For The Love Of Port

While researching information for an upcoming article, I found this ditty ...

1952, Norwich, p. 125:

By Allen:

"Ingoldsby was under rather than over the mark when he laid down the rules:"

Though Port should have age,
Yet I don't think it sage
To entomb it, as some of your connoisseurs do,
Till it's losing its flavour, and body, and hue;
-- I question if keeping does it much good
After ten years in bottle and three in the wood.

I think that Warner Allen was right on the money with his ditty and I heartily applaud his sentiment.

I shall now make it my personal mission to open and drink all my bottles of port that are older than 13 years from the vintage and see if I agree with him.

Alex,

Brilliant, but please do wait until they're fourteen to kill them.