For The Love Of Port

Roy Hersh wrote:A particularly stunning bottle of 1967 Vargellas was opened by a friend last night. Amazing beauty. I have seen a couple at this level before, but an equal number that were past prime, with fruit receding and menthol and spearmint replacing the fruit and aguardente poking through. Glad this one was as good as it gets!

It was served to a table of 7 invited wine guests, blind and the guessing game was put in place by the owner. My guess and that's all it was, based on color and flavor profile, was 1970 Taylor.

Do you remember who the bottler was and what year it was bottled? Sounds like a stunner!


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Cracked open a 77 smith woodhouse. over a week standing in cellar and around 6 hours in decanter. While decanting I noticed a HUGE amount of sediment to the point I was a little concerned (cork came out whole but was pretty beaten up although no signs of seepage under the cap/on the top of cork. The color was an awesome lively red and the nose was HEAVY medicinal while coming out of bottle and into decanter. First glass came right after decanting it was not closed but tight. Only that medicinal alcohol smell and dark fruits with a short finish. Wine was still chilly at 55 degrees however. 2nd glass was after wine decanted for 6 hours. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just an incredibly vibrant and youthful red color to this 40 year old gem. Very well balanced and had cherries and softer type fruits instead of the typical darker fruits I pick up out ports. Not sure if any of you have had real licorice (not the crap we have in America like twizzlers but old school chunks of licorice like you would find in Europe. The smith woodhouse reminded me so much of this I want to run to Manhattan to grab some licorice today. The finish was smooth and long and the fruits hung around for a while. Just a great showing of the 77 vintage and of smith woodhouse.
Glad I have a handful more of these resting comfortably. will not revisit for at least 5-8 years as I felt the wine showed somewhat young at 40 years.

David Co wrote:Cracked open a 77 smith woodhouse ...

I find the 1977 SW, and SW in general, to not be the most complex. But I still enjoy them immensely, and love the extraction and color of the 1977.

Noval Over 40 years.

S. Leonardo 40-yr old Tawny. This one was bottled in 2011. I have freshly bottled ones now, so time to start drinking the old supply!

1957 Kopke VP


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1994 Warres VP, in 375ml. This is just singing. I wish I had more 750s, and I may have to back off my idea of making the 375s daily drinkers. Or not.

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1964 Krohn Colheita Branco

I normally save these for birthday Ports, but as I was re-arranging my fridges the other day I realized that I have enough birthday Port to last me until I'm nearly 100 years old. I'm guessing that I probably won't need that many, and these are getting to the "drink up" point so what the heck... drink up!

Glenn E. wrote:1964 Krohn Colheita Branco

I normally save these for birthday Ports, but as I was re-arranging my fridges the other day I realized that I have enough birthday Port to last me until I'm nearly 100 years old. I'm guessing that I probably won't need that many, and these are getting to the "drink up" point so what the heck... drink up!

Argh, that one is high on my wishlist

1999 Dow's Quinta do Bomfim VP 37,5 cl, to try out my new small decanting caraf which I received today

Gerwin de Graaf wrote:1999 Dow's Quinta do Bomfim VP 37,5 cl, to try out my new small decanting caraf which I received today

Cool little decanter.

Our port group celebrated our 10th anniversary with a trip to Portugal last week. As you might imagine, a few bottles got opened. These included:
•Cockburn 1947
•Croft 1945
•Croft 1960
•Croft 1970
•Dow 1963
•Dow 1970
•Ferreira 1947 (magnum)
•Fonseca 1966
•Fonseca 1997 (2 bottles)
•Fonseca Guimaraens 1942
•Graham 1960 (2 bottles)
•Graham 1977 (magnum)
•Kopke 1937 (bottled 2017) (2 bottles)
•Martinez 1945
•Martinez 1970
•Niepoort 1987 (magnum)
•Quinta do Noval 1927 (magnum)
•Sandeman 1917 (2 bottles)
•Sandeman 1955
•Sandeman 1957 (2 bottles)
•Sandeman 1966
•Sandeman 1967
•Sandeman Vau 1997 (2 double magnums)
•Taylor Vargellas 1967 (2 bottles)
•Warre 1966 (2 bottles)
•Warre 2007 (2 bottles)

Nice, what was the best one? Noval 1927 and cockburn 45 must be awsome.

Al B. wrote:Our port group celebrated our 10th anniversary with a trip to Portugal last week. As you might imagine, a few bottles got opened. These included:
•Cockburn 1947
•Croft 1945
•Croft 1960
•Croft 1970
•Dow 1963
•Dow 1970
•Ferreira 1947 (magnum)
•Fonseca 1966
•Fonseca 1997 (2 bottles)
•Fonseca Guimaraens 1942
•Graham 1960 (2 bottles)
•Graham 1977 (magnum)
•Kopke 1937 (bottled 2017) (2 bottles)
•Martinez 1945
•Martinez 1970
•Niepoort 1987 (magnum)
•Quinta do Noval 1927 (magnum)
•Sandeman 1917 (2 bottles)
•Sandeman 1955
•Sandeman 1957 (2 bottles)
•Sandeman 1966
•Sandeman 1967
•Sandeman Vau 1997 (2 double magnums)
•Taylor Vargellas 1967 (2 bottles)
•Warre 1966 (2 bottles)
•Warre 2007 (2 bottles)

Ferreira Duque de Bragança 20 Year Old Tawny

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Quinta da Romaneira 10 YO Tawny, not so fantastic. Will not buy again.

2003 Kopke White Colheita

2003 Maynard's White Colheita
2004 Maynard's White Colheita
2007 Maynard's White Colheita

1997 Offley Boa Vista VP

Croft Rosé/Pink Port

Thomas V wrote:2003 Kopke White Colheita

2003 Maynard's White Colheita
2004 Maynard's White Colheita
2007 Maynard's White Colheita

1997 Offley Boa Vista VP

Croft Rosé/Pink Port

That last one, must be for cocktails, right?

Jasper A. wrote:

Thomas V wrote: Croft Rosé/Pink Port

That last one, must be for cocktails, right?

It wasn't a hit with the participants, so we ended up using it as shots for a drinking game later that night

Thomas V wrote:

Jasper A. wrote:

Thomas V wrote: Croft Rosé/Pink Port

That last one, must be for cocktails, right?

It wasn't a hit with the participants, so we ended up using it as shots for a drinking game later that night

Hahaha!!!

Andy Velebil wrote:

Thomas V wrote:

Thomas V wrote: Croft Rosé/Pink Port

It wasn't a hit with the participants, so we ended up using it as shots for a drinking game later that night

Hahaha!!!

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