For The Love Of Port

New Years eve, I had a Niepoort Colheita 1908. Pretty good [cheers.gif]. But it did'nt beat the Niepoort VV (old bottling) I had this summer. This Year has been Portcrazy, taking part of the historic Niepoort Garrafeira-tasting in DK and enjoying some nicely matured VP's from 1935-1945. What a Year....

Had some Nice friends and family over last friday. Opend two bottles from 1963. One Casa do Douro (special made for the Portuguese people), and One Kopke Colheita. Pretty fast, the bottles were emtied, and I opend a Sandeman VP 1960. Ending up opening a forth bottle, a very pleasant Javali 30YO A ve...

An ancient Lacrima from Ramos Pinto. Sweet and soft. But still alive. Just the Way I like my Ports! That is an amazing looking bottle Allan, thank you for posting a picture and please don't discard it. Out of curiosity where did you find it? Mahmoud. Hi Mahmoud I spend countless hours on Portuguese...

I have a bottle of Fonseca 1975. And a table for 12 people.
So instead of Boston, bring Your bottle to Denmark, and we will have a Party

And the winters in Denmark, Can be beautiful

An ancient Lacrima from Ramos Pinto.
Sweet and soft. But still alive.
Just the Way I like my Ports!

After the tasting, our host presented 2 more 30 Year olds. A Messias bottled in 1975, and a most wonderful Fonseca, believed to have been bottled in the mid 60s. If the before mentioned Fonseca had been part of the tasting, There would have been another winner. Still powerful and fresh. Reminding me...

On friday 10 people opend 8 bottles of 30 Year olds.
Then were tasted blind, and The top 3 of The Night was:
1) Javali
2) Ramos Pinto
3) Krohn

It was my first Javali, and it surprised hugely.

Last sunday my entire body and sleepingbag had a certain scent. And in my nose and throat was The Best sensation of quality... 16 Danish port-enthusiasts, gathered around tasting the complete set of Niepoorts 10 Garrafeiras. And for starters, we had 3 bottles of Port, The youngest beeing a Sandeman ...

Vintage: Niepoort 1942
Colheita: Niepoort 1900
Tawny: Niepoort VV
White: V. de Carvalho Special Reserve (20 YO)

So far an amazing Portyear!

One of my All time favorites! A simple bottle of Port from Niepoort. Fine old Senior Port. In Cask for 7 years, in bottle for 39 years (as written on the cork), in a decanter for 3 hours, and in my glass for 15 min. Simply the Best non vintage I know. (Not talking about the VV offcoarse) The Nose wa...

And....enjoying my bottles, my girlfriend found this Colheita from 1925. Never seen before....

Have a Nice summer.
Allan

And this funny bottle from Rodriques. There is a small bottle inside....

From Portugal came some 15 bottles...Just ordinary Portwine, 40-80 years old. Among 3 bottles of White Port (Garrafeira Particular 1948).

But also two bottles of..... Sandeman

The tasting notes are all 5 of us chipping in, and the 'dentist', came from my sweet girlfriend.
Clove oil, is used in the dentistworld, as an antiseptic.

And she tasted clove in the port...

Mt. Ventoux....the Nose and taste just getting better and better or higher and higher..

The Shepherds's 1937 is now history. The cork was soft, and for the first time, the Durand didnt make it come out in one piece....Had vintage 1937 written on it. The Corks condition tells me, that it was +50 years old The port was very cloudy. A bit like a colheita, sweet and fat. Nothing special. A...

What a Portlist Al. Quite amazing. Hope Your liver survieved the weekend. My final bottle of the weekend. Starting saturday with DOW's 1964, sunday Shepherd's Vintage 1937 and ending yesterday with Niepoort VP 1942 and an old bottling of the Niepoort VV. This is the third time trying this port - and...

Old bottling from the 1960's. Colour: Dark caramel Nose: apricot, orange, almond, polish Palate: rasin, plum, citrus, walnuts, cinnamon, leather, dentist. My friend said: the taste is like Mont Ventoux. This is the most complex Portwine I have ever had. So powerfull, deep and old. Simply amazing. Ha...

The 1964 DOW's Vintage is now decanted.... Facts and funny: 1) Bottled and labeled in Denmark 2) In a champagne bottle 3) With a T-stopper 4) lots of crust 5) Big Nose, and round and deep taste (just after opening) The picture of the wineglas is taken through the bottle. Just to show the green and b...

To celebrate my upcomming hollidays, this weekend is going to be crazyyyyy. Saturday: My Girl and me...+ 2 good friends: One bottle of the 1964 Vintage from DOW's (a Danish bottlng) Sunday: My Girl and me...+ daugther and boyfriend: One bottle of the 1937 'Vintage' from Shepherd 's and on Monday: My...

Once again Ramos Pinto showes great potential.
And 1880-1930 Jubilee.

Not the longest aftertaste, But sweet, soft and smooth.

And look at the colour! Bright as appeljuice...