Looks like it. The presentation is better though. It is not yet fully completed but they must have invested a lot of money to restore this building the way it is.
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- Sat May 04, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Breaking News!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 209
Re: Breaking News!
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Breaking News!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 209
Re: Breaking News!
Finally!!!!
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:11 am
- Forum: Portuguese Table Wine and Tasting Notes
- Topic: What Portuguese wines have you opened this week
- Replies: 597
- Views: 156234
Re: What Portuguese wines have you opened this week
NIepoort Charme 2021: 2021 was a great year for table wines in the Douro. This one comes with low saturation ruby/garnet color. The nose is complex and intense. Notes of red fruits, truffle and spices. On the palate the same aromatic intensity is present, the finish is extremely long too. But, it d...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:40 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
- Replies: 5780
- Views: 1123789
Re: What have you opened this week?
Checking on a 2011 Ramos Pinto Vintage . Like many 2011, this is aging really slowly. Still quite tannic and on its primary fruit flavours. I'll need to be more patient :) I think 2011 is going to go down as one of the best vintages for Port in a very long time. There was also a lot of hype about 2...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:42 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
- Replies: 5780
- Views: 1123789
Re: What have you opened this week?
Checking on a 2011 Ramos Pinto Vintage. Like many 2011, this is aging really slowly. Still quite tannic and on its primary fruit flavours. I'll need to be more patient :)
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:41 am
- Forum: Portuguese Table Wine and Tasting Notes
- Topic: What Portuguese wines have you opened this week
- Replies: 597
- Views: 156234
Re: What Portuguese wines have you opened this week
Niepoort Vertente 2018 2018 has always missed a touch of acidity for me, notheless, it is drinking smoothly, still full of fruits and touch of spices. Always a great QPR wine from the Douro in in this fresh style.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:54 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Taylor buying Quinta do Portal
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1456
Re: Taylor buying Quinta do Portal
Taylor's just keep on making acquisitions!
I don't remember if it was reported here, but also earlier this year they acquired the distributing and wine education company Direct Wines in Porto.
I don't remember if it was reported here, but also earlier this year they acquired the distributing and wine education company Direct Wines in Porto.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: Portuguese Table Wine and Tasting Notes
- Topic: Iron Maiden making a Portuguese Wine
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1364
Re: Iron Maiden making a Portuguese Wine
Someone else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD3VMAm-9iA I'm told with proper training, you don't sacrifice your voice. I'm really impressed on how Youtube is able to generate subtitles from such "music" or noise ahaha. In the same vein as Maiden, there are a lot of alternatives in Europ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Antonio Aguilar Tonico
- Replies: 9
- Views: 769
Re: Antonio Aguilar Tonico
Google translate says “Invalido” is Italian. So possibly made for that market. Based on the name and tonic I’d lean toward it being something with tonic and quinine in it. I’d guess it is rather old. There were many producers releasing an "invalid" Port(Niepoort, Sandeman, Feist, Offley, ...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1985 Quinta do Crasto Vintage Port
- Replies: 5
- Views: 689
Re: 1985 Quinta do Crasto Vintage Port
Here is what Bartholomew had to say : There are some bottles of Quinta do Crasto from the 1800 but those were probably limited bottlings for the family. I became the importer of Quinta do Crasto in 1996 but we were selling wines from the 1985 vintage. At the time, Cristiano Van Zeller was managing t...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1985 Quinta do Crasto Vintage Port
- Replies: 5
- Views: 689
Re: 1985 Quinta do Crasto Vintage Port
Interesting! I thought that the Crasto brand only started in the 90's...Do you know the story behind this? The back label says they were imported by Broadbent Imports (which is no longer their importer). A friend found them in 2009 in Las Vegas for $33.00/each. Other than that, I don’t know the sto...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:55 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Port in a Coffee Mug
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1736
Re: Port in a Coffee Mug
Don’t forget it was only Vintage Port which had to be bottled in Portugal before being exported. Other types of Port could be bottled outside Portugal until the 1990s - I have 1993 in mind, but that’s just my memory talking. I don't remember the dates exactly either, I used to, now I'm getting old ...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:31 am
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1985 Quinta do Crasto Vintage Port
- Replies: 5
- Views: 689
Re: 1985 Quinta do Crasto Vintage Port
Interesting! I thought that the Crasto brand only started in the 90's...Do you know the story behind this?
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:26 am
- Forum: Portuguese Table Wine and Tasting Notes
- Topic: TN: 2016 Niepoort Poeirinho Bairrada
- Replies: 5
- Views: 680
Re: TN: 2016 Niepoort Poeirinho Bairrada
The 2012? It was the first year. I think they can be drunk now but they will last for quite a few years! I still have a couple as well.Eric Ifune wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:16 pm Also a big fan. I sitting a bunch of the 2011 Garrafeiria. I think they'll need a lot of time
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 4:43 am
- Forum: Portuguese Table Wine and Tasting Notes
- Topic: TN: 2016 Niepoort Poeirinho Bairrada
- Replies: 5
- Views: 680
Re: TN: 2016 Niepoort Poeirinho Bairrada
I'm a big fan of this. The Bairrada wines can age so slowly with their acidity and thight but fine tannins. I had the 2012 recently and it still can age.
Let's see!
Let's see!
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:02 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Decant advice for 2 Ports
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1845
Re: Decant advice for 2 Ports
I'd say you can decant 1-2 hours before service. I had Vargellas pop and pour recently and it was already very good!
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:42 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
- Replies: 5780
- Views: 1123789
Re: What have you opened this week?
I did open a Vintage 2015 from Niepoort. First of 6, still pretty young and expressive, classy and pure, great balance, it does feel dryer than it is. I'll try to be patient with the others :)
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 12:56 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Krohns Sold
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2247
Re: Krohns Sold
It reminds me of the Delaforce deal. The stocks went one way while the brand went another way. The final consumer has really no idea of the stocks behind the brand, and they probably don't care. Let's not forget, we are the 1%.... what the 99% sees is completely different than our reality. I would a...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:09 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
- Replies: 5780
- Views: 1123789
Re: What have you opened this week?
Recently... Quevedo Vale D'Agodinho 2013 Vintage , one of my favorite, a pure blackberry and blackcurrant profile, tannins are getting smooth, a dryer style that I really enjoy, the bottle got emptied very quickly! Vargellas 2001 VP from half bottle : Drinking superbly at the moment, I'd look for mo...
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 12:35 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Is TCA in corks going down?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2158
Re: Is TCA in corks going down?
I don't remember the name of the product, but you add it to the wine and mix. I was in a winery, the barrel was smelling TCA, it is was contaminated. The winemaker offered me a glass and asked me if there was anything wrong with the wine. I said ''nothing wrong, but it is not a great wine''. Then he...