For The Love Of Port

The Vinum series is machine blown with an attached stem, so unless the Restaurant series is amazingly inexpensive (they'd have to be $5/stem at retail) you won't be able to get 4 of them for the cost of a $20 Vinum Port Glass . These numbers are correct, yes. As I said, they are only sold to "...

One note on the Riedel glasses, the glass that most Port professionals preferred in a recent tasting besides the Vinum is the new "Restaurant Port" glass (see http://malvedos.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/charles-on-tasting-glasses/ ) . The shape is almost identical to the Vinum, but is more ro...

"Unfortunately", this is "just" red wine aka Fabelhaft, not Port. Don't get me wrong, Fabelhaft is a great wine for casual drinking...

-hannes

I had the opPORTunity to try some Dow's Nirvana with chocolate on the weekend - and that really is a good combination. My impression was that Nirvana has more acidity and "taste" and less pure sweetness than Midnight (from my memory) or Six Grapes (tasted along). The chocolate, btw, was a ...

It seems that Nirvana is a replacement for Midnight.

What a coincidence that I opened a Graham's Crusted, bottled 2001, just yesterday. Just splendid!

I feel that a price that almost matches that of LBVs, you get more value with a Crusted.

-hannes

I vote for Cava. The thing with Prosecco is that the name stands for many different things: it is 1) a variety, 2) a protected region, 3) the name of at least three completely different products: spumante (made like Cava, Champagner, ...), frizzante (the CO2 is added to a "normal" wine und...

I agree that the "target age" for vintage (at least for me) is 15+ years. What I'd find interesting is, do you have the impression that your taste changed over the course of the decades and if yes, do you adapt your "wine buying policies" to that?

"Going organic" is quite a topic in many (richer) countries in Europe, but it is still much less common with wine than with other fruit products. I have the impression that with wine, producers don't really have a choice: they mostly try to "leave the vinyard on its own" to reduc...