For The Love Of Port

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I should have mentioned that the Kopke 2000s I saw (bought some more yesterday) were bottled this year. I will be trying at least one soon, Christmas at the latest. I have no idea whether I like bottle aged tawnies or colheitas because I have never had one. We very rarely drink tawnies, averaging le...

Thanks for that. My wife announced that dinner was ready just as I began typing, and I made the XE mistake in my rush. I meant to post "US$22/£14" - based on some money transfers last week. I considered the bottles cheap, even by Portuguese standards. I do tend to age all Portuguese wines ...

My first visit for a while - I have been too busy working both outdoors and in, but this thread is appropriate to the reason I logged in. We needed a top up of various things so went shopping last week. I have never bothered much with tawnies, but saw some Kopke 2000 Colheita at €17-50 (a shade over...

Last month in Lisbon. The first time my wife and I had been out to dinner since July 2010. An international hotel chain, known as Tryp in Portugal, and their hotel near the Oriente station. It was an unscheduled stayover and we had to bed down nearby. The food was excellent, and the service too, but...

By the Way, the Danish Capital is in Danish "KobenHavn" or translated to english: Buy a Port. Thank you. One more to add to my never ending pieces of what I consider usefull, and others consider useless, pieces of information. I do believe this is the only new thing I have learned today, ...

I have had a few Kopke reds and whites from 2008 vintage onwards in the last few months and enjoyed them all. I think they will all improve in cellar.

Keep buying. Portugal needs the flow of foreign money.

Searching likely possibilities for info revealed nothing except that there are a few on various sites like ebay and that it is a Tawny. Others more knowledgeable than me may contradict this, but I beieve Graham's (the real Port people) always show the name as Graham's whereas the photos I found of t...

VAT is a minefield. Do not rely on your daughter reclaiming it if she is UK resident and does the purchasing. I left the UK in 2003, but was considered somewhat of an "expert" on it having had previous responsibility for it in a £1m a week business. Regulations have no doubt altered in tha...

I'm not, personally , a fan of tawny port - I like my port to taste like fortified wine, and old tawny simply doesn't. I drink a lot of wine, and I always decant for at least an hour (unless it's fizzy, of course) - but I always try a splash immediately after decanting - in my experience, very rare...

It could be useful to several posters on here to know how she fares. My experience of browsing duty free shops for wine is that they do not stock much that is aged.

She needs to be very careful about comparing prices. I made a trip back to the UK earlier this month and found the supposed duty free in the airports were more expensive than in shops selling retail. Also, the few LBVs I saw in supermarkets there were close in price to LBVs here in Portugal - slight...

From this list Burgundy, Champagne, Mosel, Piedmont and Tuscany would all be higher on my list. It is just "to visit" - not its wines. Only from photos and a little reading, I too would have thought some of the others are more attractive from a visitor's point of view. The Alentejo scener...

Not having the money to buy VPs when I was young.

Andy, That post of yours sums up a lot more eloquently than myself what my wine consumption is all about. Except for an occasional beer towards the end of a hot afternoon when I am still working (I am part way through my second six pack this year, and two of those were consumed by visitors) I only c...

Perhaps if we continue posting long enough we might reach consensus. First you have to acknowledge that you drink a lot more than 1 to 2 bottles of Port a month. "I don't like to spit because I feel that Port was made to be consumed,..." is a quote from one of your posts. What does worry m...

Alan, why do you need to drink in order to enjoy? Can you not derive enjoyment from tasting several different Ports in one sitting instead of drinking 2-3 glasses of the same Port? Since it is the same amount of alcohol, wouldn't you get more enjoyment out of the variety? That said, on the Port Har...

Thank you, Roger.

Glenn, As I said, not a personal attack, although obviously you were included in those posters who drink very little Port. I know there are few from earlier threads. Tasting is not drinking, especially if you are going to taste 150+ in a week. Slightly different tack, but are you now going to tell m...