For The Love Of Port

Hello! I will be offering a tasting for some friends this weekend. They are regular table wine drinkers with very basic knowledge about wine (mostly mainstream grape varietal drinkers like merlot, cab) and less knowledgeable on dessert wines. I am planning to have a wine flight style tasting in this...

Moses, John & Tom, thanks a lot for your replies! I will experiment with your chocolate and non chocolate suggestions. I will be careful while paring the vintage and weaker ports. Tom, that's an interesting one about steak. I have never tried port with steak before as I have not seen that one as...

Thanks a lot Eric, Moses and Phil for your replying so quickly! I feel much better now, I did not know that about the labeling process. That explains why the label does not look like 36 year old label. I went to Portugal (Sintra) and the oldest porto I found from early 1800s had a pretty old label (...

Dear all - I have a Graham's Porto vintage 1980 I bought recently. This is the first porto I buy that is older than the Internet. After closer inspection at home, I found it has the Graham's website printed in the back label. How is this possible? How can I probe the authenticity of this vintage por...

Hello fortified lovers - I have been reading this forum for a while and have been learning a lot from all of you. This is my first post so here we go :) I am hosting a porto tasting this Friday, I will basically have a tasting of a ruby, a standard tawny, 20 year tawny and a 1980 vintage. I have not...