For The Love Of Port

Sounds a good idea Derek. But first we have to test if we both like the same wines. Next time you're in town lets set up a tasting to check the accuracy of you taste buds

I'm starting to realize that my gums are being affected, rather unpleasantly. I don't think it is because of my hard toothbrush I have, but instead, because of the numerous wine tasting I participate in, not to mention the amount of alcohol I consume. Even if I spit, I find that after 30 minutes tas...

Our [beg.gif] is starting to give some fruits. Good job Andy! Temperatures are cooling off, specially overnight. Now we just have to wait for a little bit of rain until the end of the month. That would be excellent for the quality. Something that is puzzling me is the big disparity in terms of matur...

Good to see Dominique has already shared with you the bad news [cheers.gif] . The good news is that, after [beg.gif] for lower temperatures and rain, temperatures are starting to drop, specially overnight. When I arrived to the winery this morning at 8.45 temperature was 18º, which compares with a 2...

Andy, I had such a great time yesterday! The BBQ was the perfect excuse to open some beautiful wines. And we were lucky with the Grill man, he made a great job, the meat was delicious! I'm not sure if I want to fly back to Portugal today! Thank you for organizing this Andy! I'm sure everybody had a ...

Glad to hear you are looking after our good friend, Mr Quevedo :wink: Oh, and thanks for the wake-up call this morning. It was great to be heading off to work knowing that the two of you were having so much fun on the other side of the world [1974_eating_popcorn.gif] We're having so much fun that i...

Derek T. wrote:

oscarquevedo wrote:Common sense rules.

But not when it comes to the colour of the Port

You start using sunglasses and you will see that the color of the Port is not a problem anymore...

As Daniel says, there are no rules for the types of bottles we use for Port, even if we are talking about VP. Common sense rules.

Dear friends, the final result was not the one we all were expecting. Although all your effort, the winner for Best Winery Blog is http://www.beendoonsolong.com.

I'll keep sharing with you our life in the Douro and sometimes in other places

Thank you for the extra bullet proof vest, my mum would love to know!!!

I'm looking forward to see you there. In 24 hours I'll leave the Douro!

Anything you want me to take to LA?

From the producer perspective, we don't get many complains from the clients, and I suppose our TCA incidence index is on the average of other producers. People know that 3-5/100 bottles out there are corked and they use to deal well with the risk. And the more the consumer knows about wines, the bet...

No clue of what this is, but I would say it's not Port-related. Used in Madeira's wineries to heat up the wine?

Thank you all for your support, I'm very happy to see your reactions!! Now we will have to wait until June 25th! I'll keep you posted

If neither TFP nor SFE declares a vintage, for example, it's not generally declared no matter how many small producers make a vintage Port that year. You just can't have a generally declared vintage if none of Croft, Dow, Fonseca, Gould Campbell, Graham, Smith Woodhouse, Taylor, Vesuvio, or Warre a...

cheer up Espen Oslo, Alna Vinmonopol (6 på lager) Oslo, CC Vest Vinmonopol (4 på lager) Oslo, Majorstuen Vinmonopol (2 på lager) Oslo, Oslo City Vinmonopol (1 på lager) Oslo, Røa Vinmonopol (2 på lager) Oslo, Steen & Strøm Vinmonopol (3 på lager) Oslo, Tveita Vinmonopol (3 på lager) :winebath: ...

Right Marco! I was thinking in a kind of contest. Based on the proposed blends we receive, we would select one to age for some years. The winner blend would have the name of its creator in the label of the bottles.

Blending is fun and you can learn a lot doing it. As Dirk Niepoort said before, 2+2 can be much more than 4.

It seems that you too had nice experiences blending. This is giving me an idea. I'll share it with you latter, let me now develop it a bit more.

I've never seen it Moses.

One of the characteristics of the Douro is that the shippers, the big guys that make the high volumes in Port, own a tiny percentage of the land. Most of the grapes are grown by small and very small growers, which not in all cases have a long-term supplying agreement with the wineries. This means th...