For The Love Of Port

The 1863 Colheita they had in Cask was also purchased post founding, although in that case it was registered with the Port Institute.

The oddest port in my cellar isn't port in the true sense but rather the new world stuff they used to call port - from Australian, California, and South Africa dating back to the 70s and 80s.

When it come to real port I don't have anything odd but rather something that might not be around these days - a 1994 Duff Gordon VP made by the sherry company Osborne. I don't know if it's still being made. Does anybody know?

Mahmoud.

The oddest port that I have ever posessed was a bottle produced by the Tanzanian State Wine Company. This was a 33cl bottle in clear glass and sealed with a Crown Cork. The label was printed in water soluble ink and stated that the alcohol content was 20%. The level of residual sugar was not stated on the label but could be estimated through the clear glass of the bottle at about 0.5 of an inch. The alcohol content was clearly fairly high as the prefectly preserved moth could be seen floating about in the murky liquid.

I actually did have the courage to try this wine. It was a foul as you might imagine from the description above.

What's left in my collection is pretty mainstream. Perhaps the oddest thing is a bottle of Dow Christmas Port that I was given a couple of years ago. I'm slightly reluctant to open it as I imagine it to be mulled port, full of Christmas spices and can't think of anything worse - but perhaps it's just an ordinary ruby reserve with a fancy label, in which case I would happily open it and drink it or cook with it.

Al B. wrote:The oddest port that I have ever posessed was a bottle produced by the Tanzanian State Wine Company. This was a 33cl bottle in clear glass and sealed with a Crown Cork. The label was printed in water soluble ink and stated that the alcohol content was 20%. The level of residual sugar was not stated on the label but could be estimated through the clear glass of the bottle at about 0.5 of an inch. The alcohol content was clearly fairly high as the prefectly preserved moth could be seen floating about in the murky liquid.

I actually did have the courage to try this wine. It was a foul as you might imagine from the description above.
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Brave man you are

The oddest bottle of port comes with a exciting story, which atleast half of it I know is true.

This bottle was brought from Portugal to Denmark in 1985 by a Portuguese radio amateur, as a gift for a Danish radio amateur, the year 1946 as it was the birth year of the Dane.

The story is that he got the bottle from the vine institute in Porto, besides the humble label on the front, it also have a small round label in the bottom just stating "1946".

The wine is very bright as it can be seen just up against day light, some small amount of sediment at the bottom. As no vintages was declared in 1946 except for the few flukes found around, it could just be a regular port, but the very bright colour have me wondering.

madskaizer wrote:
The wine is very bright as it can be seen just up against day light, some small amount of sediment at the bottom. As no vintages was declared in 1946 except for the few flukes found around, it could just be a regular port, but the very bright colour have me wondering.

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Had a 1908 Dow with the same color that was the most awful metallic tasting port I have had. I still am not sure if it was actually port and my friend was able to get a refund from the auction house to offered it. I don't think it was port of something very wicked happened to it over the years.

I've had a 1946 VP and the color was still dark and appropriate for its age. This, I suspect (pure speculation) is probably a tawny of some sort.


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Andy Velebil wrote:I've had a 1946 VP and the color was still dark and appropriate for its age. This, I suspect (pure speculation) is probably a tawny of some sort.


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Given the very homemade appearance, perhaps an odd barrel or two of family tawny in the basement kind of thing?


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Bradley Bogdan wrote:

Andy Velebil wrote:I've had a 1946 VP and the color was still dark and appropriate for its age. This, I suspect (pure speculation) is probably a tawny of some sort.


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Given the very homemade appearance, perhaps an odd barrel or two of family tawny in the basement kind of thing?


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Very possible, there is a lot of that floating around the Douro. Though this would just pre-date the current regulations, so it could really be almost anything. But I'd bet it's more along the lines of a tawny.