For The Love Of Port

Hi there, anyone knows how this particular vintage is progressing? is it aging comparatively quickly or will it need a good number of years more?

Thanks in advance!

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Tom

Thanks! and sure thing, i didnt notice it was the custom here. A nice thing about this forum ive noticed so far, from reading the posts, is that it seems to be more 'genuine' than most!

Cheers!

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I must appologize as I have only had 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003 Vesuvio VPs in the past six months and am not qualified to comment on the 1998.

I have a case of the '98, but it will remain untouched for at least a couple of years yet.

Vintage port (almost always referred to as VP here) has immense lasting power if properly stored, and even badly cellared bottles from 50 years ago can still offer fine drinking.

'98 was not a top year, but most of us here read that as 'good value for regular drinking'.

We have a friendly difference of opinion over when to drink VP...

Roy (founder of this site) preaches the virtues of older wines, but then waxes lyrical over VP that is less than three years old... Our biggest noise from Canada, Frederick, is merciless with his consumption of young wine, while most of us in the UK pitch mainly at the 20-40 year bracket, where we find excellent value in the market place.

Personally, I don't go overboard on the very tannic young wines, and drink little that is under 20 years old.

- But no two people have the same taste buds, so please share your views and preferences!

Tom

Vintage port (almost always referred to as VP here)

This may just wind up as my legacy. I "created" the acronym VP in 1995 when I first got "on Line" and have used it ever since. It seems to have caught on here, on the Ebob board, on Robin Garr's Wineloverspage.com where I host chats and have many articles published and the old AOL wine message boards back in the second half of the '90s. I never have seen it in anyone else's articles or books and until someone else proves otherwise ... it is my only claim to fame.

Ronald,

I haven't tried the 1998 Vesuvio yet. My list isn't as long as Roys with only 3 vintages having passed my lips.

But, if you're interested, keep an eye on this Forum as we are planning on organising a tasting of the complete vertical of Vesuvio wines sometime in October or November, when Roy next visits the UK.

Alex

I didn't taste it, unfortunately, but LadyRoots did. Her tasting note can be found here.