For The Love Of Port

2011 Capela da Quinta do Vesuvio for Port Club last night. It's an interesting super premium Port, in that it doesn't feel like it's meant to be better than the regular Vesuvio, just different. I thought the regular Vesuvio was fruitier and bolder, but that the Capela had better structure. I think ...

2011 Capela da Quinta do Vesuvio for Port Club last night. It's an interesting super premium Port, in that it doesn't feel like it's meant to be better than the regular Vesuvio, just different. I thought the regular Vesuvio was fruitier and bolder, but that the Capela had better structure. I think t...

I'd have already been on the list if I weren't going to be in South Africa at that time.

Is this labeled as a Colheita? Seems like they'd have bottled it as a Frasqueira since it has been in wood long enough. Although if it was bottled in June of 2024, it hasn't (yet) spent the requisite year in bottle before being sold. It was labelled as a colheita, not as frasqueira. I agree that it...

Hmm... hard to say, really. I've never really drunk that much LBV. That said, I guess I'd have to say "less". There was a period starting maybe 10 years ago when I tried to explore LBV a little more than I had been, so that increased my consumption. I ended up buying some really good ones ...

For Port Club this month, I opened:

S. Leonardo Very Old White (bottled 2019, aka their 50 Year Old White)
S. Leonardo 50 Year Old Tawny Port (bottled 2022)

Both were pretty spectacular.

There were multiple bottlings of the original Carnation bottle. Those were interspersed with non-Carnation bottlings of the same 1974 Colheita. Now that they have the new Carnation paper label, they've stopped selling the non-Carnation bottlings but still bottle and use them for tastings. (We had a ...

1955 Kopke Colheita 375ml, bottled 2015 Another bottle from the recently rediscovered case of halves. This one is also in great shape, so I'm thinking that the time in bottle hasn't hurt this mixed case. Note that these have also only been stored at room temperature for ~10 years, not in a cellar. T...

A bottle of Justino’s Tinta Negra 1999 Colheita, bottled June 2024. It’s OK, but as hard as I try, I can’t love Tinta Negra. Is this labeled as a Colheita? Seems like they'd have bottled it as a Frasqueira since it has been in wood long enough. Although if it was bottled in June of 2024, it hasn't ...

That looks like a great haul, indeed. I do love DR and Brunheda. Just a quick question: on my first PHT2 in 2021 we also visited Brunheda, where I a.o. bought two bottles of their very old tawny Cask 51. It is clearly a T :lol:, but where would you place it age wise? According to my notes from that...

LOL... 49-50.

Not Taylor Fladgate. (Those are both old Krohn stocks.) But they're owned by Taylor now, so this can be forgiven.

But also... not Vintage Port.

I expect better from Acker.

Yeah, time to crack those babies for sure. Can’t believe you still have them from back then. I "lost" the box or I'm sure I'd have drunk them long ago! The 20YO White is still in fine shape, so I'm optimistic about the others as well. Plus they're all Kopke, and I've found that Kopke can ...

The various search engine bots can get stuck at times, and that can cause very large numbers like that.

Or it could have been some kind of rudimentary DOS attack. I have no clue why anyone would target a forum like FTLOP, but we do occasionally get hit by hackers.

That looks like a great haul, indeed. I do love DR and Brunheda. Just a quick question: on my first PHT2 in 2021 we also visited Brunheda, where I a.o. bought two bottles of their very old tawny Cask 51. It is clearly a T :lol:, but where would you place it age wise? According to my notes from that...

I’m disappointed there’s no 1935 White or Tawny from Kopke on your list. And, personally, although the 1937 gets all the headlines, I think the 1941 is a better glass of wine. I love both 1935s and the 1934, but had to draw a line somewhere. The 1937 is a classic and I basically always want to have...

Eric Ifune wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 11:48 pm Wow. Older than the DR Muitos Muitos Velhos?

Yes, assuming the one you're talking about is the 1885. It's not a lot older - probably from 1875 or so - but it is definitely older than the one we've purchased in the past. There's also a lot less of it left, and it's a lot more expensive.

Stefano's birthday somehow reminded me that I had a box of Kopke halves in my Port room. It was buried and had been for years, but this reminder prompted me to go dig it out since the bottles are getting old. They all date back to when Stefano worked for Kopke's importer in Seattle. I opened the 20 ...

That is a VERY nice haul. Did you taste the 3 Brunheda's on your just completed tour? How were they? And what are the ages of the VVO White and the T6a? Yep, tasted all of these and a couple more that were above my pay grade. :lol: As with many things at Brunheda, the exact ages mostly aren't known...

Pretty good haul from my recently completed trip to Portugal: 1937 Kopke Colheita 1941 Kopke Colheita 1964 Kopke Colheita 1965 Kopke Colheita 2004 Kopke Colheita Branco (x4) 1906 Brunheda Colheita Brunheda Very Very Old White Port Brunheda T6a Tawny Port (x2) DR 50 Year Old White Port (x2) DR 50 Yea...

Roy Hersh wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 6:27 pm 1851 Malvasia Candida from Faja dos Padres