For The Love Of Port

95g/l residual sugar.

I have been thinking of purchasing, but I have my reservations considering that high of a sugar level (given the fact it is T)...

ABSL 1965 is to be added.

1934 M Faja is really great, 1914 excellent (maybe the 20 years evolution helped the 1914, just a point delta on my 100points scale). And yes, Oli has some casks, but the old wines were NOT sold/transferred back then, with some newer barrels handed to Oli; the latter is completely understandable, si...

Having a few Barros' Madeiras in my cellar, I confess to have tasted even fewer lately. I just wonder, since this is a closed operation, anyways (and Oliveiras didn't buy the old stock from ABSL), which are the ones you know and liked? For me the 1860 were good (M great and B very good), and the 191...

1942 H.M. Borges Sercial x1
1944 Justino's Sercial x1

1968 Niepoort Colheita x1
1980 Niepoort Colheita x1
1938 Niepoort Garrafeira x2
1963 Niepoort VP x1

I just hope that the families still have some stocks of those ancient Madeiras to pass on to the next generation! Glenn, I understand what you mean, but please keep in mind that those families are nowadays companies and the romantic "families" era is by far gone. And - they also want thei...

One more update on the Reservas, and this is something I stumbled over when re-reading Cossarts book. We were discussing earlier about the different Verdelhos that exist as ancient Reservas, those being - H&H Velho Verdelho "John Cossart Collection" - H&H R.R. Reserva with golden l...

Just wonder if anyone here knows what the "EC" resp. "HH" stands for; I have both, but to be honest, I still don't have a clue (nor proof).

Thanks

Andy

re: ABSL Port'Sant'

I recently talked with a friend and he (ABSL-lover) mentioned that, whereas ABSL from the 19th and beginning 20th century from Madeira are not to be discussed because of their inferior quality those coming from Porto Santo can "vary".

Just returned from Madeira. Prices for those recent releases were increased by almost 80% - that is eighty percent; I am perplexed. Does the market justify this? Well, let's see. I actually wanted to purchase the Ba1927 and the S1929, but as mentioned WANTED until I saw the new price list. Reservas ...

Hi Andy! In general I would have said that, due to different "profiles" which MWC aims at, those wines may be different. I remember that FAlbuquerque explained that (at least nowadays) they blend Cossart towards a different profile than Blandys. See here as an example: https://www.cossartg...

A stash of 1934 H&H Verdelho.

1875 Veiga Franca Boal - my oldest Veiga and second pre-1900 besides 1880 Sercial

Picture of garrafa would help, maybe.

For those interested there have been 3 new releases from my favourite producer: H&H Bast. 1927 H&H S 1928 H&H V 1932 https://henriquesehenriques.pt/en/bastardo-1927/ https://henriquesehenriques.pt/en/sercial-1928/ https://henriquesehenriques.pt/en/verdelho-1932/ I can't manage to find an...

1775 Fajã dos Padres Madeira Malvasia

luckily participated in auction bidding

...Only strange thing is... I share your thoughts, and surely enough I am sure that this is something that can't be solved anymore. I even tried to contact Hammer Corp. (feels like centuries ago) but they are out of trade. In 1998 they relocated from to Cleveland to Streetsborough (both Ohio) befor...

And I wanted to add that besides the Vintage remark on the HAMMER Corp. golden label, which we could (if one wants) doubt, there are AUTHENTIC and ORIGINAL H&H white labels (for the GOB as well as for the MALVAZIA) which state the Vintages from H&H's "point of view".