For The Love Of Port

Dear Roy,

Are the tasting notes on this board archived? If not, for how long are they available?

If there is a separate archive for tasting notes, how is it accessed?

I bought a case of this wine upon release and have been slowly drinking it, probably having drunk my fourth bottle two months ago at MoCOOL. I've had a much more positive experience with this wine than many. I wonder if bottle variation might partly account for the difference, as I've found it to be...

TN: Niepoort 1990 Colhieta Porto , bottled 2002 (unfiltered), 20 pabv, $54/750 ml, Village Corner, Ann Arbor, MI. I picked up this wine on the way to the 2006 MoCOOL cooperative yearly offline, to go along with the other 'Sweet, Sixteen, and Bubbly' wines I had brought along up 1-75 from Piqua, OH. ...

I've recently bought a few bottles of port and madeira with damaged wax capsules. The bottlings are fairly recent (all within ten years or so) so the corks should be fine. Also, no sign of leakage. However, it would be good to reseal them if possible. Is there a certain type of wax I should buy? I'...

Funny that no one seems to mention that this logo can be found on SHERRY bottles--such as old bottles of Imperial Corregidor Oloroso Sherry.

Just noticed that there is an offering of this wine on Winecommune, closing in a few hours from now. Anyone have knowledge of this wine?

This is the bottle given to me recently by Cousin Ron from Evansville, Indiana, who is much more likely to have a top reserve California Cabernet in his glass, but who has some other good tastes, it seems. This wine is a true Tawny in color--a reddish-brown, transparent wine. The nose goes to a nice...

Dear Ryan, Thanks for your note. I envy your living in Madrid, which I have never yet visited, for the great wine and food tradition, which is I hear unlike anything anywhere else in the world, or even in Europe. Lustau Almacenistas Series are rather popular with sherry lovers here in the United Sta...

Dear Roy, I'm a frequent lurker here and even a contributor from time to time, because my main interest lies elsewhere. But I am by no means immune to the charms of your favorite tipple, which comes close to being my own favorite, losing out by only a hair. [Perhaps if all the labels were in polysyl...

You may be aware, Roy, that one thing that highly interests me are high-quality top-end sherries. They are so in many ways like ports and madieras, and can scale much the same heights, that I wonder if eventually you'll have this a forum for 'Ports, Madiera, and Sherries ." Do you, as I suspect...

A visit to my cousin in Evansville, Indiana during a family reunion saw me with a bottle of German wine to give a cousin. (If you need to know, it was the Bernkasteler Doctor Auslese from Wegeler Erben, 2002 vintage ). I was a bit overwhelmed when he handed me a bag containing a bottle of forty year...

Coudn't it just be called 'Tawny' with a vintage date attached? Such as YourAveragePortHouse Tawny Port 2006? This couldn't be confused with an age or a bottling date.

any of you'd like, on Squires/eRP forum. New thread there that some might find interesting, given the difference of opinion expressed by Squires and Rovani, a vast difference, I'd say.

There have been adequate supplies of this wine in the Midwest US for the last couple or three years and I've tasted it several times, but didn't note the bottling date. All tastings have been since about 2002, I'd say. Because I wasn't impressed with the wine, I never bothered to make a formal note....

TN: Cockburn's Quintas dos Canais, 1998 , 20 pabv; shipped and bottled by Cockburn Smithes & Co., S.A., imported by Allied Domecq Wines, Healdburg, CA; $30/750 ml (sale price), Arrow Wines, Kettering, OH. Dense and dusty purple. Throws off a bit of bottle stink at first, but then is full of mar...

This wine is now appearing in my local market marked down to $30.00, which seems a very fair price. Bought one just to taste. Anyone else had this?

The last one I tasted (about a year ago) was actually not the best example of a crusted port, but the interest generated might perhaps get the import companies off their duff to get some of the stuff in here. About 10 years ago Graham had a beauty that was imported and sold in Michigan, which unfort...

one bottle of 2000 Taylor Fladgate Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha sold for $136 yesterday on an online auction. Was this a good buy? Has anyone posted any notes on this wine? I was sorely tempted to bid on this auction, but my attention was taken up by a suberb deal on my beloved Germans and didn't...

RonnieRoots wrote:Tom, it looks so tidy because it's a colheita port. Bottled recently from a barrel that was discovered a couple of years ago. I don't recall the exact history (and who's involved), but I believe Stevie knows. I'm sure he'll chime in...

I believe that it is a colheita port.

Best, John

To quote from your extremely colorful and interesting article on the semiquincenary " Placement of 335 large rectangular, flat, or semi-circular granite stones with the word Feitoria and the date, were carved on the side facing the road. Remarkably, there are 103 “Feitoria” that remain standing...