Poll: What is the longest you've ever gone without Port (in the past 5 years)?

[Roy Hersh]

This is a very serious question to ponder!

[Peter W. Meek]

I figured one of those answers was put there for me alone. It seemed a shame to waste it.

[Eric Menchen]

What time is it?

[Glenn E.]

I just realized that I answered incorrectly... the poll is asking for "in the past 5 years" and I didn't pay close enough attention. Luckily I was able to fix my answer.

I received my first ever bottle of Port in August of 2004 but didn't drink it immediately and didn't replace it immediately when it was gone. So even though I originally answered "believe it or not, a full week" my answer should have been (and has been changed to) "other" because if we're going back to January of 2005 I've almost certainly gone at least a month without Port early in that period and probably all summer in 2005. By winter 2005/2006 I was probably drinking a bottle a month, and then probably didn't have any Port again during the summer of 2006, but then probably continued at the one bottle per month rate fairly consistently until the start of 2008 when I signed up for FTLOP. The rest, as they say, is history.

These days I probably average around a bottle a week on my own, but since that's an average there are probably Port-free weeks that slip in here and there. I'm not counting tastings in that because they're irregular and would really skew the average.

[Eric Menchen]

Even though the question said past 5 years, I didn't consider my BPE - Before Port Era.

[Derek T.]

I've voted for "an entire week" on the basis that I tend not to drink much port on most nights in the summer, apart from tastings and the odd summer evening when I light the fire on the patio and sit out late when it's cool. Or when I just feel like having a glass of Port. Or on Saturdays when I haven't got work in the morning. Or on weeknights when I remembered to put a nice tawny of LBV in the fridge. Or when I fancy a Portonic.

Can I change my vote, please?

[Marc J.]

Great poll!!! I voted for an entire month - how is that possible? A few years ago I took a trip to some islands in the Southern Indian Ocean and during the course of the entire trip I didn't have a single drop of Port. I looked....I just didn't find any, hence my geography dictated month-long Port dry spell.

Marc

[Roy Hersh]

And you stayed?

[Andy Velebil]

I'm trying to replicate the feat of consuming a "pipe" in a single year and never miss a day.

Ok Ok, so not really but I'd be a happy camper if that was the case. Since I still race bicycles my Port consumption gets notched back certain times of the year when I need to get my fat ar*e into shape and keep it in shape. So there are times that I'll go a week or more without Port. But rarely is it more than about 10-14 days and then only periodically.

Please, no need to worry about me not getting enough since I more than make up for it on the trips to Portugal each year


That reminds me, I need to add up how many bottles of Port I tasted last year.....then again maybe I don't

[Roy Hersh]

58 views of this and only 11 votes

One more time so I can feel better.

[Peter W. Meek]

I ran out of Nimrod more than once. Should I vote multiple times?

[Roy Hersh]

I remember this three day weekend back in 1999 after I had just broken my wrist falling down a flight of stairs ...

[Glenn E.]

I remember this three day weekend back in 1999 after I had just broken my wrist falling down a flight of stairs ...

Hmm... Roy's wine cellar is in his basement... coincidence?

[Al B.]

I sometimes travel to places where they don't have Port and try to survive on the local fortified wine. I managed OK in Greece (drank Mavrodaphne) and in Spain (Sherry and Malaga) and in Italy there's no shortage of choices.

So sometimes I've even gone 2 weeks without Port.