For The Love Of Port

On Saturday June 18th was our paid tour of the Douro valley. Certainly out of our normal price range but our tour guide actually arranged a once in a lifetime tasting. I hope to type in more about this tour at length sometime next week :) Torvent is a small operation, with two tour guides, one of th...

Port Tasting Number 3. Kopke tastings. I went here to get a very old port, and succeeded. My wife and friends came with me, and we spent a lot of money. I want to buy more from them someday since everything we had was so good.... but then everything we had is out of my price range for normal living,...

Nice review. Ferreira is a very good place to visit so glad you enjoyed it. And may I add, you’re a tough scorer…I like it! Can’t wait to hear more… I obviously don't know the 2nd thing about scoring. So I made something up during this trip. Normally during one of my tastings each port is discussed...

Port Tasting Number 2. Quevedo: I hope to spend quite a few words explaining how awesome this port is, and what an amazing job Frédérick does. My expectations: I was not entirely sure what to expect with this visit to the Quevedo tasting room.   I knew I could taste good ports, get advise and knowle...

Port Tasting 1. Caves Ferreira: highly recommended. We are all fans now. I planned this tour so we could all see how port is aged in Villa Nova De Gaia, and have some basic ports to show us more economic, and standardized ports. It also seemed more interesting as it focused on Dona Antónia, and not ...

Hello everyone, My celebration trip to Portugal was wonderful. Thank you all for your advice, it certainly helped. I will start with an overview and if people have questions I will fill in some details. I also hope to add some port notes, and some reviews of the quintas and other places we visited. ...

Thanks so much everyone. We are customizing a tour of the Douro Valley, and I have no concept of how good a proposal this is. Many of the Douro Valley tours include a boat ride, and this one does not. Is that a loss? Anyone here want to review these locations (good views?) and port houses? - wine ta...

Just wanted to reiterate that you guys are awesome, and I have taken plenty of notes.

As an aside,
Due to Covid we are going to travel in June.

TYM :)

Thanks for the great ideas! I never would have found Evora on my own, but it looks really interesting.

Hello everyone, I am dragging my wife to Portugal in March 2022, to taste ports in honor of my 50th birthday. Ideally we can travel for 10 or 11 days. I have friends that meeting us wherever I tell them too, so that they can join us for the "port tastings" part of the vacation, ideally a t...

Hello everyone, I am dragging my wife to Portugal in March 2022, to taste ports in honor of my 50th birthday. Ideally we can travel for 10 or 11 days. I have two or three other friends that will be meeting us wherever I tell them too, so that they can join us for the "port tastings" part o...