For The Love Of Port

One hour to our Fonseca tasting, sitting and trying to find some tastingnotes or other things.

12 Fonseca
then a great dinner.

the 1948 seems to be the blockbuster of the night.

Well, we are going to taste:

1945
1948
1955
1963
1966
1970
1977
1980
1985
1992
1994
1997

More later.

Cheers!

Niels

Symon B wrote:hi niels
what lot number was it please and what was name of auction house in denmark
its so rare there are no notes it apears thankyou symonb

Hi Symonb

Sorry, i dont keep that kind of information in my excel-sheet, and i know that TH auctions stopped selling wine, some years ago.

Niels

Hi

My records says that a danish bottled Fonseca 1912 was sold on TH Auctions (in Denmark) in december 2007, for 600 euro.

But you can buy some Taylors 1912 at the price of 1750 £ at Wilkinsons vintners in UK.

Cheers!

Niels

At our 70 horizontal almost a year ago, the bottles came in like this: The points are given 3 to the best,2 to the next and 1 point to the 3. best. The bottles are tasted blind, but you have a list over the bottles of the day. The Bold points are what i gave them on Parkers scale. 1. Fonseca 98 34 p...

The only experience i have with the VVV, is the difficulty finding some bottles of 1997 :)

So if you find some, let me know :)

Niels

Hi All It is funny to read the old posts. But 10 years from 2005, thats not going to be enough. I have tasted 4 Fonseca 1985 within the last 2-3 months. 2 was with a cork, that turned purple (almost) with sparkling winestones in the cork, 30 min. after i opened them. Those were good, but not stunnin...

Hi Nick A

Can you tell something about how long time before drinking you opened the 1963 ?

Going to drink Fonseca 1963 on both 20 february and 11. march, and have experienced the bottle as you describe it a couple of times before. i think i might have opened them to late.

Cheers

Niels

Had a Grahams 30-years Tawny open for about 7 month. It was still ok to drink, but the taste didnt get near the bottle, when it was just opened.

I would say it had dropped at least 6-8 points (on parkers scale)

Niels

When i searched through a port-site to find 4 bottles to fill up the 12 cases order (for the club and Board), i have had going since new-year, i found a case of Warre 1994 VP, that i had to buy. 376 £.

Cheers !

Niels

Well, my records go back to mid 2004 (my little excel-file in which i keep purchases, stock "an account" to ensure i do not purchase to much, and listings over point, where i got the port from, here it is now, etc. etc.) From the file i can see i have bought a case of Warre´s Otima in sept...

The VP only: average age is 14.95975 and a total of 7061 years.
Incl. tawnies the age is 15,28211 and a total of 7259.

Hey Tom want to swap cellars ?????

Niels

Hi Port Lovers Joined FTLOP a few days ago, hoping to learn and share good experiences in our shared passion. I remember my dad, always talked about the port he drank when he was young, not for the love of it, but more to get drunk. And with that I mind, I jumped into the port world when a student b...