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by Phil W
Sat May 03, 2025 10:20 am
Forum: Port Basics
Topic: Port Buying Decisions
Replies: 11
Views: 192176

Re: Port Buying Decisions

Roy Hersh wrote:This is a poll for FTLOPers to select the primary factor why they choose a Port in their purchasing decision.
I'd have to say that for me, the primary factor for me to buy is "because it is delicious". Others come into account, but that is definitely primary.
by Phil W
Fri Mar 07, 2025 11:57 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Durand Port Version
Replies: 6
Views: 3471

Re: Durand Port Version

Some of us online here got into a group buy to make and purchase that longer version a while back. It is interesting to me to see that they now are selling it to the public. Maybe they made more than they sold to us and are getting rid of them, or they decided it was a viable product and made more....
by Phil W
Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:46 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Fraudulent Portuguese Wine Seized East of Porto
Replies: 14
Views: 6793

Re: Fraudulent Portuguese Wine Seized East of Porto

The IVDP fraud gallery seems to be focussed only on wine produced outside of the Douro/Portugal which could of course therefore not be classified as Port, rather than on counterfeit bottles of the genuine product, which does feel like a missed opportunity. I created a page a few years ago with some ...
by Phil W
Tue Nov 12, 2024 2:11 pm
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: What have you opened this week?
Replies: 6273
Views: 2655159

Re: What have you opened this week?

Al B. wrote:Absolutely identical. I’d never be able to tell them apart.
Dear Alex, I have a case of F85, please let me know when you're not looking...
by Phil W
Mon Sep 23, 2024 2:20 am
Forum: Port Basics
Topic: Sugestions in 1969 & 1973
Replies: 13
Views: 11662

Re: Sugestions in 1969 & 1973

As a '69er myself, I can add a few tasted in the last decade or so: = Vintage/SQVP/Crusted Taylor Vargellas 1969 sqvp - very good Taylor 1969 crusted - tried once from magnum; fair (n.b. Wine Society 1969 crusted known to exist though not seen, and believed to also be Taylor 1969 crusted) = LBVs: Wa...
by Phil W
Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:09 pm
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Decanting time for 1900 Niepoort Colheita
Replies: 8
Views: 5808

Re: Decanting time for 1900 Niepoort Colheita


John Danza wrote:For those who have tasted the 1900 Niepoort Colheita,
...
how far in advance the wine should be decanted before service?
Exactly as long as it would take me to get to you :)
by Phil W
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:48 pm
Forum: Other Portuguese Wines and Tasting Notes
Topic: Iron Maiden making a Portuguese Wine
Replies: 13
Views: 6441

Re: Iron Maiden making a Portuguese Wine

Right. I love Maiden, but I'm holding out for the AC/DC Charlotte's very very very old Acacia Avenue tawny; maybe I'll try some of Eddie's "old bones" white while I'm waiting...
by Phil W
Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:50 am
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1985 Quinta do Crasto Vintage Port
Replies: 5
Views: 2672

Re: 1985 Quinta do Crasto Vintage Port

I also used to have a single bottle of Quinta do Crasto 1987 vintage port (here in the UK, if relevant) which I drank a few years ago - it was delicious.
by Phil W
Fri Aug 04, 2023 12:55 pm
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Is TCA in corks going down?
Replies: 12
Views: 4487

Re: Is TCA in corks going down?


Moses Botbol wrote: They sprayed the barrel with Pooph
Is this your explanation as to why tawny goes golden brown with age?

by Phil W
Thu Jun 08, 2023 6:09 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: What have you opened this week?
Replies: 6273
Views: 2655159

Re: What have you opened this week?

I wonder with the Graham's and Fonseca '94's if it was bottle variation? I recently had a '94 Graham's and it blew me away. The last Fonseca I had about a year or so ago was strictly "meh", but the one I had about 2 years ago was fantastic. Go figure John M and I had the '94 SW a year or ...
by Phil W
Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:15 pm
Forum: Port & Madeira Marketplace
Topic: Durand-style Openers
Replies: 14
Views: 16179

Re: Durand-style Openers

the coil appears shorter than a Durand's. I would not want anything shorter and I would actually prefer if Durand made a longer coil version. Agreed, an extra half inch on the length would definitely help on some port corks. I believe the inventor of the Durand did experiment with a longer worm, an...
by Phil W
Thu May 25, 2023 4:03 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Fun Port Quiz for the Opinionated
Replies: 9
Views: 3623

Re: Fun Port Quiz for the Opinionated

Odd. The forum is allowing me to post this test reply, yet not my actual reply which is being rejected with "A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site" by Wordfence, see site admin.
by Phil W
Sat Apr 22, 2023 2:30 pm
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Graham's Malvedos Tasting April 22...Saturday
Replies: 10
Views: 3704

Re: Graham's Malvedos Tasting April 22...Saturday

I forget which ear that means you have to lose...
by Phil W
Thu Mar 16, 2023 4:40 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Maia Vintage and Colheita
Replies: 8
Views: 3848

Re: Maia Vintage and Colheita

Hi Alle, Regarding the Maia brand, the VPID (Vintage Port Image/Identification Database) has pictures of a bottle of their 1987 VP (see here ), and the label from that photo shows that the 1987 VP was bottled by "Hutcheson, Feuerheed & Associados". Those images came from the guys at vi...
by Phil W
Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:52 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: possible 1945 port, producer/shipper unknown
Replies: 23
Views: 11310

Re: possible 1945 port, producer/shipper unknown

Niepoort used that type of 3 on their 1937 colheita for example, but with a very different font. ... feist have used it on colheita's as well but again a different font. Interesting; I'd seen it on a Niepoort bottle, but that was a significantly different font; but your Feist example is closer to s...
by Phil W
Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:38 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: possible 1945 port, producer/shipper unknown
Replies: 23
Views: 11310

Re: possible 1945 port, producer/shipper unknown

The more I look at it, the more I think that's a '3' not a '5'. In all of the examples shown, the right side of the bottom of the '5' is easily more than half of the height of the character. Not so - at least not as inarguably so as in the examples - for the bottle in question. Also in all of the e...
by Phil W
Tue Sep 27, 2022 8:50 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: possible 1945 port, producer/shipper unknown
Replies: 23
Views: 11310

Re: possible 1945 port, producer/shipper unknown

Hi Mike. I agree that it seems unlikely that additional lines of text above would have been so cleanly erased unless it was done deliberately; I can see little value to be gained by doing so, aside perhaps from hiding a lesser brand name and hoping that a buyer might believe it to be a greater brand...
by Phil W
Wed Sep 21, 2022 1:32 pm
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: Database for Port
Replies: 12
Views: 3786

Re: Database for Port


Glenn E. wrote: exponentially more difficult.
careful...!

by Phil W
Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:03 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
Replies: 4358
Views: 1499450

Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?


Mike J. W. wrote:Don't feel too bad, Phil. I don't believe they were even offered in the States. At least not yet.
Ah, but I'm not in the States either, I'm UK-based. Admittedly you have it worse though!


by Phil W
Fri Sep 02, 2022 12:29 am
Forum: Port Forum
Topic: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
Replies: 4358
Views: 1499450

Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?

Al B. wrote:4 x Kopke 50yo White
2 x Kopke 50yo tawny

Both are brilliant blends. Both are sold out. Both are way underpriced compared to their competition.
I haven't even had the chance to taste these yet (though keen to do so), never mind make purchasing decisions, and they're sold out already? Bah!