill and some halves of Dow Bomfim | /RaysLinesPerGlass 68 def /MaxRadius 130 def |
26 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130126_cutwc.pdf | TNs | CUTwC Dinner (T55, 2×SV99×3L) |
Decanter labels only, by /Names [ ] def. |
18 to 20 Jan |
www.jdawiseman.com/2013/201301_greeks.pdf | R. | 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. |
20 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130120_lunch.pdf | Light lunch | ||
19 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130119_van_zeller.pdf | A Working Dinner with Christiano Van Zeller | ||
19 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130119_sandeman.pdf | A Working Lunch with George Sandeman | ||
18 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130118_five_plus_five.pdf | With Five Symingtons | ||
17 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130117_dow_magnums.pdf | R. P&A | Dow magnums | |
03 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20130103.pdf | R. P&A | Blind (3×Ck55) | An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. |
2012 | 2012 | 2012 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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13 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20121213_bell.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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). |
05 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20121205_old_wood.pdf | R. P&A | Borges muito velho and friends | |
19 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20121119_hix_oyster_chop.pdf | R. P&A | The Hix Oyster & Chop House EC1M 6BN | The font, /PuritanSwash-Bold, was not such a good idea. |
13 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20121113_graham.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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. |
23 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20121023_1963.pdf | R. P&A | A Trio of 1963s | |
20 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20121020_los_angeles.pdf | Blind in Los Angeles, 1 to 15 | ||
15 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20121015_Delaforce1958.pdf | R. P&A | The Bung Hole, Delaforce 1958 and friends | Flowers in /Calibri-Bold; and the first use of TastingNotesCirclesBehind. |
09 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20121009_blind.pdf | R. | Blind, 1 to 6, in Portal Restaurant EC1M 4EH | |
24 Sep | www.hallarn.com/placemats/120924_WarreFonseca.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Warre versus Fonseca | Placemats made by Phil Wakely, who included shipper-logo EPS elements. |
18 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120918_sandeman_vau.pdf | R. P&A | Mostly Sandeman Vau | |
04 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120904.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Blind and Mis-Guessed | |
25 July | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120725_olympic.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120710_blind_emergency.pdf | R. P&A | A Blind Emergency | |
15 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120615_evening.pdf | R. | Dinner with Miguel | |
14 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120614_niepoort_1912.pdf | R. | Some 1912s | |
13 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120613_yeatman.pdf | R. | Dinner at The Yeatman | |
13 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120613_ferreira_1955.pdf | R. | 1955s at the Sandeman Lodge (originally to be at the Ferreira Lodge). | |
12 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120612_bomfim_graham.pdf | R. | Graham at Bomfim |
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11 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120611_bomfim_fonseca.pdf | R. | Fonseca at Bomfim |
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06 June | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120606_anait.pdf | R. P&A | Farewell to our favourite waitress at the Bunghole | |
24 May | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120524.pdf | P&A | JDAW drinking Croft 2005 LBV near the Bunghole | |
15 May | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120515_1970.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Horizontal of 1970 honouring Ronnie Roots | Rays and RaysLinesToPaperEdge. |
02 May | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120502.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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. |
24 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120424_delaforce.pdf | R. P’s P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120417_1966.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Six × 1966 | |
11 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120411_blind.pdf | R. P’s P&A | A Small Blind Emergency | |
31 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120331_Top12_GlennElliott.pdf | P&A | Roy’s Top 12 Tasting | Made by Glenn Elliott. |
29 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120329_birthday.pdf | R. P’s P&A | The Birthday Boys, ruby then vintage | Striking variation in formatting within the placemats. |
23 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120323_ruby_GlennElliott.pdf | P&A | “The Reserve Ruby Taste Off” | Made by Glenn Elliott. |
22 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120322.pdf | R. P’s P&A | JDAW’s oddments, being some unimpressive ports purchased in Paris | |
12 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120312_cynthia.pdf | R. P’s P&A | Cynthia and Seven Blind Men | |
10 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120310_Terrantez_GlennElliott.pdf | R. | “The Transcendental Terrantez Tasting” | Made by Glenn Elliott. |
02 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120302_1980.pdf | R. P&A | 1980s in Leverkusen | Rotate180AlternateNames; and font = /TrebuchetMS-Bold. |
29 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120229_leap_year.pdf | R. P&A | The Annual 29th February Leaping (2012) | |
22 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120222_jubilee.pdf | R. P&A | Jubilee (though some of the ‘Jubilee’ connections were tenuous) | |
14 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120214_el_vino.pdf | R. P&A | Valentine’s Day at El Vino’s | An example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. |
08 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120208_blind.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
31 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120131.pdf | R. P&A | A toast to Ko-ichi’s Retirement | Perhaps both OutlineTitles and Rays was too psychedelic?
