For The Love Of Port

Andy Velebil wrote:I've been told this year is looking really good so far. If the weather continues to hold...

Excellent, we can nowstart the speculation on which produceres are going for a trifecta

David Spriggs wrote:2015 Quinta do Crasto Touriga Nacional
2013 Quinta do Crasto Maria Teresa
2015 Prats & Symington Chryseia

Any impressions on the 2015 TN?

Excellent, it makes it so much easier to find them.

yes, I saw your note on it.
I guess I'll just have to put a very long drinking window on this one

2011 Ferreira Porto Late Bottled Vintage - Portugal, Douro, Porto (10-06-2019) Note written after the bottle has been open for 72 hours, having tasted it over all four days. This is an absolute monster with impressive amounts of fruit, tannins and acidity. The fruit is mainly grapes with a bit of d...

I have seen it now with a couple of wines, the specific one is Ferreira lbv 2011 from the Nov. 16 issue.
So it seems a while ago since last.

Not sure if this has been addressed before, but it isn't all of Roy's tasting notes that are available in the TNDB, would it be possible to somhow merge the notes from the newsletters with the database?

2 x Ferreira Dona Antonia 20 year tawny.

Stumbled across these at the local supermarket, probably mispriced, at 35 USD

Thomas, I agree 100% with your objectivity statement, it is almost impossible not to be influenced by the label. With regards to the newer vintages receiving high scores, I think (hope) it is more an indication of the potential for the wine 30-40 years down the road, that is how I interpret them and...

option B, and it's not even close

12 x 2016 Quinta do Crasto Touriga Nacional 12 x 2015 Quinta do Crasto Vinhas Velhas Old Vines Reserva Nice haul, Irecently bought both of those wines as well. :winepour: The Crasto Touriga Nacional is one of my favorite wines, so I try to buy that every year that it's produced. Yeah, agree complet...

David Spriggs wrote:12 x 2016 Quinta do Crasto Touriga Nacional
12 x 2015 Quinta do Crasto Vinhas Velhas Old Vines Reserva

Nice haul, Irecently bought both of those wines as well.

2 cases of 97 Burmester

At this age the oak should have already started to be a distant background component and not in-your-face. So here's my question. At almost 15 years old and the quite noticeable oak that isn't going anywhere, what do you think will happen when the fruit starts to fade even more but the oak remains?...

6 x Smith Woodhouse '80

2003 Portal VP. Hasn't budged much. Still very primary and tannic. Very much agree with this. We had a Roy's top 12 tasting here in Odense a couple of months back, and all 3 bottles showed very poorly, so I decided to open one from the case I have and found it to be just like you say, also as I rec...

That target has since morphed to two, and when the 1922 vintage reaches it's century in three years time, I'll probably have a hundred centenarian bottles.. Should you need any kind of help getting rid of these somewhat over the hill bottles, feel free to send out an invite for a cellar clearing pa...

Taylors can be added, both the regular and the VV

I think you can ad Qta do Crasto to the mix, according to the video above

A very nice article, and I can see why Eric would say that two of the most well known grapes aren't exactly up and coming.
I do however agree with the article in so far that single varietals from Portugal is still very much an up'n coming market.