For The Love Of Port

Roy, when I asked a few years ago whether anyone had ever tasted this and came up blank, you asked me to post when I drank it so here we are... I brought this to the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Foundation's fundraising fine wine auction to share with our table. Decanted off sediment at 5:30 PM;...

Tom, thanks for he decanting suggestion; it confirms some belief/experience of my own with old Porto from lesser years. As to the when it's a one-off as it's a solo bottle...all the other Porto given me from my deceased friend's cellar is 1977 vintage; such a shame, that! At any rate, when it's been...

Well, the fill is still so high in the neck that it could pass for less than 10 years old, the cellar where it rested since purchase in England in 1972 was exceptional, so if it has any possibilities, it was given every chance. I'll pop it soon with some other friends of the of the giver, in his mem...

Recently I was given several bottles of Porto, mostly 77's, from the impeccable cellar of a very good friend. Among them however was one bottle that I have never seen before, although I have had bottles of this wine from other undeclared years. The bottle in question is a Fonseca Guimaraens 1968. I ...

Otto, I wish that I could remember the names of the individual items...what I can tell you is that it was the assortment sold under the "Shatila" brand, originally (and still, AFAIK) produced at the refugee camp, but now also produced under license in the Arab community in Detroit, Michiga...

From a 375 ml, accompanying middle-eastern pastries, after a long, leisurely middle-eastern dinner during which we also consumed 85 Bollinger, 86 and 94 Henschke Hill of Grace, 77 Mount Eden Cabernet and 64 Lafite. Beautiful pale tawny color, verging on rose-gold; Slight heat on the nose which dissi...