For The Love Of Port

Do port collectors add additional layers of wax coatings to the capsules of old bottles or long term agers? I've never seen this in a table wine of any age but one of my older bottles looks like a thin layer was applied in a broad band around the base of the capsule at some point after the original ...

Sometimes selling a few bottles of wine is easier than explaining to the wife where the money went.

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A 20% abv alcohol-water solution would freeze just under 20 F. Port isn't just water and alcohol however, and I suspect the other matter might inhibit the freezing a little more than water, so I'm going to say somewhere in the 10-20 F range, which will freeze in most home freezers. A 20% ABV soluti...

I've had several bottles that had seepage concealed by the capsule. It may be that such minor seepage isn't very important. Those bottles seemed perfectly OK to me. It's my (limited) experience that many older wines of Port- or Auslese-level sweetness and high acidity develop slight seepage with ag...

Hello all, I've haunted most of the online fora for years and am finally becoming active on a few of them, so here goes...While my first memories of Port are sipping off my father's glass around the holidays, I didn't get back into Port or wine as a whole until 5 years ago. Since then, I typically k...