For The Love Of Port

There were multiple bottlings of the original Carnation bottle. Those were interspersed with non-Carnation bottlings of the same 1974 Colheita. Now that they have the new Carnation paper label, they've stopped selling the non-Carnation bottlings but still bottle and use them for tastings. (We had a ...

1955 Kopke Colheita 375ml, bottled 2015 Another bottle from the recently rediscovered case of halves. This one is also in great shape, so I'm thinking that the time in bottle hasn't hurt this mixed case. Note that these have also only been stored at room temperature for ~10 years, not in a cellar. T...

A bottle of Justino’s Tinta Negra 1999 Colheita, bottled June 2024. It’s OK, but as hard as I try, I can’t love Tinta Negra. Is this labeled as a Colheita? Seems like they'd have bottled it as a Frasqueira since it has been in wood long enough. Although if it was bottled in June of 2024, it hasn't ...

That looks like a great haul, indeed. I do love DR and Brunheda. Just a quick question: on my first PHT2 in 2021 we also visited Brunheda, where I a.o. bought two bottles of their very old tawny Cask 51. It is clearly a T :lol:, but where would you place it age wise? According to my notes from that...

LOL... 49-50.

Not Taylor Fladgate. (Those are both old Krohn stocks.) But they're owned by Taylor now, so this can be forgiven.

But also... not Vintage Port.

I expect better from Acker.

Yeah, time to crack those babies for sure. Can’t believe you still have them from back then. I "lost" the box or I'm sure I'd have drunk them long ago! The 20YO White is still in fine shape, so I'm optimistic about the others as well. Plus they're all Kopke, and I've found that Kopke can ...

The various search engine bots can get stuck at times, and that can cause very large numbers like that.

Or it could have been some kind of rudimentary DOS attack. I have no clue why anyone would target a forum like FTLOP, but we do occasionally get hit by hackers.

That looks like a great haul, indeed. I do love DR and Brunheda. Just a quick question: on my first PHT2 in 2021 we also visited Brunheda, where I a.o. bought two bottles of their very old tawny Cask 51. It is clearly a T :lol:, but where would you place it age wise? According to my notes from that...

I’m disappointed there’s no 1935 White or Tawny from Kopke on your list. And, personally, although the 1937 gets all the headlines, I think the 1941 is a better glass of wine. I love both 1935s and the 1934, but had to draw a line somewhere. The 1937 is a classic and I basically always want to have...

Eric Ifune wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 11:48 pm Wow. Older than the DR Muitos Muitos Velhos?

Yes, assuming the one you're talking about is the 1885. It's not a lot older - probably from 1875 or so - but it is definitely older than the one we've purchased in the past. There's also a lot less of it left, and it's a lot more expensive.

Stefano's birthday somehow reminded me that I had a box of Kopke halves in my Port room. It was buried and had been for years, but this reminder prompted me to go dig it out since the bottles are getting old. They all date back to when Stefano worked for Kopke's importer in Seattle. I opened the 20 ...

That is a VERY nice haul. Did you taste the 3 Brunheda's on your just completed tour? How were they? And what are the ages of the VVO White and the T6a? Yep, tasted all of these and a couple more that were above my pay grade. :lol: As with many things at Brunheda, the exact ages mostly aren't known...

Pretty good haul from my recently completed trip to Portugal: 1937 Kopke Colheita 1941 Kopke Colheita 1964 Kopke Colheita 1965 Kopke Colheita 2004 Kopke Colheita Branco (x4) 1906 Brunheda Colheita Brunheda Very Very Old White Port Brunheda T6a Tawny Port (x2) DR 50 Year Old White Port (x2) DR 50 Yea...

Roy Hersh wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 6:27 pm 1851 Malvasia Candida from Faja dos Padres

I thought of another factor for me - uniqueness. Some of the places we visit in the Douro give us the opportunity to taste - and sometimes purchase - Ports that we will literally never see again, let alone have the opportunity to buy again. So those end up jumping the queue, so to speak, as very lit...

1 x 1975 Kopke Colheita (bottled 2024) for my annual tasting I'm doing with my college buddies in August. The first night will be different types of white Ports and the second night will be a mixture of VP, SQVP and Tawnies all beginning or ending in a "5" (which is a nod to 2025). Ah yes...

S. Leonardo 10 Year Old Tawny Port, bottled 2019 An earlier bottling was what put Quinta do Mourao over the top to win the Mourao vs DR head-to-head that we did in 2018 or 2019. DR won at 30 and 40, Mourao won at 20, but the deciding factor was that Mourao won overwhelmingly at 10. But that was a wh...

Borges, H&H, and RWC would be my recommendations.

Interesting to hear that you feel like the RWC blends aren't as good as earlier bottlings. I'll have to get another New York Malmsey to see if I can tell the difference.

This is a poll for FTLOPers to select the primary factor why they choose a Port in their purchasing decision. I'd have to say that for me, the primary factor for me to buy is "because it is delicious". Others come into account, but that is definitely primary. Same for me. I'm really only ...

Roy Hersh wrote: ↑Fri May 02, 2025 7:48 am It was similar to when Alex/Uncle Tom et al in the UK purchased their slew of 1991 VP, momentarily forgetting the name, but it was quite good although I only had it once while in Cambridgeshire.

IIRC that 1991 Port was Morgan. They sure did have a lot of it in London!