For The Love Of Port

I enjoyed it, even if a large number of the answers were the "safe" answer - the 1931 Noval Nacional. There were some gems in there, too, like Gustavo's desire to try a 1983 Nacional. Hello Glenn, Just a quick note - If you read it well it was not me but my brother Gonçalo that wishes to ...

"Going organic" is quite a topic in many (richer) countries in Europe, but it is still much less common with wine than with other fruit products. I have the impression that with wine, producers don't really have a choice: they mostly try to "leave the vinyard on its own" to redu...

Alex, Thank you very much for leaving the 1983 Quinta do Noval Nacional at the Dalva shop. I had the time of my life tasting it with Derek, Raul and my brother - as it's my birthday year - the empty bottle is now right in front of me, in my bedroom, next to other dozen of milestone Ports. Once again...

Some days ago I had the opportunity to meet Jeff Steele - owner and winemaker of Roxo port Cellars. I was deeply impressed with both him and his wife passion about Port and how happy they were for visiting the Douro and Porto. Jeff was so kind that he actually offered me 2 half bottles of his Ruby T...

1977 Dow and 1966 Graham, serious milestones.

OMG, Raul is here....call security!

Dear all, First, thank you for all your cooperation. As you realised, the core of this survey is ONLY for Port Lovers which means all of YOU. I'll make sure that I publish the results later on. So far we have 39 results though we need 100 to be statistically relevant. :scholar: Obrigado, Gustavo

Hello Port Wine lovers, I would be most grateful if you could spare 3-5 minutes and complete this online questionnaire. This research is a major contribution to a project for my Wine Marketing Master Degree. It seeks the opinion of Port lovers who have had an experience purchasing Port and also inve...

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Go Oscar!

Happy Anniversary!

First, happy birthday Andy!

If you don't have much time to enjoy a VP, my vote goes for São Leonardo 30y - in one word: brilliant; As for the Douro, I would go for Batuta 2001 as the others are probably too young.

Once again, happy birthday my friend, today I'll drink Port to your health.

Roy,

Hats off to you! This newsletter is simply superb!
Surely one of the best ever, a real pleasure to read,

Congratulations and thank you,

Gustavo

An amazing tasting I must say, I'm also very curious to hear some feedback

Tim Swaback wrote:Everyone has a cellar, but do you have a GUARD!

Very cool picture Tim, very nice indeed!

Definitely Dow and Fonseca - serious milestones in my life.

For table wines, Ridge and Tablas Creek. For dessert wines, Ficklin. Oddly enough, these are the only places I still have wine memberships with. :drunk: Ficklin Vineyards the 1st US wine producer to have 4 Portuguese/Douro native grape varieties! :-) Definitely one of the producers to visit if I ev...

Interesting subject. During my trip to Scotland last October 2009, as a Port fanatic, I've made a seriously incursion to some distilleries with some Port finish whiskies. My very favourite ones: Pitlochry’s gems: The smallest distillery in Scotland - EDRADOUR - 2003 Port 46% - single malt, which has...

15th of May 2008 - 2 cases of Vesuvio 2005 - this one makes me want to live forever.

Warm regards,

Gustavo

...Port investment... Since I'll never sell a bottle of Port, I have a hard time characterizing my Port purchases as "investments". Same for me Peter, I totally understand you. What I mean with investment is buying at the right time, place, condition and at a challenging price. We all kno...