For The Love Of Port

It does. Thank you.

Sorry for kicking off that rumour. Alex might like to find out why Amazon is claiming the book is unavailable. And in the meantime I am going to double-check anything Amazon tell me.

Julian D. A. Wiseman wrote:Having failed to find the telephone number of the aforementioned Blandy’s shop, instead I’ve found the Liddell book online, for €20, here.

Good spot. I see they also have a decent range of wine.

Many thanks again Peter. Give Edmundo my regards! He might remember my Norwegian wife as he took great pleasure in explaining to her how to barbeque bacalao, complete with actions using props found around the tasting room. He didn't say "about 60 years" to us - just "from the time of ...

The best thing to do is to look at the year of vintage and the year of bottling and ignore the rest on the label. That was exactly the conclusion I was coming to. Thank you for the confirmation that I was not missing something. I had already read the MWG page you referred to BTW (and many others th...

OK - I understand the definition of garrafeira, and how keeping 20 years in cask is a Good Thing, and how shippers would not do this if it were not a good wine to start with. But I note that none of the garrafeira wines (e.g. a 1959 vintage bottled this century) I bought use the term on the label. I...

Roy Hersh wrote:do you know if Liddell's book is also available in hard cover? I have only seen the soft covered book offered for sale.

Only paperback as far as I know. I see dealers on abebooks are offering it for around $100! Picked up mine from Blandy's for 19.20EUR :)

Thanks for the welcome!

There's an interesting appendix about the Napolean Madeira in Alex Liddell's book on Madeira, BTW. I'm tempted to offer to post a precis, but it really is quite densely packed text! Out of print now, but Blandy's have a small stock on the island, and I was lucky enough to be able to grab a copy last...