For The Love Of Port

I get it at a local grocery store along with 5-6 other "Serra" cheeses from Portugal. They only sell the whole wheel which is around $30 I think. I'll buy some of the others instead that are little harder and smaller. Haven't had a reason to buy the whole wheel in years. Moses, does your ...

Years ago Roy turned us on to this cheese, which is greatly loved by some Port aficionados. However, the first time it came into the United States it wasn't the genuine DOP item, and I haven't seen it since. I have email information that there is more in the United States at a retailer familiar to m...

2/10/2018 rated 91 points: 2012 Louis Latour Corton-Clos du Roi (France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Corton Grand Cru),for dinner 2/28/2018, with the Edminsters hopefully after a few days in Coravin, Riedel Burgundy. 14 pabv $79/750 ml, FOB WineBid; Louis Latour; San Raphael, CA. Broadly sheety with v...

Yes, Patrick Grubb did have this wine and was excited by it. I'm interested because it's a Malvasia candida (is that correct) nearly extinct original strain of Malvasia nearly put out of business by the phyllox/oidium one-two punch and I've never before tasted a wine made with this. This grower's wi...

12 bottles available in Germany @ Euros 800 (2 bottles listed in CellarTracker ownership, other bottles offered for sale in Europe at about $1161/750 ml.) There are no bottles listed in FTLOP under this producer at all--looks like a private family bottling by a Villa Lobos vineyard owner. Does anyon...

2009 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel AP #9 ; Spectrum Wine Auctions, $49/750 ml; arrived in Piqua 11/9/2017; Premier Cru,7.5 pabv. Coravin/Les Impitoyables-le Taster . Warm straw. On the balanced cusp of peach and diesel and clover honey. Jackie thinks it's very...

Now there's a topic, Ron and Roy. 'Friendly Wine Bottles I Regularly Visit!' It's certainly something I do. Find a retailer with a 'treasure room', and, when I'm there, get the key and look at the bottles I've admired over time, and even, if I get a little flush, buy something. Hey, the provenance i...

John, If you'll be down in the Southern California area let me know. Would love to finally meet in person and I'll bring some things along to share. Do let me know as you sort your schedule. What an honor, Andy. I have my hopes up! We'll need someone adept with a corkscrew, or as the French say 'Ti...

I have never tried doing one of these Virtual Tastings, but if any of these fit into a theme, you might like to choose it for the next one. I mostly have classic British house Vintage and Late Bottled Vintage. The Quinta do Noval Vintage Porto fro 2003 is probably there too awaiting shelving. Wine, ...

i think it's a neat idea. and i think you're very graceful. i don't have a cellar but if you pass through Pittsburgh, PA, maybe we could get lunch. congrats on your upcoming wedding! It'd be fun to tell some wine stories! Piqua is just north of Dayton and north of Cincinnati, if you're going to be ...

5/15/2017 rated 93 points: 2008 (from bottle previously Coravined, in Impitoyable}: 2/20/2017. Medium yellowish-amber. Reluctant tearing and sheeting but quite limpid. Redcurrant, linden leaf, and muskmelon quite prominent, over a neutral florality. Crisp acids and white tannins are followed by cumq...

This is not a time to get down on a particular retailer, but I have had troubling exchanges with this one of late, treating a serious complaint as if it were made by a newbie who didn't know what he was talking about (poor packaging allowing rapid acceleration and deceleration during handling by shi...

I understand that the issues are both Federal Constitutional and state, as the Constitutional Amendment repealing Prohibition gave a specific power to the States. Powers granted to the States are in the Federal Constitution, including Amendments, are any powers not reserved to the Federal Government...

Warning, Will Robinson. THREAD DRIFT! We've got to get organized for the continuing legal battle ahead. The last several years are just the beginning. Can we get retailers who have not yet been put out off business to collect a small voluntary legal fee for Free the Grapes (still very much alive, I ...

11-15-2017, 10:32 PM 11/3/2017 rated 92 points: 11/3/2017 rated 93 points: 11/3/2017 rated 92 points: 2012 Domaine des Croix Corton-Grèves (France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Corton Grand Cru); bouteille no. 1708, 13 pabv. Imported by Favorite Brands, LLC, Becky Wasserman and Co. Served with the last...

Sadly, K and L will not ship to Ohio after the last auction lots I got from them two weeks ago. I saw the offers but was not allowed to bid. Is there any way to make any of these wines available direct? You may direct message me if so!

John Trombley

This reminds me of the very few times I've opened up a double magnum or bigger bottle at some kind of do and noticing that there were nearly fistfights over the empty. Strangely it seems it's always been the ladies who wanted it for some kind of decorating purpose.

There might be a value to the sommelier attracting attention of such as you, who would think most of the top end wines on the list were affordable after the conversation you had. It may, in other words, be a simple display piece.

Delaforce Vintage Port 1988 Half-Bottle (1) $25 Fonseca Vintage Port 1985 1lbsl Bottle (1) (61)--a Roy H Favorite, I hear Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port 1994 Half-Bottle (1) $65 Quinta da Romaneira Vintage(?--probably a colheira) $50 were the items in this auction lot, at about $135. My estimate of th...