For The Love Of Port

Its nice to see Roy and FTLOP website cited in the Ontario Classics catalogue (LCBO) and in a lot of publications around the world, it indicate great achievement, congratulation Roy !

Keep up the good work.

Hopefully some new canadian member will come to FTLOP.

Regards,

Gilles Séguin

I had only one tasting with US port type wine. It was the 1990 merlot port from Pindor vineyard in Long Island, N-Y. I bought two half bottles at the vineyard when I visited with my brother. We opened one about four years ago and It was not bad at all. As far as I can remember, it was still in good ...

For me :

Warre's
Niepoort
Taylor-Fladgate

I also would love to travel with you people on the harvest tour, one day it will happen.

In my dreams I am able to buy a house in the Douro and have the time to visit one and every port house and taste their ports. That would be incredible. Dreaming doesnt cost anything. Thats nice.

Most of the time I will decant unfiltered LBV's, depending if I am at home or visiting friends. I did not try to decant filtered port yet.
Todd, I like your experiment idea, looking forward to your results, in the name of science of course.

For me about the third of my cellar is port, about 100 bottles of port.
50% of those are vintages, 25% are LBV's and the rest mainly tawny's, some colheitas and regular everyday port.

Gilles Séguin

I guess the port wine industry is like other industry, globalization gets every where. But for me, wilthout condenming larger producer like Sogrape or others, I also like to encourage smaller producer to make wine that represent their ''terroir'', their backyard, and that they make wine (port) that ...

This is an excellent idea. :D I always wanted to try port with a full meal, I have heard about it, read about it, but never tried it, yet ! Recipes and ideas would be the start of new tasting sensations I am sure. I have made port sauce to go with meat but no more than that. I sup port the idea.

Thanks for the TN, I did not tasted that port yet, but it is the one available in the SAQ store right now, so I will definitely buy some. Cellaring: 0-10 years. It is ready to drink and it is a filltered wine, but I think it will develope nice in the bottle. Some will say that filtered LBV does not ...

Thank you for the information guys, I missed that news. I am downloading it right now. I'll be back with my comments.

Gilles Séguin

Thanks Bman for your TN I was thinking of buying that wine at my LCBO store in Ottawa. I presently have a 1991 vintage of that wine in my cellar, I dont know if it will have old the road ? When I open it I'll post my TN. When I taste the 1999 I will post my notes. From my tasting club, the Quebec ci...

Unfortunately I have not tasted enough of the great port shippers yet to judge on their quality, I am counting on this forum, articles, books, etc to evaluate port. But, if I must judge from what I tasted so far, I would go with Warre's. The general quality of their products are excellent, they prod...

For me it all started in a wine tasting course in 1990(I think). The last evening we tasted the Fonseca Bin 27 port. It was tasteful and I liked it very much. Before that the only thing I knew about port(so I though)was the ''Canadian port'' served at military mess dinners for the toasts in the midd...

How about,

Not just wine, PORT

Wines good, but PORT is better

PORT, experience it !

This is my second madeira tasting. But the first was quite some time ago, and it was a 1957 madeira. Tawny like color. Nose of caramel, maple and later spices, nuts and fruit cake On taste, brown sugar, nuts. very good aftertaste of nuts. A well balanced wine. Very nice. I like it very much. Drank t...

Hi Tim, I looked rapidly the list on the website and my suggestion are these products (the ones that I have taste, others might be as good or better ?) Graham's six grapes, excellent port, like it very much Fonseca bin 27 Warre's Warrior Dow's LBV Graham's 20yo tawny and for the cellar the Warre's 1...

Hi, I have only one mag. in my cellar a Warre's 85. But I checked in the monopoly winestore in my province (SAQ) and here is the list of available magnums ( I include the price in us $ for your info.) Calem 2000 (89$) Delaforce 1977 (188$) Dow's 1977 (221$), Dow's 2000 (106$) Fonseca 2000 (158$) Gou...

Thank you Roy for the information, excellent as always.

Warre's was one of the first port that I tasted (VP), so I always have a little thing for that port. I appreciate the info.

Thanks again.

Gilles

I like the idea of white port tasting. It is summer time and it would be an op port tunity to expand our sphere of tasting and for some to discover a new wine. I have tasted 4 or 5 white ports. I like the Offley Cachucha, excellent ! We have a good selection of white port here in Quebec ( about 20),...

I started my knowledge of wine by following a tasting course back in 1989 with a tasting group in my region. I have been a member for 6 or 7 years attending 2 to 3 events per year, out of about 10 to 12 tastings per year for the group. Now the tasting group have more than 200 members (in my region )...