For The Love Of Port

1906 Quinta da Brunheda Colheita Port At lunch on 14 Oct 2007... 101 years in wood & hand drawn from one pipe! Very dark brown with distinct coffee, old wood, raisins, burnt walnut, molasses, sulpher free dried apricot & heaven. Medium bodied & slightly hot on the palate but so complex, ...

The 1906 was opened on Sunday for Uncle Tom and a friend of mine and Nicos' from the Ebob website BB, Phil Wilkins who also enjoys Port. It was great after the fantastic rugby win on Sat. night we were all in a festive mood. We met up at The Bell, a small and wonderful pub in the outskirts of Cambr...

Dunce question I'm sure so I’ll guess ageability of the wine as a whole. Sorry as I should know this but NOT 100% sure in my case. Thanks.

Phil

vintage since the vintage 1963 . . apparently and according to Decanter.

Anyone know why this is the case & what exactly does the “foot-treading” addition mean to the actual finished wine?

For me, Niepoort 1997 for the oldest (Oliver) & some Niepoort 2003 futures for the youngest (Katie, she’ll love it!) but sadly 1999 wasn’t a declared year for our middle child (George) so he only has a 6 pack of 100PP Rene Rostaing Cote Blonde!

Which VPs have you laid down for your children?

I had thought or perhaps imagined that I read somewhere that the British/English bottlings were taken from superior Pipes by the then buyers – hence the post. That is just hearsay from a Port amateur. Perhaps someone with good knowledge could chime in.

Thanks Fred. I will look out for a bottle to guzzle when the weather cools slightly. I have some 91 Dow’s – keep or worth a young bottle soon to try now out of my pair?

Are they in general, a better buy, given good providence, than the same Estate bottles versions if available? The only bottles I have (Taylor, Grahams, Warre etc) and date from the 50’s & 60’s.

Thanks.
Phil

Sometimes, just sometimes I do like a tipple of younger VP mainly for the primary fruit. Has anyone any suggestions of young VP that is NOT complete infanticide but generally good for current drinking – I guess I’m thinking from the nineties onward?

Thanks
Phil

Passing the Lea & Sanderman office in St James' St, SW1 on the way to Berry Brothers this afternoon and low & behold I was gobsmacked at the sight of a bottle of 2003 Quinta do Noval & 2003 Quinta do Noval Nacional (+4 other 2003’s) in their window in bright sunshine & with reasonabl...