What have you opened this week?

[Frederick Blais]

Last week with Moses(and his better half) and Luc in Montreal we had 1985 Fonseca, great of course and a very nice 1982 Kopke Colheita.

[Glenn E.]

1976 Krohn Colheita at the Canadian Festival of Chili and BBQ in Langley, B.C. I keep spoiling my BBQ peeps.

[Roy Hersh]

30 and 40 year old S. Leonardo, again.

[Gerwin de Graaf]

Kopke 1980 VP

[Moses Botbol]

2005 Kopke White Colheita. Was digging more than I thought I would.

[Edward J]

Happy Aloha Friday,

The Kona Costco has Smith Woodhouse 10 year old Tawny. Onoliscious.

[Gary Richardson]

2003 Taylor LBV. Down to my last few bottles, and still drinking very well. Smooth and silky, fruit (cherry) dominating. Nice medium finish. Will be sorry to see these go. I wish they were not bottled with a t-cork. I would love to hang onto one of these for another 10-15 years to see how they are. I may try it anyway ...

[Allan Engelsted Laurents]

Once again Ramos Pinto showes great potential.
And 1880-1930 Jubilee.

Not the longest aftertaste, But sweet, soft and smooth.

And look at the colour! Bright as appeljuice...

[Eric Ifune]

Krohn 20 year old.

[Bradley Bogdan]

2003 Warre LBV


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[Allan Engelsted Laurents]

To celebrate my upcomming hollidays, this weekend is going to be crazyyyyy.
Saturday: My Girl and me...+ 2 good friends: One bottle of the 1964 Vintage from DOW's (a Danish bottlng)
Sunday: My Girl and me...+ daugther and boyfriend: One bottle of the 1937 'Vintage' from Shepherd 's and on
Monday: My Girl and me...* daugther, best Buddy and son: One bottle of Niepoort VV and one bottle of the 1942 Vintage from Niepoort....
Tuesday: My Girl and me...2 glasses of water.

I will try to post tastningnotes along the way.
Cheers fra a happy danish dude

[Andy Velebil]

Odd bottle for the 1964 Dow's. What's the strip label over the top? Is it a Selo or a tax stamp or something else? Does it say where it was bottled at?

[Bradley Bogdan]

That's a heck of a lineup. Happy birthday! And yes, that portion at the bottom of the '64 is unique, any chance of a closeup?


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[Allan Engelsted Laurents]

The 1964 DOW's Vintage is now decanted....
Facts and funny:
1) Bottled and labeled in Denmark
2) In a champagne bottle
3) With a T-stopper
4) lots of crust
5) Big Nose, and round and deep taste (just after opening)

The picture of the wineglas is taken through the bottle. Just to show the green and brightness of the bottle
The pictures are in low resolution (ftlop-standard).

[Andy Velebil]

The 1964 DOW's Vintage is now decanted....
Facts and funny:
1) Bottled and labeled in Denmark
2) In a champagne bottle
3) With a T-stopper
4) lots of crust
5) Big Nose, and round and deep taste (just after opening)

The picture of the wineglas is taken through the bottle. Just to show the green and brightness of the bottle
The pictures are in low resolution (ftlop-standard).

Interesting indeed. Odd that a VP is using a t-cork and labeled with a label from an Oporto bottled VP. I've seen Dow's Colheita's bottled in a flared bottom bottle, never a VP. Do you know the story behind who bottled it, when, and why in that bottle?

[Andy Velebil]

Allan,
I found this while searching for an old thread on Dow's. This is Dan Carbon's reply to a question about a never-really-seen-before 1970 Dow's Bomfim. Dan used to work for the Sym's. It might be of interest to you and others....

http://www.fortheloveofport.com/ftlopfo ... fim#p49074

"The answer to Henrik’s question is very straight forward, right - we do not bottle the quinta wine in a declared year, so there are no years with both. Logically, that makes sense, but this is the Port trade and there are always exceptions, and this is one.

The Symingtons had a long-standing relationship their Danish importer, one dating back to Maurice Symington and passing on to James Symington, Rupert’s father. In a handful of years, they were given a very small allocation of the quinta wine, normally reserved for family only and not made in every year.

There are not heaps of records to be found, but it appears that this happened during a 10 or so year stretch starting in the late 60’s. It is more difficult than you might expect to determine exactly which years but as soon as I have that info I will post it here. This was a very special arrangement, and one that has long since stopped. It does, however, represent another of the many intriguing aspects of the world of Port."
DAN CARBON
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[Thomas V]

Last night with 5 friends. Dinner and port.

2011 Offley Boa Vista VT - 92 pts
1987 Martinez VT - 90 pts
1980 Quinta de Roeda SQVT - 84 pts
2011 Taylor's LBV - 88 pts
2012 Quinta do Pégo LBV - 89 pts

[Frederick Blais]

Warre's 1994, still full of fruit, tannins are soft, balanced, lovely.

[Bradley Bogdan]

Warre 1990 Quinta da Cavadinha.

I probably won't be able to cobble together a note from the group event but it showed very fruity and simply, but very well. Still in the buy stage for sub $40-50


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[Edward J]

In honor of the 4th, a 1976 Kopke Colheita. Happy Independence day indeed.