For The Love Of Port

The IVDP has posted information about the sale of old Port stocks from the defunct CASA DO DOURO. Unfortunately you have to be a registered "Comerciante de Vinho Generoso (CVG)" or "Comerciantes de Vinho do Porto (CVP)" with the IVDP to be allowed to bid on the pipas. https://www...

6 years, Roy. Give me 6 years and I will be there... Hope to see you also there...

These beneficio numbers are still much lower than they were around the year 2000. As far as I know the IVDP doesn't really care too much about the prediction about the quality of the harvest for a specific year when they announce the beneficio numbers. Otherwise 2011 wouldn't have been the lowest nu...

make sure you bring back a traditional Tongan cannibal fork as a souvenier! Since my neighbors discovered my Port-Tongs they look at me already with different eyes and I'm sure they expect me to have a dungeon under my house. If I now hang a Tongan cannibal fork next to the Port-Tongs I'm convinced...

Hi Andy, as Glen mentioned, you are quite lucky with he birth-year of your nephew... there will be a lot of Port available from the Vintage 2016. I believe that there will be 50+ different 2016 Vintage Ports launched. These announcements happen normally in the late spring... and then in autumn the w...

I'm sorry... even if I feel not only older than Luke Skywalker but also older than Yoda (especially on Monday mornings) I couldn't resist and bought a few cases of the 2015 Vintage. The problem was Quinta da Roeda. That's how it all started. At GBP 65 per case of 6 bottles in bond I just couldn't re...

Hi Andy: Yup - it definitely is a love story... and I wouldn't think about watching it if it would have been filmed at any other location than Porto... It's a movie that women might understand better than we guys... However: it's filmed in Porto. I would watch a movie about irregular Latin verbs or ...

Haven't seen the movie yet - but saw the trailer and think that might be a very interesting movie... It seems to capture very well the mood of Porto... what better location for a love-story than a rainy Porto...?!?! Maybe this movie is a good opportunity for those forum-members that hide the truth a...

Having nothing better to do, I sometimes use Google Maps to look at cool things on this amazing planet. When I was looking at the most remote islands I saw suddenly the PORT WINE GUEST HOUSE. https://i1.wp.com/portwinecountry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Capture-Port-Wine-House.jpg?resize=768%2C39...

Not being American and having to work on July 4th in the office, my drinking plans circle around Colombian Coffee from the 2016 vintage. And maybe some still water.

Hi, yup - the text is from the FTLOP web=page...: http://www.fortheloveofport.com/faqs/ I know from one other port producer that might one day launch also a garrafeira port... At least I was sitting in his car and it was loaded with beautiful demijohns... :) As these babies take a long time to matur...

Picking up this old thread... TFP has now given some more details about the project. I love the drawing of how Gaia will look in the future (while the fact that some lodges have to get demolished are making of course my heart bleeding.. but I heard these are buildings that are anyhow nearly falling ...

Some very well connected individuals felt that there are other reasons that 2015 is now being tossed aside. Conspiracy theorists! Okay... it's time to come clean... It's my fault. My granddaughter Isabel was born in 2016. When the Port Trade found out they of course decided that all major brands sh...

Roy Hersh wrote:What categories of Port would you be willing to buy in screw cap?

None. Absolutely none.

Andy Velebil wrote:Sad about the water issue but happy for them at the same time. Thanks for the update.

+1

Dear Jorge: Thank you for spending the time with us here and answering our questions - very much appreciated. Porto and Gaia have seen a dramatic rise in tourism over the last 10 years. This must be very good news for your company, as your amazingly beautiful lodge is in the perfect location and I'm...

Hi Rune: That's what I have heard from somebody affiliated with SFE... but because it was a personal email I will not give the name away.
Hope to see you in Portugal in September!

In several blind tastings I was surprised how many points I gave to wines from GC. I drink normally wood-age ports - maybe that's why I like these wines, as they are often more approachable than the "big name" VPs, as they don't have such an overpowering tannin-structure. But as I understa...

Hello Eric and Roy - thanks for your input. I must confess that I have never even heard about the ALTIS BELEM - but what I saw about them on the internet looks really nice... AirBnB is of course also a great way to stay in Lisbon - I have done it myself a few times and will continue to do it. My luc...

Hi Friends, I know Porto better than my own children... but often I am asked "What is the best hotel in Lisbon?" - and then it's always so embarrassing to say "Oh, I don't know". In Porto I can give you within seconds a list of 10 great hotels and what makes them special... but I...