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16 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120116_croft.pdf | R. P&A | Croft in The Bunghole | Rotate180AlternateNames.
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10 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120110.pdf | R. P&A | The Bunghole: a splendid trial | |
03 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/2012/20120103_1977.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
2011 | 2011 | 2011 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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20 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20111220.pdf | R. P&A | Vintage Port at The Crusting Pipe (W70, F70, T70, D83, GC85) | |
15 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20111215_bell.pdf | R. P&A | The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends, at The Bell | |
30 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20111130.pdf | R. P&A | Dead Cow & Vintage Port (Ck67, Mz67, Ck75, T77, W77, Mz85) | |
17 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20111117_gc_sw_qh.pdf | R. P&A | 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). |
16 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20111116.pdf | R. P&A | SushiNorth at TCP with QH77 + Ch85 | |
08 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20111108_star_quality.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
27 Oct | By request, no placemats | R. P&A | London with StevieCage & RonnieRoots | |
11 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20111011.pdf | R. P&A | {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. |
22 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110922_quevedo.pdf | Made for a shipper | ||
19 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110919_ragbag.pdf | R. P&A | A Ragbag of Good Port, at the Steak Exchange | /CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute 5 def, an unusually small value. |
01 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110901_san_francisco.pdf | R. | G-man in San Francisco | First placemats in which the PDF has a Table of Contents, entailing the maiden usage of ExternalLinks. |
19 Aug | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110819.pdf | R. | Emergency Drinking at The Crusting Pipe | |
08 Aug | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110808_paris.pdf | R. P&A | DB98 + TTF86 in Paris | |
www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110808_1990s.pdf | Port from the Nineteen Nineties, at The Steak Exchange | Non-constant RaysLinesPerGlass. | ||
19 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110719.pdf | With Richard Mayson | Maiden inclusion of decanting-notes pages. | |
07 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110707_non-vintage.pdf | R. P&A | Anything But Vintage II (the Warm-up), at The Crusting Pipe | |
28 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110628_three_men.pdf | R. | 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.” |
23 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/rayc/20110623_rayc.pdf | R. P&A | The Quest for Phil W’s new house port | Placemats made by RAYC. |
09 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110609.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
13 May | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110513_sandeman.pdf | R. P&A | Sandeman Vertical | The font /Didot-Bold worked well, especially for the two-digit years.
