For The Love Of Port

This is going to be a poll question, but here are some of the parameters:


a. These are bottles which must come from your own cellar, regardless of who pulls the cork.

b. All styles and price ranges of Port count.

c. Use 2006 as a typical year when coming up with an answer. That will allow newbies to also respond.

As a newbie I have to claim 1-10 reminding me of the one VP and about 4-5 of White Twany, LBV etc. last year.
Hope to step up in the next Category this year
(I assume my cuppoard counts as a cellar - this building doesn't provide a real one)

Roy,

Can you please add a few higher options to the scale before Tom gets back from the far east so that he can post his vote

Derek

I reckon / estimate that I probably open 1 a week from my cellar - but some of those that I open only went into my cellar a week or two before they get opened!!

Alex

I've put all my wine in my friend's cellar (my apartment would ruin them!) so I only have access to it three or four times each year! Having my wine far away from where I live means that I actually get to keep a cellar and not drink it all!

bridgema wrote:I reckon / estimate that I probably open 1 a week from my cellar - but some of those that I open only went into my cellar a week or two before they get opened!!

Alex

Same for me, I gotta cut back..........NAH

Not quite 10 bottles for me last year. It would have been more but I like my port well and truly aged and most of my bottles are from 1983 or later. I drink them on occasion, but prefer to stick with single quintas and halves while waiting for at least 25 years from vintage to pass.

Plus, few of my winegeek buddies are into vintage port too much, and my wife and I can only drink so much....

It's about one per week for me in 2006. Like Alex, many only reside in the cellar for a short time before they "come upstairs" to visit.

Jay

Hey Bob. Next year should be a big year for your port drinking career. If my math is right then all those '83s suddenly reach drinking age!



I wish I had more '83s in my cellar. I love that vintage!

Alex

I've actually been a bit disappointed by the 83s I've had so far (Graham. Dow, Warre) and am hopeful that the magical 25 year threshhold will make a difference. If not, I'll let them sit to 30. I have read that the 85s should mature sooner than the 83s, and I don't think the 85s have peaked yet, but as always it's probably more a matte of taste.

Can you please add a few higher options to the scale before Tom gets back from the far east

Now then Derek...

As some of us take more than one evening to down a bottle, my intake is pretty much in the mainstream

(and as I've only got enough stock to last me until 2030, I have to take things gently.. )

Tom

You gents crack me up. This was a truly fun read!

So who voted in the 75-100 bottle range? I would have thought Tom, but that vote was there long before his post.

I assume you mean, who in addition to Derek voted 75-100 bottles?

The other Port Geek....ME

Andy,

I don't believe that you and I are the only people here who open more than 1.5 bottles of port per week

Derek

I agree....tI am sure there are others who open, on average, 1 bottle per week or more.

come on folks speak up and cast your vote

My vote was 11-25, because my annual tasting, held at my father's house, in 2006 was postponed because of paternal illness. So 2007 will have two such tastings, and hence exceed 50.

Someone is "exaggerating", because if you read my last post closely, you'll realize I was the other person to vote 75-100, shortly after launching the thread. 8)

But why quibble?

The best I can ascertain is that from tasting nearly 400 bottles of Port in 2006 (approx. 340 of which were VP ... over 225 enjoyed during 2+ weeks in Portugal) I only opened about 85 from my cellar in total, of which almost 70 were VP. This includes bottles I opened for formal tastings I organized in the US and Canada, as well as casual consumption with friends and my wife. The rest were generously opened by friends and associates at vertical tastings and other events I attended, but did not organize. At this rate, my liver will only last another 15 years. But it will make for a very sweet marinated chopped liver!

I'm definitely in the 11-25 category. It's more than one per month but not every fortnight. I also include the cooking Port; currently the Croft Platinum that I got cheap from Sainsbury's - one bottle left

I often wondered why you always carry that straw around in your shirt pocket KB. Now it is all begining to make sense.

Nice to see you again in these parts!