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by john rk
Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:56 pm
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Weekday Ports
Replies: 25
Views: 3856

Re: Weekday Ports

I am currently enjoying Churchill 1991 as my weekday port. This reminds me of the famous sale of the Mentmore cellar in the late 1970's when Sothebys described a particular lot as "His Lordship's everyday drinking port" - Taylor's 1912... [cheers.gif]
by john rk
Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:57 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Emulating Lafite
Replies: 7
Views: 704

Emulating Lafite

Roy What is being done by the port industry to build a following in China? It strikes me that having lived in Asia for some time in my life that, the chinese do like sweet wines, but we do not see a high degree of interest in port as you see with bordeaux ? Is this indicative of insufficient marketi...
by john rk
Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:37 pm
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Your Port collection & maturation dynamics
Replies: 22
Views: 3185

Re: Your Port collection & maturation dynamics

Roy Of all the ways to start a wine cellar, I started at the age of 20-with vintage port! This was purely because I was introduced to Taylors 1955 by my brother-in-law in 1972 and I have not looked back. My tastes widened over the years and I have amassed a fairly catholic cellar, but I have always ...