For The Love Of Port

1988 Niepoort Colheita

1963 Andresen Colheita for 25 euros!

Probably a 10 or 20, though, as cooking with a 30 or 40 would be a waste. Cooking with any aged tawny is a waste. That's what the basic stuff is for :scholar: Depends. If you are using Port to feed your Christmas Cake (instead of brandy), the better the port you use, the better the cake! This year ...

i spent a weekend at the pousada, maybe in 2002. very pleasant but a bit run down at the time. i'm in Christian, vamos set up a company based in Cayman and buy it!

6 x 2009 Duorum VP Vinha de Castelo Melhor

1400 bottles that were filled recently from an old cask by a descendant of the Borges family. My understanding...which admittedly may be entirely wrong....is that these were bottled in 194/quote] You are correct Rob, my mistake. The more recent bottles were bottled in 1947. What happened now was ce...

IMO, they will. I know of a few pre-Phyll. casks in Gaia and a handful in the Douro too. But they are becoming more and more scarce as families feel the pinch of the economy and unload some of the precious stash, or more so, see this as a quick way to bring in substantial cash flow. There is a big ...

Daniel, How was the 1991 Barca Velha showing? I finished my last bottle a couple of years ago, from 2 cases I had purchased. Seemed by the time (2010) that I had killed off the last bottle, the 1991's seemed a little long in the tooth. What was your impression? Roy, My main impression was "tir...

1991 Barca Velha x 2

1978 Niepoort VP

10 Year tawny Vieira de Sousa and 1996 Quevedo Colheita

2 x 2005 Quevedo VP
2 x 2007 Quevedo VP
2 x 1996 Quevedo Colheita

Cálem Quinta da Foz 1980 and Andresen 20 Year tawny (bottled 1990) How were those? Was there anything left to the Andresen 20? The T-stopper on the Andresen was shot to pieces, the wine was somewhat cloudy and you got a lot of heat on the nose. After resting some time in the decanter it drank quite...

Cálem Quinta da Foz 1980 and Andresen 20 Year tawny (bottled 1990)

2009 VP Vieira de Sousa x 12

This was my first tour with Roy and Mario, and I can't thank you enough for organizing such a great trip. From the first to the last moment I enjoyed every second of it! It was not only the great wine or the beautiful landscape - it was the group of fantastic people that made this tour such a marve...

2003 Portal LBV

1961 Krohn

Rumour has it that Dirk Niepoort purchased a classic property in Bairrada, Quinta de Baixo - http://forum.revistadevinhos.iol.pt/vie ... 41&start=0

Colares is very close to Lisbon, near Sintra, a classic wine region (along with Bucelas and Carcavelos, for example) that now has only a few hectares and a handful of producers. Urban expansion has been the main cause of the destruction of the region. Vines are mostly ungrafted planted on sandy terr...