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06 May | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110506.pdf | R. P&A | London welcomes g-man, blind | |
23 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110423_saint_george.pdf | R. P&A | The Port Society launches on St George’s Day | The /Lautenbach-Normal font was an error. It’s horrible. |
16 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110416.pdf | Made for a Danish tasting that might not have happened. | ||
04 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110404_fonseca.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
03 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110403.pdf | R. P&A | Pre-FG warm-up session | Small variation of formatting by name. |
15 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110315.pdf | R. | Blind at El Vino’s | |
10 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110310.pdf | R. P&A | Port Worth Sharing, blind at The Crusting Pipe | |
24 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110224_colheita.pdf | R. | ||
22 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110222.pdf | R. P&A | Half Bottles | |
06 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110206.pdf | R. P&A | Emergency Tasting at The Crusting Pipe (Df66, Cr66, TV67, SW83) | |
29 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110129_cutwc.pdf | Tasting-note sheets for use at the CUTwC Dinner | The only use so far, ≤2012, of /OutlineTitlesSuppressForDecanterLabels false def. | |
26 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20110126_lbv.pdf | R. P&A | LBV Old and New, Part 2 |
2010 | 2010 | 2010 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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29 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20101229_blind.pdf | |||
25 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20101225.pdf | |||
19 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20101219_emergency.pdf | R. | Emergency in Wokingham & Paris | |
16 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20101216.pdf | R. P&A | The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends at The Bell | |
10 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20101210_leverkusen_1955.pdf | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20101207.pdf | |||
02 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20101202_gbp15.pdf | Two Ports, total cost ≤£30 (perhaps cancelled?) | ||
12 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20101112_niepoort.pdf | R. | Niepoort vertical in Leverkusen, Köln |
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12 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20101012_1955.pdf | R. P&A | 55s at 55 | My enthusiasm for the OutlineTitles has greatly diminished. YMMV. |
28 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100928_crasto.pdf | |||
27 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100927_noval.pdf | |||
07 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100907_dow.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/201009_blanks.pdf | |||
26 Aug | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100826.pdf | R. P&A | Blind at TCP (Df85, W70, QH77, Cá85, Ck75, S82) | |
13 Aug | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100813_quevedo.pdf | |||
05 Aug | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100805_abv1.pdf | R. P&A | Anything But Vintage (I) | |
15 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100715_1970_GlennElliott.pdf | R. P&A | Blind Tasting of 1970 Vintage Port | Made by Glenn Elliott. |
09 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100709_fonseca.pdf | R. P&A | The F-Plan II, in Utrecht | |
21 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100621_1982.pdf | R. P&A | 1982 Horizontal at The Crusting Pipe. | Maiden inclusion of vote-recorder pages. And /TitlesFont /BasqueThinNormal def. |
19 May | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100519_1960.pdf | R. P&A | 1960 Horizontal at The Bowler |
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14 May | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100514.pdf | R. P&A | 1978 Horizontal at The RAF Club | |
06 May | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100506_hove.pdf | R. P&A | BMHR at an election party in Hove | |
www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100506_blind.pdf | UK General Election | |||
30 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100430_BritsOnTour_GlennElliott.pdf | P&A | Two Brits on Tour | Made by Glenn Elliott. |
19 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100419.pdf | R. P&A | Blind at TCP | |
17 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100417_warre.pdf | R. | Warre II (1945 to 1985), in Sussex | Excessively coloured rays, the RaysStrokeCode being at www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat-code.html. |
16 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100416.pdf | R. | Pre-Warre Exercises | Elegant use of /InlineTitlesMaxNumberContours 2 def (subsequently becoming the default). |
10 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100410_whisky.pdf | 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 | |
22 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100322_malvedos.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
22 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100322_graham.pdf | R. P&A | The Graham’s Vertical (G80 and G85) | |
17 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100317.pdf | R. P&A | Emergency, ¾ flawed | |
16 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100316_1970.pdf | T70 KL70 | 1970: A Near-Minimal Horizontal | |
09 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100309.pdf | R. P&A | Bring A Bottle to TCP | |
23 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100223_vesuvio.pdf | R. P&A | Vesuvio Vertical, 1989 to 2008 | Page-ordering parameters used to split into two flights |
11 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100211_oscar_blind.pdf | R. P&A | Oscar Quevedo in London | Very complicated Circlearrays. |
01 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100201.pdf | R. P&A | As below, 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. |
www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100201_without_bmhr.pdf | Bring a Bottle to the Library | |||
30 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100130_cutwc.pdf | Decanter labels for the CUTwC Dinner | ||
05 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100105.pdf | R. P&A | Four at TCP (O70, Cr70, W77, N85) | Aggressively kerned. |
