For The Love Of Port

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2022 Quinta do Noval Branco Grande Reserva - need to keep my hands off this, but it ain't easy to do so. Every time I open one, my friends are blown away.

JMdF TRILOGIA, Moscatel de Setubal - from a blend of 1900, 1934 and 1965 comes this great bottle, purchased a week ago (<280 Euros) and consumed two nights later. As wonderful as I remembered it to be, loaded with figs and prune flavors, soft, lt-med. weight, and the acidity is fresh but not overt h...

1963 Burmester Colheita
1931 Krohn Colheita

I came from a dinner nearby and passed by it. It seemed a very young crowd and had I not had an event to go to, would have gone in and checked it out. It is definitely NOT out of the way at all. Very centrally located. I will get there eventually, but there are a LOT of great places to visit nowadays.

Moses wrote: We drink more LBV's the last couple of years. Warre's being the most frequent followed by Dow. Funny thing, in WA state, I never saw many Warre's LBVs. When I lived in VA, they were everywhere but not in Washington, fwiw. Dow's was prevalent though and some years they did Unfiltered ver...

Crasto too for me, Mike. But honestly, I love the Smith Woodhouse 1995 and 1999 LBVs. Both were phenomenal. If you have not had the 1999 grab one if you can find it! I've also really enjoyed some Dow's and Taylor's over the years ... even though they were filtered. But SW, regardless of the fact tha...

Opened a JH Andresen for a guest who will be coming on this year's 20th Anniversary PHT2. It was their 40 year old Tawny and such a classy Port. So good and pure.

A friend of mine from Madeira, came to visit and have dinner together. I brough a great Port. He surprised me and opened a bottle that I had only had once prior. an excellent bottle of 1899 Terrantez from Leacock's. He had bought it in the early 00's and did not know then, when it had been bottled. ...

Frederick Blais wrote: Maybe could have include the name of the producer as an important factor... my 2 cents ;) You're absolutely right, Fred. That was an omission on my part. Desculpe! [friends.gif] Where are you working nowadays, I can't keep track of you ... you move too quickly. [cheers.gif]

Mike J. W. wrote: I'm definitely drinking more LBV's than when I first started really getting into Port back in 2016 for the simple reason that I didn't really know what an LBV was. That makes total sense. LBV is a confusing name for those just beginning to explore Port. I saw the lineup you had wit...

Over the course of the past two weeks: Villar d'Allen 20 year old Tawny Port - this was the 4th lot, produced by Quevedo. Very good, but I preferred the prior bottlings better. A stellar bottle of Fonseca 1970 VP was opened by a good friend. Two of us drained it over a 3-hour window. Slowing down wi...

I am helping out my friend Jamie Garard, who has only 2 seats left at the table: Grapes for Great Causes presents: 2 Day Legacy Vintage Port Tasting Fonseca vs Quinta do Noval Nacional October 18th & 19th, 2025 October 18th - 12:00pm Lunch at Oceanique 505 Main St, Evanston, IL. October 19th - 1...

1970 Taylor's VP - in good, but not top condition. The bottle we had on Lisa's tour was MUCH better, but it was an ex-cellars bottle. This wasn't. :( 1953 Royal Oporto Colheita - very smooth and luxurious, but not as fresh as I would have hoped. Still a drop dead gorgeous bottle, just not the best v...

I bought a case of the Carnation bottles after Covid, realizing that the 50th anniversary was coming up and the cost all in (one of our discounts offered at the Sogevinus shop) came to 95 Euros per bottle. Glad I purchased 12 then. Only have 3 currently remaining, I opened one for my gf's family on ...

I had this nearly exactly a month ago. It was freshly bottled and there was nothing musty on the nose. Can I ask what was the bottling date of your bottle, Stewart?

Thanks!

RH

Nowadays, I find this Port is near perfect when only decanted for 3 hours. I like it fresh and it shows tons of fruit and I am looking to get the full blast of fruit character, not into softening it to the point of where it will be at in another decade. There is plenty of vibrancy to this Port right...

Possibly this coming week ... will know soon!

Many of the current users of this Forum, have been here for a lot of years, some even since the very beginning ... 20 years ago, next month! Your participation is truly appreciated. We also have lots of newbies on the site who mostly come here to "lurk" and just gain knowledge from what th...

Thanks Alex et al, For me it was provenance first as well. Nowadays, I typically am buying older Colheita 3:1 vs. Vintage Ports, so storage matters and the number of owners is a question that I like to have answered. I have also been squirreling away some VOTP and VVOTP and my only question upfront,...