For The Love Of Port

We held the tasting last night and it went very well. One of our bottles of the 48 was corked, but the other one was stunning, my favorite of the evening. The 63 seemed to show more of its spirit than the others, and felt a bit too heavy on alcohol. The 70 and 77 were lovely and were very similar to...

Thanks everyone for the helpful replies. [cheers.gif] For our wine tastings with dry red wines, my standard practice is to double decant at home so the sediment does not get stirred up on the way to the restaurant (and to save time when pouring at the restaurant). Should this work okay for Port as w...

Glenn E. wrote: Questions like yours are fairly common - in fact I made this thread in November just to show some examples of perfectly normal variation in bottling and labeling.

Thanks for the link, Glenn. I really enjoyed reading through the information there.

Thanks for the detailed response. I really appreciate it!

Hi everyone. This is my first post. First a bit of background. I am the program chair for our local wine tasting group for this year, and I have included a Taylor Vintage Port vertical tasting in our program this year. Port is not a category I drink very often, but I wanted to include this tasting f...