2009 | 2009 | 2009 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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17 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20091217.pdf | R. P&A | The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends, at The Bell | |
13 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20091113_share.pdf | R. P&A | Port To Share (Ck60, D63, D80, Fr63, F70, GC70, G63, G70, Mz60, Mg63) | |
www.jdawiseman.com/port/20091113_1966_1967.pdf | 1966 versus 1967 | |||
28 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20091028.pdf | R. | Portal Restaurant (Pç77, T77, Mg77, T63, D83) | |
23 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20091023.pdf | R. P&A | Au Relais des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris 19ème (KL70, Ch85, T85, Qv07) | |
14 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20091014.pdf | R. | Fonseca Emergency | |
02 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20091002_warre.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
15 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090915_acetate_example.pdf | Demonstration page | As of August 2016, the parameter later renamed to MirrorPagesGlasses has not been used. | |
12 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090912b.pdf | R. | DRT in Paris: Saturday | |
www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090912.pdf | Maiden inclusion of place-name pages. | |||
11 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090911_paris.pdf | DRT in Paris: Friday evening | ||
08 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090908_1994.pdf | R. P&A | A Small 1994 Horizontal | |
30 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090730_ftlop_4th_GlennElliott.pdf | P&A | FTLoP 4th Anniversary | Made by Glenn Elliott. |
21 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090721_eighties.pdf | R. P&A | Eighties Night at TCP | /OutlineTitles {ThisName Titles WithinTitles get eq} def |
07 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090707.pdf | R. P&A | Farewell to New York | |
29 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090629_noval.pdf | The Best Mature Ports to Drink Today, at Quinta do Noval | The parameter since renamed to CircletextMaxFontSizeAbsolute was deffed to 9. | |
27 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090627_luiz.pdf | Lunch at Quinta S. Luiz | ||
26 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090626_seixo.pdf | Sandeman Lunch at Quinta do Seixo | ||
26 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090626_passadouro.pdf | Decent Drinking Port at Quinta do Passadouro | ||
13 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090613_fonseca.pdf | F66 F70 F85 | Fonseca Minivertical (for JDAW, MAW, AMK) |
A rare example of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. |
11 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090611_blind.pdf | R. P&A | 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. |
Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/port/200906_non-roman.pdf | Spares for Portugal | /alpha /beta /gamma …; /alef /bet /gimel …; /acyrillic /becyrillic /vecyrillic …. |
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28 May | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090528_1977_jes.pdf | R. P&A | 1977 Mini-Horizontal (Cr, W, Df, Guedes, SW, Fr) | Placemats made by JES. |
15 May | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090515.pdf | R. | Some Port for JB’s Class | |
18 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090418_tfw.pdf | Classic years of Taylor, Fonseca, Warre | ||
20 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090320_emergency.pdf | R. P&A | Emergency Port (GC80, GC97, Rr95, Rr99) | |
13 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090213_graham.pdf | R. P&A | A Vertical of Graham’s in Brooklyn | |
01 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090201_Gala_Port_GlennElliott.pdf | P&A P&A | FTLoP Gala: Port, ≤1970 | Made by Glenn Elliott. |
31 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090131_Gala_1977_1985_GlennElliott.pdf | FTLoP Gala: 1977 versus 1985 | ||
31 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090131_Gala_1994_GlennElliott.pdf | FTLoP Gala: 1994s | ||
30 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090130_Gala_Madeira_GlennElliott.pdf | FTLoP Gala: Madeira | ||
30 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090130_Gala_Colheita_GlennElliott.pdf | FTLoP Gala: Colheitas | ||
30 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090130_setup.pdf | R. P&A | Instructions for the 1970 | Assembled in Illustrator. |
www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090130_1970.pdf | 1970 Horizontal at the RAF Club | The spelling error is regretted. Also, the maiden outing of InlineTitles. |
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15 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090115.pdf | R. P&A | The Crusting Pipe: W70, TV67, MG85, F63, and a South African | The font, /SnowtopCaps, is ghastly. |
04 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090104.pdf | R. P&A | Emergency Port, Round 2 | |
03 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20090103.pdf | Emergency Port |
2008 | 2008 | 2008 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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26 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20081226.pdf | R. P&A | Some Fonseca | Both fonts, /ScottsdaleNormal and /BernieBoldItalic, were horrible. |
18 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20081218.pdf | R. P&A | The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends, at The Bell | |
20 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20081120.pdf | R. P&A | Old and Blind, at Portal | |
14 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20081114_danish.pdf | |||
07 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20081107_old_odd.pdf | R. P&A | Old & Odd in New York | |
18 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20081018_madeira.pdf | TNs | A wonderful tasting of old Madeira, at Triomphe, 49 West 44th St, New York |
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17 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20081017_ferreira.pdf | R. P&A | Ferreira in New York | Six glasses on A4, /GaiaElegant (later renamed /PostsAndLintel). |
09 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20081009_bell.pdf | |||
08 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20081008_cockburn.pdf | R. P&A | The Cockburn Vertical, 1908 to 2007 | Good font choices, /GillSans with /Palatino-BoldItalic.
