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by Jeremy Stratton
Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:21 am
Forum: Port Basics
Topic: how long can I cellar a bottle of tawny?
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how long can I cellar a bottle of tawny?

This past May in the Douro Valley, we received a nice gift from the proprietor at the bed and breakfast Casa Cimeira, in Valenca do Douro near Pinhao. He saw us off with a long, thin corked bottle of ten-year tawny port, unlabeled. (His family also grows and sells grapes, and they make some port and...
by Jeremy Stratton
Fri May 15, 2009 4:48 pm
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Extra dry white port, cloudy
Replies: 2
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Extra dry white port, cloudy

We bought a bottle of extra dry white port at Quinta da Pacheca (where we ran into Roy Hersh, by the way) in early May. After bringing it home (in checked baggage) to the US and opening, it appears to very cloudy with a good amount of sediment at the bottom. Is this normal? Should we decant a white ...