For The Love Of Port

20 year Feist, bottled in 2006

1985 Gould Campbell VP

Quinta da Brunheda "40 year old" Cask sample.

1997 Quinta do Noval "Silval" VP last Wednesday. Which I only consumed a partial bottle of intending to save the rest for the next day. Waking up the next day with a raging case of the flu meant it didn't get finished until last night.

As an experiment I tried a glass of regular table wine first...all metallic and not pleasant. Good wine just my palate was still shot from being sick. At least with the Port I could taste the bigger fruit in it.

1985 Kopke Colheita. At first it starts of leaner tasting than some of the other Kopke Colheita's I've been drinking recently.

Opening tonight this old TWAIOA.

One of the first Re-waxed bottles of mine-didnt turn out that great
Bottled in 1973. Hope it is still alive...

30 Year Old Krohn, yet again.

Roy Hersh wrote:30 Year Old Krohn, yet again.

I'm still kicking myself for not getting that when you first posted about it. Premier Cru lives on, if only in your cellar.

How many left?

Had a 1985 Ferreira VP yesterday afternoon. Was hoping to drink it after dinner, but was bored mid afternoon and started drinking early. Wow, this is much better than the last I tried this vintage like at least 5+ years ago. Elegant, very smooth with a lingering spicy finish. I think this vintage will evolve, at a slow pace for several more years. I don't see this vintage fading off any time soon, but was never a blockbuster of flavor even a decade ago. As the years of port drinking go by, the more I like Ferreira vintages... They do need some time. 90 points

Smoked a San Cristobal de La Habana Mercaderes along with the Ferreira to enjoy the casual afternoon.

Moses Botbol wrote:Had a 1985 Ferreira VP yesterday afternoon. Was hoping to drink it after dinner, but was bored mid afternoon and started drinking early. Wow, this is much better than the last I tried this vintage like at least 5+ years ago. Elegant, very smooth with a lingering spicy finish. I think this vintage will evolve, at a slow pace for several more years. I don't see this vintage fading off any time soon, but was never a blockbuster of flavor even a decade ago. As the years of port drinking go by, the more I like Ferreira vintages... They do need some time. 90 points

Smoked a San Cristobal de La Habana Mercaderes along with the Ferreira to enjoy the casual afternoon.

I do really like that wine. And what a picture!


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Moses Botbol wrote:Had a 1985 Ferreira VP yesterday afternoon. Was hoping to drink it after dinner, but was bored mid afternoon and started drinking early. Wow, this is much better than the last I tried this vintage like at least 5+ years ago. Elegant, very smooth with a lingering spicy finish. I think this vintage will evolve, at a slow pace for several more years. I don't see this vintage fading off any time soon, but was never a blockbuster of flavor even a decade ago. As the years of port drinking go by, the more I like Ferreira vintages... They do need some time. 90 points

Whooohuuu good thing I just ordered one. Now I look forward to tasting it even more.

Bradley Bogdan wrote:

Moses Botbol wrote:

Good picture quality from my girlfriend's new Samsung!

Thomas V wrote:Whooohuuu good thing I just ordered one. Now I look forward to tasting it even more.

Your thread got me interested in revisiting this vintage since I had a few onsite.

Catching up with a friend and his wife at Disneyland's Club 33 yesterday and had a fresh bottle of 1970 Graham's VP opened for us by the manager. A wonderful showing of it.

Andy Velebil wrote:Catching up with a friend and his wife at Disneyland's Club 33 yesterday and had a fresh bottle of 1970 Graham's VP opened for us by the manager. A wonderful showing of it.

Was Goofy or Pluto around to enjoy it with you

Moses Botbol wrote:

Andy Velebil wrote:Catching up with a friend and his wife at Disneyland's Club 33 yesterday and had a fresh bottle of 1970 Graham's VP opened for us by the manager. A wonderful showing of it.

Was Goofy or Pluto around to enjoy it with you

That might have been a better picture than yours, Moses.


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Andy Velebil wrote:Catching up with a friend and his wife at Disneyland's Club 33 yesterday and had a fresh bottle of 1970 Graham's VP opened for us by the manager. A wonderful showing of it.

Very nice, private club with around a 14 year waiting list. Also the only place to have a drink during park hours.

Moses Botbol wrote:Your thread got me interested in revisiting this vintage since I had a few onsite.

Great stuff. It is nice that we can poke each others interest and also inspire one another once in a while.

I do hope you post a taste note for the Ferriera if you have time. Would be fun to compare when I open the bottle I'm getting in a few days. I suspect it will not make it out of 2016 alive

Thomas V wrote:I do hope you post a taste note for the Ferriera if you have time. Would be fun to compare when I open the bottle I'm getting in a few days. I suspect it will not make it out of 2016 alive

I did not take notes on it... I am not big tasting notes taker; only if I am drinking in a proper port tasting. Before I had it this week, I was on the fence whether to recommend it (depending on price), but now I am confident it is a good port on the level of the best of the vintage; in Ferreira style. Comes down to more if you like Ferreira or not (which I am big fan of). They are a pretty consistent house and their SQVP's show better than most other's SQVP's (hint on looking for bargains).

Fonseca 1985 VP