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13 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080913.pdf | R. P&A | ’83 and ’85 Double Horizontal in Brooklyn | Bad design — too much clutter. |
18 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080718_1997.pdf | SV EV O | AJRH visits JDAW for a 1997 mini-horizontal | An early version, imperfectly successful, of SideBySideGlassesTastingNotes. |
11 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080711_made_by_drt.pdf | R. P&A | Old, Odd & Great, in Portal Restaurant | A garish production of DRT. And 10.3 megabytes. |
02 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080702_1977.pdf | R. P&A | Believed not to have been used | |
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080702_1977_blind.pdf | Utrecht, Blind 1977s | |||
25 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080625_cricket.pdf | R. P&A | After Cricket at The Crusting Pipe: ports costing ≤£15 | |
20 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_jdaw.pdf | R. P&A | First Anniversary: La Sirène, 558½ Broome Street, NY 10013-1508 | |
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_roots.pdf | R. P&A | First Anniversary: The Roots’ Martinez 1994 and Cockburn’s Ruby | ||
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_drt.pdf | First Anniversary: DRT’s Vesuvio 1994 | Picture added using Illustrator. | ||
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_bmhr.pdf | First Anniversary: BMHR’s Taylor 2001 LBV | |||
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080620_ahb.pdf | First Anniversary: AHB’s Martinez 1985 | |||
20 May | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080520_wokingham.pdf | R. P&A | Sighted 1980, unused | |
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080520_wokingham_blind.pdf | Blind 1980 Horizontal in Wokingham | |||
08 May | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080508_oo.pdf | |||
08 May | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080508_lbv.pdf | |||
10 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080410_blind.pdf | R. P&A | Blind at The Crusting Pipe (G83, TV95, BBR83=W83, Mz55, W91) | File naming changed from using hyphens (“-”) to using underscores (“_”). |
03 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080403-madeira.pdf | P&A | 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. |
29 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080329_1977.pdf | R. P&A | 1977 Horizontal at Dovetail | Ca → MsC. |
14 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080214-1970.pdf | R. P&A | 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 | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080209-croft.pdf | R. R. P&A | Croft Vertical in Boston, 1896 to 1970 | |
02 Feb | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080202.pdf | R. | 1963s in Sussex, and a decanting experiment | |
28 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080128-holding-bay.pdf | R. P&A | The ‘Deeper Underground’ 1966 Horizontal at The Crusting Pipe | This kludge later handled in the code as pre-pour sheets. |
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080128-1966.pdf | ||||
19 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080119-1985.pdf | R. | The ‘Up North’ 1985 Horizontal (D, Mz, F, N, MG, Cr) | |
03 Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20080103-colheitathon.pdf | R. P&A | Colheitathon in Manhattan | |
Jan | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/200801-drt-1970.pdf | R. | DRT’s 1970 “One-Man-Marathon-Horizontal-Off-line” |
2007 | 2007 | 2007 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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26 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071226-emergency.pdf | R. P&A | The ‘Emergency’ 1985 Horizontal (D, I, RP, G, W, T, A) | The /Harrington font still looks good. |
11 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071211-citron.pdf | R. P&A | Vesuvios and 1994s in Bistro Citron | |
08 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071208-grahams.pdf | → | 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. |
06 Dec | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071206-semi-blind.pdf | R. | Taylor versus Fonseca: 1963, ’70, ’77, ’83, ’85, ’92, ’94. |
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. | |||
12 Nov | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071112-ahb-asia.pdf | |||
31 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071031-alexbandyv.pdf | R. P&A | Alex B. in Los Angeles (W63, TV67, S77, G75, SW80, etc) | Maiden appearance of water boxes (having been requested during the tasting at Bistro Citron on 29th October 2007). |
