For The Love Of Port

DR 40 Year Old Tawny Port, 2018 bottling

Opened for a business dinner. It was pretty spectacular!

1966 Fonseca VP

Marc J. wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 9:18 pm 1966 Fonseca VP

That's a great Port!

NV S. Leonardo 10 Year Old White Port

Love these. They're a tiny bit bolder than Lamelas or DR.

Glenn E. wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:00 am NV S. Leonardo 10 Year Old White Port

Love these. They're a tiny bit bolder than Lamelas or DR.

I love the fact we’re all different. I prefer the Lamelas 10YO White because it’s slightly sweeter than the Mourão and a little more dried mango fruit. I was brought up on dried mango as a snack so just adore anything like that.

Al B. wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:09 pm

Glenn E. wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:00 am NV S. Leonardo 10 Year Old White Port

Love these. They're a tiny bit bolder than Lamelas or DR.

I love the fact we’re all different. I prefer the Lamelas 10YO White because it’s slightly sweeter than the Mourão and a little more dried mango fruit. I was brought up on dried mango as a snack so just adore anything like that.

I'm honestly not sure which of the three is my favorite - I love them all - but I agree with your description. In addition to the Lamelas showing more mango, I think that the DR has a little more light caramel to it than the other two and probably sits between them on the sweetness scale.

Pocas 30 year-old tawny. These are so good and relatively inexpensive compared to other 30 year-old tawnies. They real sing after a day in the decanter.

1997 Vesuvio VP. Decent; nothing too special. I wish the Vesuvio's lived up their packaging. A decent port in superlative packaging.

Moses Botbol wrote:1997 Vesuvio VP. Decent; nothing too special. I wish the Vesuvio's lived up their packaging. A decent port in superlative packaging.

Huh? They come in cool 6 pack wood “foot lockers”.

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 5:57 pm

Moses Botbol wrote:1997 Vesuvio VP. Decent; nothing too special. I wish the Vesuvio's lived up their packaging. A decent port in superlative packaging.

Huh? They come in cool 6 pack wood “foot lockers”.

Exactly, they come in cool packaging, but the port itself is middle of the road.

Moses Botbol wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:51 am Exactly, they come in cool packaging, but the port itself is middle of the road.

I have loved the 1997. Others have raved about the 1998, but that one I've found to be middle of the road. To each his own I guess.

Haven't tried many, but I found 1994 to be a good one.

Moses Botbol wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:51 am

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 5:57 pm

Moses Botbol wrote:1997 Vesuvio VP. Decent; nothing too special. I wish the Vesuvio's lived up their packaging. A decent port in superlative packaging.

Huh? They come in cool 6 pack wood “foot lockers”.

Exactly, they come in cool packaging, but the port itself is middle of the road.

Eric Menchen wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:05 am

Moses Botbol wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:51 am Exactly, they come in cool packaging, but the port itself is middle of the road.

I have loved the 1997. Others have raved about the 1998, but that one I've found to be middle of the road. To each his own I guess.

Actually, it was '98 that I recently had. They all look the same lol. Maybe the Vesuvio profile has fallen out of favor with me a little?

Look if it comes in a cool package it has to be great all the time. Come man, get with it.

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:38 pm Look if it comes in a cool package it has to be great all the time. Come man, get with it.

In Moses' defense, the '98 was my least favorite of '94 through '98 that we tasted at Stewart's in October of 2020.

Not sure 93 points counts as "middle of the road" though...

2011 is also great.

1998 Cockburn’s Quinta Dos Canais VP. Only two bottles left out of 2 dozen. It’s been a lovely house VP.

Brunheda 40 year old from a couple of years ago.

Fonseca Crusted, bottled in 2001. A bottle I bought from a local wine store in 2007 and which had been sitting in my cellar ever since. It was well worth the wait. Medium bodied but so round and smooth, generous fruit but the complexity Vintage Port develops with a little age.