A discussion on Tawny Ports "with an indication of age"

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Re: A discussion on Tawny Ports "with an indication of age"

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Peter,

Just for grins, IF you are still reading here ... how many bottles of the Nimrod are still in your possession at this point? [shrug.gif]

I did not get to see Peter this year in MI, as my wife's father died a couple of days before Christmas and we never got to hook up with Peter and it seems he has not been here :ftlop: in ages.
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Re: A discussion on Tawny Ports "with an indication of age"

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Roy Hersh wrote:We've bantered the merits of whether or not Tawny Ports "with an indication of age" actually improve or become less impressive with an older bottling (say a 20 year old XYZ Tawny Port that was put in bottle in 1999 vs one that was bottled in 2008). Budweiser calls this "born on dating" if I am not mistaken.
Hello Roy,

I couldn't find the topics related to the changes in Tawny Ports after the bottling date. Could you please post the links?

I am a bit curious about this because yesterday I bought a bottle of Ferreira Duque de Bragança and only at home I could see it was bottled in 2003. I think it was stored properly but I have no idea how it has evolved in the last 13 years.

Thanks and regards,

Rodrigo
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Re: A discussion on Tawny Ports "with an indication of age"

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rodrigo r wrote:
Roy Hersh wrote:We've bantered the merits of whether or not Tawny Ports "with an indication of age" actually improve or become less impressive with an older bottling (say a 20 year old XYZ Tawny Port that was put in bottle in 1999 vs one that was bottled in 2008). Budweiser calls this "born on dating" if I am not mistaken.
Hello Roy,

I couldn't find the topics related to the changes in Tawny Ports after the bottling date. Could you please post the links?

I am a bit curious about this because yesterday I bought a bottle of Ferreira Duque de Bragança and only at home I could see it was bottled in 2003. I think it was stored properly but I have no idea how it has evolved in the last 13 years.

Thanks and regards,

Rodrigo
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Re: A discussion on Tawny Ports "with an indication of age"

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rodrigo r wrote:I couldn't find the topics related to the changes in Tawny Ports after the bottling date. Could you please post the links?
This has come up a good number of times, probably more in conjunction with colheitas than TWIOA, but perhaps those too. I suspect a lot of the discussions were not in explicit threads, so some deep digging may be necessary.
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Re: A discussion on Tawny Ports "with an indication of age"

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Thanks for the inputs.

I actually found some 2011 topics discussing it.

Thanks again!
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