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071031-alexbandyv-mystery.pdf | ||||
30 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071030-derekt.pdf | |||
29 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071029-citron.pdf | R. P&A | Alex B. at Bistro Citron (K85, W85, W77, S77, RV77, G85) | Maiden appearance of HeaderLeftText etc (later renamed to HeadersLeft etc). |
12 Oct | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20071012-larsf.pdf | P&A | ||
01 Sep | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070901-t-shirt.pdf | R. P&A | T-Shirt version of the following | |
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070901-conky.pdf | Fonseca Vertical, 1920 to 2000, in St. Helens | |||
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070901-conky-colour.pdf | Silly colour version of the above | The psychedelic feature was removed from the code in September 2009. | ||
18 Jul | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070718-crustingpipe-a3.pdf | R. P&A | “The Port Forum Offline #1” | |
09 Jun | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070609-derek-t.pdf | R. | Derek T. in St Helens (D77, QH77, SW77, W80, W95LBV) | Oops: “C” should have been “Cá”. |
30 May | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070530-derek-t.pdf | Maiden usage of OutlineTitles. Perhaps this tasting was postponed until 9 June 2007? |
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04 Apr | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070404-Axel1970-plain.pdf | |||
www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070404-Axel1970-flamboyant.pdf | ||||
31 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070331-DerekTurnbull.pdf | R. R. | “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. |
17 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070317-1985.pdf | R. | 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. |
16 Mar | www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070316-cockburn.pdf | R. R. | 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. |
2003-2006 | 2003-2006 | 2003-2006 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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11 Jul 2006 | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20060711_nacional.pdf | R. | Nacional 1962, 1980, 1985 | The code that made this was 907 lines. For comparison, the version of 5th August 2016 takes 1,910 lines just to choose the positions of the circles, and in total is ≈ 14.2× longer at 13,081 lines, partly because it has twelve page types: /Glasses, /TastingNotes, /PlaceName, /PrePour, /VoteRecorder, /DecantingNotes, /Accounts, /CorkDisplay, /NeckTags, /DecanterLabels, /StickyLabels, /DistillerLog. |
05 Nov 2005 | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20051105_taylor_warre.pdf | R. | 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. |
09 Apr 2005 | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20050409_pre-wedding.pdf | R. | A boys’ evening before a wedding (D63, F63, N45, N60, N63, N66, NN66, N70, N75, N85) | |
21 Oct 2004 | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20041021_F77F85C85.pdf | In Manhattan: three bottles | ||
03 Apr 2004 | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20040403_noval.pdf | R. | In Fulham: N31, N45, N55 (single and magnum), N63, NN70, N70, S70, N85, N00 | |
20 Mar 2004 | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20040320_wimbledon.pdf | R. | In Wimbledon: three bottles | The page was guillotined down the middle. |
31 Jan 2004 | Placemats file not found |
R. | In Fulham: N60, F60, Cr60, Cr63, N63, F66, Cr66, Cr85, N85, N97 LBV, M&S97 LBV | |
22 Nov 2003 | Placemats file not found |
R. | In Fulham: W55, W63, W66, BBR66, W70, W77 single and magnum, G77, WC88, W00 |
≤2002 | ≤2002 | ≤2002 |
Tasting Date | Placemat Link | ![]() | Tasting Description | Notes |
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30 Nov 2002 | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20021130_Sandeman_1970s.pdf | R. | 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. |
12 Oct 2002 | R. | Chez RKA: excellent bottles | Before the software: made using Adobe Illustrator, with the two pages in separate files. | |
13 Apr 2002 | www.jdawiseman.com/port/20020413_D_G_T_80_83_85.pdf | R. | 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. |
12 May 2001 | R. | In Sussex: Taylor, Noval, Graham. | 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 | Placemats file not found |
R. | In Sussex: ’63s and ’70s | 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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8½″×11″ | www.jdawiseman.com/port/grace_usl.pdf |
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