For The Love Of Port

Colhieta? Anyone tasted it lately? TIA.

Well, since there is a vintage date on the bottle, I would say it is a colheita. Is 20 y/o written on the bottle too or it has been bottled in 1983, so 20 years in cask?

I did not taste this one. I always liked old colheita from Offley, the 1975 brings good memories. Offley, as said previously, has a soft spot for me and they always produce decent quality stuff, especially for the price they command.

Frédérick Blais wrote:Well, since there is a vintage date on the bottle, I would say it is a colheita. Is 20 y/o written on the bottle too or it has been bottled in 1983, so 20 years in cask?

I did not taste this one. I always liked old colheita from Offley, the 1975 brings good memories. Offley, as said previously, has a soft spot for me and they always produce decent quality stuff, especially for the price they command.

Dear Frédérick,

I have a picture of the bottle but it's illegible as to the small print. This 20 year age is the claim of the seller.

Best, John Trombley

Well if it a 20 years old Port bottled in 1963 I would not tuch it.

If it is a colheita 1963, try to find the bottling date, within the last five years it could be very good, more than that I'd be careful.

Is the seller willing to refund you if it is not good, I'd have big doubt with this one for drinking pleasure. But you never know what can happen, Port has often showed many surprises.

Recently I had a 1978 colheita from Dow's bottled in 1999 and it was really not good, brownish color indicated that it was not well kept or confirmed that many colheitas do not keep well with thos t-cork on the bottle.

I've had the '63 Kopka Colheita about 6 months ago, and it was amazing. I posted notes about it I think.