Guidance for a Gift
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 9:58 am
Hi,
I am so glad to have found your site... and that you have a category for "no dumb questions."
My wedding anniversary is next week and I would like to buy my husband a bottle of 20-year tawny port as a gift. However, except for the holiday glass of Bailey's, I don't drink. So, I'm pretty overwhelmed when I am confronted by the many bottles and recommendation cards on the shelves of our local discount liquor store.
Here are my questions. I would be truly grateful for recommendations and insights:
1. Since only one person will be drinking this bottle of port, is it possible to buy a type that can be opened and enjoyed over time? And if so, how long would the opened bottle be of drinkable quality and should it be refrigerated?
2. Is it possible to buy a good 20-year port in the $25.00 - $30.00 range, or would I be better off buying a 10-year?
3. In the past year we have bought two bottles of what we thought were tawny port, one called DelaForce Porto His Eminence's Choice 10-year and the other labeled R.L. Buller and Sons Victoria Tawny. His Eminence's was a big hit, the Buller, not so much... other than now knowing that real Port only comes from Portugal and has the word "port" or "porto" on the label (boy, do I feel silly thinking that if it said "tawny" and was on the shelf labeled "port and recommended by the clerk...), is there a way to figure out what other brands of genuine port he might enjoy based on knowing he liked His Eminence's?
Many thanks for your advice and suggestions!
LIli
I am so glad to have found your site... and that you have a category for "no dumb questions."
My wedding anniversary is next week and I would like to buy my husband a bottle of 20-year tawny port as a gift. However, except for the holiday glass of Bailey's, I don't drink. So, I'm pretty overwhelmed when I am confronted by the many bottles and recommendation cards on the shelves of our local discount liquor store.
Here are my questions. I would be truly grateful for recommendations and insights:
1. Since only one person will be drinking this bottle of port, is it possible to buy a type that can be opened and enjoyed over time? And if so, how long would the opened bottle be of drinkable quality and should it be refrigerated?
2. Is it possible to buy a good 20-year port in the $25.00 - $30.00 range, or would I be better off buying a 10-year?
3. In the past year we have bought two bottles of what we thought were tawny port, one called DelaForce Porto His Eminence's Choice 10-year and the other labeled R.L. Buller and Sons Victoria Tawny. His Eminence's was a big hit, the Buller, not so much... other than now knowing that real Port only comes from Portugal and has the word "port" or "porto" on the label (boy, do I feel silly thinking that if it said "tawny" and was on the shelf labeled "port and recommended by the clerk...), is there a way to figure out what other brands of genuine port he might enjoy based on knowing he liked His Eminence's?
Many thanks for your advice and suggestions!
LIli