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://www.google.com/maps/place/Port+ ... 73.9823353
There is even a video out about this place: https://youtu.be/1uForsxE86U
I have the deepest respect for the person that decided to go with this name. This must be one of the biggest hardcore Port Wine fans ever... Well done, my unknown friend.
But then I also wouldn't be surprised if Andy V. and Eric I. know this place already and have visited it...
FTLOP community, I challenge you to show me a more remote place with regards to Port Wine...
Show me a more lonely Port Wine fan...
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Hah. Never heard of it. But appears not "real" Port but the South African type. Which can be very good as well. Perhaps if I ever get down there I'll try and stay and see how it is. Until then someone else will need to take up the torch and give it a go.
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port in paradise
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Andy - the one Christian mentions is in Tonga (not the one by the same name in South Africa). Apparently named after George II's favourite drink as he had a house down the road; but no mention of port being available if you stay there that I saw...
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I used his above link and that is what it pulled up.
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Would love to visit Tonga one day. I believe it to be one of the last absolute monarchies left.
I've mainly been in the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.
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Christian's Google map link took me to the place in Tonga, and contained this link:
portwineguesthouse.com
portwineguesthouse.com
Nice reviews on TripAdvisor, but I looked at all the photos and no one was drinking Port.The Port Wine Guest House (or in Tongan Pota Uaine Fale) is named after King George II’s favourite drink Port. The King’s old residence is situated only one block away from the guest house. The King’s land, called Veitatalo, is now vacant but the Government still looks after the land and cuts the grass.
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I wasn't having a go, I was asking - I couldn't see anything on the Tonga site about S.A. ports, so was asking whether I'd missed something or if you might have had the other place (which was the first I found while Google-ing).Andy Velebil wrote:I used his above link and that is what it pulled up.
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Over the course of a few years, I had the op-port-unity to drink port wine early and often throughout my time spent in So. Africa. There were many good bottlings of what they call vintage. I visited a few of the top producers whilst there, but was invited to several port and other dessert wine tastings while spending time there. I was there to blend five (white/red) table wines, two of which were going to be selected and sold at Trader Joe's. It was a ton of fun and quite lucrative while it all lasted.
I brought a 1924 KWV Tawny with me to So. Africa on my very first time visiting and opened it for the directors of the Pinotage Association. Anyway, the So. African ports were quite good and some even used true "imported" vine cuttings from Portugal. The best examples I had whilst there were the old single harvest tawny ports by KWV; reminded me of my first time trying Setubal Moscatels.
I brought a 1924 KWV Tawny with me to So. Africa on my very first time visiting and opened it for the directors of the Pinotage Association. Anyway, the So. African ports were quite good and some even used true "imported" vine cuttings from Portugal. The best examples I had whilst there were the old single harvest tawny ports by KWV; reminded me of my first time trying Setubal Moscatels.
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my aunt used to scuba dive all around the world and visited Tonga several times. when i was a kid she sent me a postcard with pictures of the king on it. if you go, make sure you bring back a traditional Tongan cannibal fork as a souvenier!
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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 that the local police will start to run my name through quite a few data-bases...Scheiny S wrote:make sure you bring back a traditional Tongan cannibal fork as a souvenier!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZmatKcS6UWould love to visit Tonga one day