For The Love Of Port

There are Port & Douro wine tastings that will take place in the East Coast later in the year. Since you are inquiring about it, I'll try to get a summary of all the Portuguese Wine Tastings taking place this year in the USA and will then posted that info on this forum as well :ftlop2014: [chee...

Ficklin was my gateway drug to Port. My mentor offered my wife and I a pour of their tawny and later their vintage. From that point I became curious what this was all about Last bottle of their library tinta was a total fruit bomb. Not enjoyable at all. Too ascetic and rubbery. I'll give them the be...

With 10 minutes left of the fair and me being slightly inebriated after having tasted 23 different ports I made an impulse purchase after seeing a "day special offer" for Portal 2011 vintages at 22 USD a piece. I'd go for that totally sober. It was a great price. Perhaps I should have bou...

Sorry for the delay. I'll definitely provide the group results at the end of this week. It's finals week for me and I'm busy being a student.

Really great night at the 1985 Horizontal. Kudos to John for organizing and hosting the tasting. :NotWorthy: I will post notes soon. My top 3 were Dow, Fonseca, Kopke in that order. The Dow was very chameleon-like and had nice glass evolution all night long. Very complex and giving. Absolutely, Kur...

This link might help: http://www.thevintageportsite.com/view.php?id=14647

1985 Gould Campbell 5btl at 45.55 each 2003 Croft 2btl. at 51.41 each 1992 Fonseca 1 at 86.51 1991 Fonseca Guim 1 at 45.55 1994 Smith Woodhse 1 at 39.61 1994 Warre's 1 at 68.96 1997 Q. do Vesuvio 1 at 33.85 These are delivered prices with 2 day Fedex included. Very nice. With the impending doom of ...

1985 Gould Campbell 5btl at 45.55 each 2003 Croft 2btl. at 51.41 each 1992 Fonseca 1 at 86.51 1991 Fonseca Guim 1 at 45.55 1994 Smith Woodhse 1 at 39.61 1994 Warre's 1 at 68.96 1997 Q. do Vesuvio 1 at 33.85 These are delivered prices with 2 day Fedex included. Wow! Shipped prices? Excellent work

Thanks Julian! Wish I could make this tasting, but I can't miss this year of the Vancouver International Wine Festival, as FTLOP has a "lot" in their Gala auction. Have fun ... John will provide a great degree of expertise. :scholar: Yes, thank you, Roy! It's been fun working with Julian ...

Thanks, Roy! Just requested a copy from my local library.

John M. wrote:Opening anything for the Super Bowl? I have a 2009 Dows LBV I am likely to open (for the Virtual Tasting, too). If not, I'll get to it soon.

I opened the same bottle on Wednesday. Enjoying it for sure.

WOW! Excellent theme. Looking forward to your tasting notes.

Just bought a 2000 Smith Woodhouse colheita for what I thought was a good price at $38.99.

My age group, 18-34 year olds, are VERY finicky when it comes to spending money. We want prestige and power when buying items. It needs to be cool and sophisticated to spend $20+ on a bottle. It also helps that our peers are doing the same thing. One recommendation for the Port industry would be to ...

Jeremy: Yes and yes. Lots of us here have contacts in the Port trade. And although they only post on rare occasions, YES, the Port trade comes here to lurk and read the Forum. That being said, I think there is so much mis-information in that article. Although I am one of the oldest people using thi...

I'm noticing one fairly close non-stop flight from North America to Porto and that's from Toronto. Are there any non-stop flights to Porto that originate in USA?

Friday night is Allways a huge Portcelebration My beautiful daugther and lovely girlfriend....the two loves of my live, deserved something nice. Found a leeking bottle of 1935 Colheita from the house of Constantino's in my portfridge. And surprisingly a leeking bottle of Niepoorts 2005 VP. Opend bo...

1. I don't think flighting is necessary, per se. We should have rows that are somewhat equal so we can decide that night if we want to address in smaller groupings. But I don't have a pre-conceived grouping in mind. This is worthy of consideration. Some hosts like strict disciplined silence. Not me...

If you want me to make placemats for this event, just ask and it will be done. Thanks very much Julian. I'll take you up on that when we have the details finalized. Current draft of the placemats . http://www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160226_Chicago_1985s_g0.png http://www.jdawiseman.com/2016/20160226_...

I'll add my wife, Dagmara Schusler, to the tasting. She will bring a 1985 Royal Oporto.