For The Love Of Port

Roy Hersh wrote:Teresa,

Nice to have you join us. How do you come by some of these hard to find Ports?

They're gifts!!! It's the Port production area!

Roy Hersh wrote:This bring us back to the age old question: What was the first LBV?

What's the answer??? Any idea?

Thanks... I've thought about that when I've seen these fridges for sale, but it would have to be quite big. We've got a lot of Port.

Thanks for your replies.

I think I will take the suggestion to open one to see. I have several bottles!!! I'll report back here...

Hi, I'm Teresa, I'm English and I live close to the Douro Valley. I teach in a university in Porto. Where we live, Port is common place, and we are regularly given a lot of it, of all types, ranging from valuable LBVs, to unlabelled bottles produced locally, which never made the trip down the Douro ...

We are given most of our Port, whether vintage, LBV, or even unlabelled... we live in the middle of the Port producing region. I love Port, but I can't drink the rivers of it that are given to us! So I rarely buy Port, except as gifts when travelling, because flying restrictions mean I can't take it...

I have several bottles of very old Port from my husband's grandfather's wedding. This includes Neipoort LBV 1929, Burmester LBV 1929,and others. For the past 24 years we have kept it lying down in the larder, the coolest place in the house. However, in the summer, the temperature can go above 20ºc e...