For The Love Of Port

Bought some 9 gauge steel wire to play around with and gave up on the idea. Much too hard to tightly wrap around the neck of the bottle.
Tongs or nothing is where I am at.

Was looking into port tongs for my 40th. Dont have anything too too crazy to open (70 Fonseca magnum, 63 Taylor and Graham) but some of the crowd wont be super familiar w port and could use a little show. Felt cheap and came across the following https://www.instructables.com/id/Port-Tongs/. Does an...

Was looking into port tongs for my 40th. Dont have anything too too crazy to open (70 Fonseca magnum, 63 Taylor and Graham) but some of the crowd wont be super familiar w port and could use a little show. Felt cheap and came across the following https://www.instructables.com/id/Port-Tongs/. Does any...

If I was buying some cases to have wines to celebrate an anniversary (birth of child, marriage etc.) I would probably buy a mix of sizes. Dear Adrian, Are you considering the introdution of a "futures" type product that would allow people to buy these on the year of their celebratory even...

Dear Adrian, thank you so much for taking the time to engage directly with us. Hat tip to you for your continued push towards making high quality products (both Port and in tourism) which drive both our port enjoyment and economic activity for the entire Douro Valley. A couple of questions if I may:...

8 x Dow 1963 VP

V excited to be getting these!

you guys take this seriously

In what has become a Mother's Day tradition in my family, after a huge meal out 6 of us gathered at the bar to have a Port, this year a Graham's 30. This place does it well as the opened bottle had an argon plug seal. The Port was a lovely amber color with a moderate + viscosity. butterscotch, crem...

V nice - huge agreement on the noval black!
What was the format of your tasting? Did you guys go one by one talking about them or did you do them blind and/or individually wo discussion?

1 x 1997 Fonseca VP
1 x 1966 Graham VP
1 x 1963 Taylor VP
5 x 1963 Dow VP

Excited for the bottles from the 1960s - finally getting some!

To pile on w Glenn, some of the best Port i've had was from two bottles of 1955 Burmester Colheita (single year tawny) that were bottled in the 1980s and sat in bottle for some 35 yrs before i opened them.
I did note at the time that a touch more acidity would have made them even better.

Thank you guys for your suggestions! 2015 Stone Terraces I'll have to pass on - too much $$ and that kid would def be in for diff treatment vs the other two... either he'd have much fewer bottles or have been gifted a much greater value. Isn't it amazing how Port and people age in such a parallel wa...

My boys were born in 2012, 2014 and 2015.
Wanted to get each a case or two of the banner VP from their birth year.
Are there quality VPs from those years?

Are you getting the sense that port auction prices are going lower of late? This is also the time of year when Port purchases decrease. It's not cold out anymore and some people are stressing over their taxes. That's smart, certainly could be! Got a few more this past weekend, close to/at opening. ...

Been away for a while but the recent NYC Vesuvio Vertical brought my Port appetite back Over the last couple weeks got - 5 x 1985 Warre VP - 5 x Taylor 1977 VP - 3 x Graham 1970 VP - 2 x Taylor 1970 VP - 1 x 1.5L Fonseca 1970 VP Got some of these at prices clearly lower than past auction prices on W...

Vinegar comes from acetobacter, which is everywhere. Expose your wine to it, and you can make vinegar. On the other hand, if you can expose your wine to oxygen without acetobacter, you can make tawny. If you wanted to try this experiment in a safe way, you could put the wine in a decanter with a st...

Got lazy after the last NYC tasting back in May and never got around to finishing this one bottle that i had in decanter (decanter had a rubber lid on it - little air coming in and out). As i went to clean the decanter yesterday, there were tons of additional sediment. I assumed it would be terribly...

Funny you mention a helicopter ride up the Douro. I was talking to someone in the Douro about this being one of the two things I look forward to experience. The other, many can't buy ... photographing Douro vineyards that are snow covered. Being someone that spent the better part of 10 years workin...

Not a problem i am facing, sadly, but a friend's friend who is v wealthy is going to Porto and I ended up being asked what he should visit. Gave him the usual suggestions (yeatman, paparico, Graham's lodge, casa da Música, cafe majestic, livraria Bertrand, ribeira). Am wondering tho if there is some...

Fear will have to pass. Boy #3 is due May 30th. Will have my hands v full for a stretch.

Look fwd to a coming gathering of the New England folk.