For The Love Of Port

Al B. wrote:Opened a bottle of Ferreira 1960 as my Sunday night port this week. It's rather good and might not last long into the week!

Had one recently. Was very good indeed.


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I was going to open a bottle of chilled Colheita tonight (it's still quite hot here in Los Angeles). However at 3am work had other ideas when got called in. 14 hours later I made it home and am having a well deserved very cold triple bock before an early bed call. Oh well hopefully later this week I can remedy the lack of Port issue I'm having.


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1970 Fonseca-just a great bottle of wine.

1977 Taylors

Kopke 40 yo Tawny (bottled 1980). My last bottle of this . Luckily enough all bottles (9 in total) have shown from very good to excellent imo

Dropped a bottle when adjusting my rack in my cooler and broke open a 1977 Warre's. Was able to decant 500ml+ . That's a huge Angels share.

me and one of my best friends planned to open a bottle our age for our 30th birthday so today is the day. (it's about halfway between our birthdays :p )
i just opened and decanted a 1985 Cockburn VP.
it's the first time i open an older VP myself.
the cork came out mostly in one piece. good smell. the color was lighter than i expected. looking forward to tasting it after our BBQ tonight!

Bert VD wrote:Looking forward to tasting it after our BBQ tonight!

Just don't use the 85' as marinade for the ribs by mistake I hope you enjoy it and post a TN afterwards.

Thomas V wrote:

Bert VD wrote:Looking forward to tasting it after our BBQ tonight!

Just don't use the 85' as marinade for the ribs by mistake I hope you enjoy it and post a TN afterwards.

haha no chance for that. we were the only 2 people there who drink any alcohol at all and we were looking forward to this bottle

i'm not sure about a TN. i don't have so much experience writing about taste. on sunday evening it had quite a strong alcohol taste and it was good but not great. we finished the bottle 2 days later and the taste was much nicer. softer but also more rich and with a longer aftertaste. very nice.

the color was a bit like a tawny. a brownish red. i expected it to be much darker but maybe the glass of the bottle (which was almost black and impossible to see trough) got me fooled.

Bert VD wrote:

Thomas V wrote:

Bert VD wrote:Looking forward to tasting it after our BBQ tonight!

Just don't use the 85' as marinade for the ribs by mistake I hope you enjoy it and post a TN afterwards.

haha no chance for that. we were the only 2 people there who drink any alcohol at all and we were looking forward to this bottle

i'm not sure about a TN. i don't have so much experience writing about taste. on sunday evening it had quite a strong alcohol taste and it was good but not great. we finished the bottle 2 days later and the taste was much nicer. softer but also more rich and with a longer aftertaste. very nice.

the color was a bit like a tawny. a brownish red. i expected it to be much darker but maybe the glass of the bottle (which was almost black and impossible to see trough) got me fooled.

You just wrote a nice tasting note. Go ahead and post it in the TN forum, we'd all appreciate it!

1985 Smith Woodhouse VP. Not the best bottle of this I've had, but not the worst either. It had a little bottle stink at first, but that blew off.

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1991 Smith Woodhouse - it had lots of bottle stink and wasn't great

1978 Kopke Colheita - A lovely Port!

Portal 20 year old.

1992 Quinta do Passadouro VP.
Lovely, finished off over the course of 3 days. Best on days two and three, which would suggest a long decanting time will work (ps I decanted it at 3 PM and drank the first glass at about 10 PM).

Well I didn't actually open it myself. But I bought a glass of 2003 Krohn Colheita at this lovely little wine bar in Aarhus, which is owned by a sommelier.

Despite its young age this is a great port that I will definitely buy a few bottles of over the years so I can follow the development.

Thomas, is that Peter's place?

Roy Hersh wrote:Thomas, is that Peter's place?

It isn't cause the name of the the sommelier is Sabina It is the woman on the left. http://www.svinbar.dk/billeder/jv5mcc7s ... j9paezi61p

It is located in Klostergade in the city center and has around 300 wine items on the menu of which nearly 80 % is available by the glass. (Which is awesome when you want to try out new stuff)

I will be happy to take you there next time you visit Denmark.

You got me intrigued. Who is this Peter you are referring to? He lives in Aarhus and has a wine bar?

Yes, Mr. Skov is from the same town. He is a board member of the Vintage Port Club too.

Roy Hersh wrote:Yes, Mr. Skov is from the same town. He is a board member of the Vintage Port Club too.

Interesting. I have not had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Skov yet, but I have seen him post on a Danish Port Facebook group where you yourself recently made a post Also I was unaware that he had a shop / wine bar in Aarhus which I do not know the location of.

Also I do not now the of the Vintage club, which could just me being somewhat green in this field.