For The Love Of Port

NV Broadbent Madeira Verdelho 10 Year Old - Portugal, Madeira (11/9/2020) Much more sweetness than should exist in a well made Verdelho. The citrus is good as is the acidity. It's a good wine with spicy food due to the sweetness. It will also work with high fat dishes due to the sweetness and the a...

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 4:14 pm Don’t tell anyone about these. Our secret. Lol

Deal!

I somehow ended up with 6 different bottlers of the 1995 vintage. After having this one, I'm thinking it's time for a horizontal tasting.

1995 Warre Porto Vintage Quinta da Cavadinha - Portugal, Douro, Porto (10/16/2020) Double decanted four hours before service. No alcohol heat to speak of. Moderate sweetness with some dryness on the finish, somewhat like Dow. Great fruit on the palate. Very easy to drink. Great with chocolate. Thes...

1870 Müller Madeira Verdelho - Portugal, Madeira (3/14/2020) Opened 12 hours before service, then decanted about an hour ahead. The nose was a combination of acetone and maple. The color was a shiny medium brown with the great green rim so indicative of Madeira. On the palate, there's very high aci...

1863 Leacock Madeira Boal Vintage - Portugal, Madeira (5/26/2019) Bottled in 1978, number 593 of 2266. Decanted 24 hours in advance of serving. Beginning of the evening notes: The color is a walnut brown with a very small greenish ring on the rim. The nose is strong acetone with some nuts. The pala...

That's a fantastic story Roy. Thanks very much for sharing it.

I noticed this sentence:

Seattle was then and still is now, one of the highest Port consuming communities per capita, in America.

Would that still be true if you moved?

David Spriggs wrote:The cross posting of CellarTracker tasting notes to the FTLOP site is fixed! John, Thanks for letting me know that it wasn't working.

Thanks David!

David Spriggs wrote: PS. I'm glad that the CellarTracker cross-posting is working again!

It's not. I just did a copy and paste of the notes and the title after the cross-post failed. Andy, anything you guys can do about that?

1985 Fonseca Porto Vintage - Portugal, Douro, Porto (3/13/2019) Served after a five-hour decant and left exposed to air. It's ridiculous how amazingly young this 34-year-old port is. Opaque purple with a dark ruby rim. The first thing that came to mind when smelling and tasting the wine was black l...

Served at this week's IWFS Chicago dinner. Double decanted and resealed 24 hours before service. This is really an amazing wine. The color was hard to deduce in the light, but looked like a medium brick red. There was still some alcohol heat on it, enough to tell you you're drinking a port. The pala...

1990 Dow Porto Vintage Quinta do Bomfim - Portugal, Douro, Porto (6/16/2018) Bought on release and stored in excellent cellar condition. Double decanted five hours before service. Light red color. The palate shows lot of dates and red raspberries. There's still a touch of alcohol heat showing, but ...

1995 Caves São João Arinto Quinta do Poço do Lobo - Portugal, Beiras, Vinho Regional Beiras (6/3/2018) Soft cork that stuck to the bottle and broke. Needed to decant through a strainer. Always use a Durand or an Ah-So with this wine. Color of apple juice. Oxidative, but in a good way. Some flavor o...

1966 Dow Porto Vintage - Portugal, Douro, Porto (3/16/2018) These bottles had a 24-hour decant and was served at a recent IWFS Chicago. Medium brick red in color. The nose was fruity with raspberry and some cassis. There was still a bit of heat that I initially thought was from the alcohol, but qui...

Popped and poured by the host of a luncheon I attended yesterday. The bottle had a great fill, firmly into the neck. Initial impressions: Brownish red color. Alcohol heat was pretty strong. Held off at this point to give the wine some chance to come together. After 15 minutes of swirling: The heat h...

The 1980 GC is an outstanding wine. IMHO, it's the number 2 of the vintage behind the other-worldly Dow.

Do we know that this is just Tinta Negra Mole? I just had the wine this afternoon at a luncheon iand my feeling was that it was primarily Verdelho with some TNM blended in. My notes: Decanted six hours ahead of service. Searing acidity dominates with any residual sweetness masked. Walnuts with the d...

NV Churchill/Graham Porto Crusted - Portugal, Douro, Porto (12/31/2017) Opened to slow ox for 4 hours and then decanted 4 hours prior to service. This was a much better bottle than the first, which was a leaker. Light red in color. There was no alcohol heat to speak of. Medium sweetness, with flavo...

Awesome event, and one of the most fun venues I've ever been at to drink Port wine, but were we on the port side of the ship? We were in the center of the ship, towards the front, in the room called The Board Room. It's great for luncheons and wine tastings. Anytime you're looking to hold a tasting...

Thanks, John, for organizing a great event! It was a whirlwind trip for me - literally only 20 hours in Chicago, 2 of which were spent commuting - but worth the effort. The Columbia Yacht Club is a great venue - it's on a ship! Very attentive staff and the room was plenty large for our group. Unfor...

Roy Hersh wrote:John,

Next time we get together please just remind me to bring a bottle for us to drink!

Roy

Fabulous! I'll keep an eye out for offlines that are happening out your way.