For The Love Of Port

Thanks for the tip Roy - I'll try to clear the Continente shelves of Portal 1999 - my kids, wife and parents in law can all give me a bottle for Christmas! I passed by Vinologia this morning, and saw a display of Portal 2006 with a prominent quote from a certain Roy Hersh (or possibly a misquote, be...

Quinta do Portal 1999 - very pleased with this bottle, and it only cost €16.49 at Continente (probably the largest Portuguese supermarket).

Whenever I am in Porto (which is quite often - 4 weeks last year, 6 this year), I try to get to a Port lodge every couple of days - the deal that I have with my wife is that I am free to go, but I have to take my son (who inevitably says "not Daddy Bottles.....again!"). I think that I have...

Ramos Pinto 1982 LBV - bitter disappointment. One dimensional and performed a lot worse than a basic ruby - and had a peculiar smell a bit like tobacco ash. Worried because I have a lot of bottles of Ramos Pinto VP and LBV that were cellaraed upright during decades...hoping that that isn't why the ...

Sandeman 2000 Vau Vintage - €18.75 from a Portuguese supermarket - couldn't believe the quality for the price - really pleased with this one, and will go back and buy a lot more in a couple of days Ramos Pinto 1982 LBV - bitter disappointment. One dimensional and performed a lot worse than a basic r...

A couple of old but non-premium Ramos Pinto ports:
- Quinta da Urtiga (very pleasant ruby)
- Quinta Sao Domingos (tawny with no indication of age).

1982 Ramos Pinto LBV - very sweet, almost syrupy; haven't discovered much in the way of distinguished flavour yet, but still looking for it....nothing at all like the 2005 LBV. 2004 Croft LBV - this is the third bottle that I have opened, and the first time that it has really worked for me - tasting...

6x Tesco's Finest 2000 Vintage (in 375ml bottles) [Tesco is the biggest supermarket chain in the UK] Tasted a bottle last week and was very happy with it, so bought a few more today. Found them in a couple of Tescos, but they aren't mentioned on the website. I am finding the whole Port wine at Tesco...

A bottle of Ramos Pinto....its a very sweet (cloyingly so) tawny port that is actually quite pleasant. It is an old bottle that only has 2 words (other than Ramos-Pinto, Porto and Portugal) on the label: Alourado-Adamado. My in-house Portuguese translator (wife) wasn't too helpful - she says that Al...

Ever see this bottle before? I know the pictures are crappy. I believe that I actually have a bottle of this very same wine. We inherited a house in porto with a wine cellar. When clearing out/tidying up the cellar I found a bottle very similar to this one more or less discarded among some empty bo...

1x Ramos Pinto LBV 2005 €16.50
1x Ramos Pinto LBV 2004 €16.50
12x Ramos Pinto Vintage 1997 @ £24.50

Thank you all - help greatly appreciated. I will try some of the other cellars over the next 2 days (the deal I have with my wife is that I can spend all the time in the cellars that I like....as long as I take my 3 year old son with me! that reduces 'daddy bottle' time to a couple of hours a day at...

The members of this forum have been great in helping on my previous questions. I'm hoping that you may be able to give me a few pointers again... This week I find myself in Porto. My wife was born here, and we come to visit her family 4 or 5 times a year...in fact we have a second home here and I ju...

Going off on a slight tangent.... If you live in Brighton and you bought the port from a Brewery shop, I'm guessing that you may have been along to Harvey's in Lewes....is that right? I have been meaning to get along to Harvey's for a while down, but haven't found the excuse to drive down from Londo...

All, Many thanks for your help and advice. I just got back from Davy's with a bottle of Warre's 1985. There is snow on the ground in London today, and I was really worried that I might slip in the road and break the bottle when I walked home, but got back in one piece. Looking forward to trying this...

I wasn't sure if this should be posted in the Port Forum or in Port Basics. As I'm a noob in this forum I suppose that it is safer to stick with the Port Basics... So this is the situation: On Tuesday I will be celebrating my parent's Silver Wedding anniversary with them. Today I figured that a bott...

João Well, having said that I would like very much to visit your cellar!!!! It would be a pleasure - it isn't enormous (a few hundred bottles), but among the vintages between '70 and '94 it does have some unusual wines that I haven't seen anywhere else, for example: 1937 and 1962 colheitas, Port Nob...

Hello João. I was very pleased to see that you are a guest host on here. Ramos Pinto has a special place in my cellar and also in my family history - my wife's godfather was a salesman for Ramos Pinto, as was his father before him. Although he is no longer with us, his cellar lives on in Porto, and ...

Many thanks for the welcome! I've always enjoyed port, but since inheriting a cellar of Ramos Pinto wines earlier this year I have tried to understand this incredible drink a lot better. I didn't want to dive in at the deep end with vintages, so I have focussed on LBVs to learn more about the styles...

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Quinta do Castelinho LBV 1997
Ramos Pinto Lagrima
Ramos Pinto Colheita 1937 (bottled 1973)