For The Love Of Port

Roy Hersh wrote:Is the Portal restaurant still open nowadays?

Sadly Portal closed about a year ago.

John Trombley wrote:yeahhhh, and how do you pronounce 'Colheita'? Like Coal Heater?

I say call yay ta.

I think 1980 as a vintage in general sits as a bit of an outlier in terms of port aging/development, when viewed against the decade before and after. Many ports I have tasted from 1980 including Dow, Graham, Warre, Gould Campbell, Taylor to name a few, are much darker in colour and show much younger...

1998 Fonseca Panascal

Bradley Bogdan wrote:We'll have to taste test and see if it's any good!

I had a taste at the Big Fortified Tasting in London at the start of May. Wonderfully clear, and very delicate and elegant. I suppose it will attract interest from completists looking to fill out their Cockburn verticals.

I really didn't resize the photo well! Here's another of the label. Bottled by G T Jones & Co Ltd Oxford.

Looks fine to me. Just like the bottle we had at a TPF tasting on Wednesday night (see below). We had a "Sweet-spot vintages" tasting, where we tasted 66, 70 and 77 for each of Dow, Graham, Warre and Taylor. The Taylor 70 was our WOTN.

There are eight bottles coming up at Christies in London: http://www.christies.com/salelanding/index.aspx?intSaleID=25201 Lots 636/7/8. Auction house estimates suggest about $2,500 per bottle... One lot of 2 bottles went for £3,290, another for 3 bottles went at $4,395. The final lot of 3 didn't se...

There are eight bottles coming up at Christies in London:
http://www.christies.com/salelanding/in ... leID=25201

Lots 636/7/8. Auction house estimates suggest about $2,500 per bottle...

Tom Archer wrote:It's hard to guess how many people who buy these will subsequently realise just how much over the odds they paid, but I can't help feeling that those who do are not going to be very good ambassadors for Graham's, vintage port in general, or indeed the merchant who sold them the bond..

For sure.

This is a no-lose proposition for SFE. If nobody buys them, they have lost little - perhaps a tiny fraction of a marketing budget. On the upside, there are a fair few people who know nothing and just want a nice present to gift to someone. I can see various outcomes down the line: people getting cal...

Nice to hear this tasted OK, just had a case of 6 delivered.

Glenn E. wrote:...also has the side effect of allowing us to provide you with that handy "My Tasting Notes" link so you can look back through your own history if you want to.

Ah, that is an angle I wasn't aware of. Very handy.

Since this was the same bottle as the note posted by Glenn, should the notes not be combined into the same thread? The same is true for all the other notes people have posted as different threads for the same bottle? No, as this way they appear as different TN's in the searchable Database. Is that ...

For me it would be
Fonseca
Croft
Graham

Opened a Feuerheerd 1985 on Friday night. Unexpectedly, very nice indeed!

While European friends are not loving this ... I am enjoying watching the "affordability" factor increasing for those of us here on the other side of the pond. It's really only the Euro-using European friends who might not like this. Those of us in the UK are also seeing affordability fac...