NV Quinta do Portal "6 Barrels" Tawny Reserve Port

[dave berg]

About $25 at a small wine store on Cole in Enumclaw, Wa The label says this is a blend of their 6 best barrels. It's not too heavy and very woody. Reddish maple syrup color. Marvelous woody dark fruity nose, maybe a bit of heavy fermenting citrus, and cherry-almond. This tastes maybe like fig, blackberry, maybe currant, and a nice slight bright cherry overtone. I think I like the term maple here too. If it sounds a lot like my description of the Cockburn's 10 year, I'd say yes, these two are a lot alike, this being less woody. I'd highly recommend this too.

[Glenn E.]

Great find! I've never seen one of these... could you post a picture? I'd love to see what the bottle looks like.

[Andy Velebil]

Thanks for the note, I've not seen this for sale in my parts yet either, though I've seen pics of it before. Glad to know it's a good QPR and when I run across it I'll get some.

[Bradley Bogdan]

Ditto on the picture. I'd love to look for it if it makes it to Texas.


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[Roy Hersh]

Nice TN David. I hope you are well and I am sure you are not missing the Puy! I will be seeing Claudia and Rod this weekend and will be opening a nice 30 year old Port for them.

[dave berg]

Great find! I've never seen one of these... could you post a picture? I'd love to see what the bottle looks like.

I unfortuneatly do not have a camera or computer, but I'll look at it when I get home and try & write a description. If you go to the Wine Searcher it shows a picture, but I'll look at mine and be sure it's the same.

[dave berg]

Hi Roy--lucky Claudia and Rod, and they deserve that. You are right-my attitude has done a 180 and I don't miss the fair at all. Thought maybe I'd go back in a year or two--but just feel I'm really weary of all those long nights and wouldn't enjoy it at all, in spite of the great crew in 2015.

[Andy Velebil]

Here's a pic I found online.

[Glenn E.]

Looks sharp!

[David Spriggs]

Wow! I've never seen that bottling before,

[dave berg]

Great find! I've never seen one of these... could you post a picture? I'd love to see what the bottle looks like.

I looked at my bottle, and if when on my post for '6 Barrrels' you hit the 'Wine Searcher' button, the bottle you see is the same.

[dave berg]

Here's a pic I found online.

This is what I bought in Enumlaw, yes.

[dave berg]

Wow! I've never seen that bottling before,

Thanks for contributing--you may notice in my adjacent post for Cockburn's 10 year, I referred to a post of yours from years before, with quite a different judgement of Cockburn's 10 year than mine. Just odd I can find something unusual in some little wine shop in Enumclaw, Wa.