NYC's Acker Merrall: Taylor v. Fonseca VPs w/ Roy Hersh 12/6
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:53 pm
TAYLOR FLADGATE VS. FONSECA VINTAGE PORT (BLIND) TASTING
HOSTED BY ROY HERSH
Thursday December 6th
To find the origins of Taylor Fladgate, one must go back over three centuries, to the 1670s, when Job Bearsley, an English merchant, established what is today that respected firm at Viana, in the Minho. Bearsley's initial activities were in the wool trade, and the "4XX" logo, originally his woolmark, was branded on bales of wool, and later, casks of port wine, for shipment. The firm was officially founded in 1692; Bearsley thereafter moved his offices to Oporto; this date places Taylor Fladgate as one of Oporto's oldest Port houses. The prehistory of the firm of Fonseca Guimaraens lies in the late 1700s, in a company known as Fonseca & Monteiro, located in Oporto. The Fonseca family, of Brazilian origin, conducted its trade in wine, foodstuffs, olive oil and cloth primarily with Brazil in exchange for sugar cane, hemp and snuff from the colonies.
Roy Hersh has been a Port lover for twenty-five years and is renowned as one of the leading Port wine authorities and journalists in the United States. He hosts fortheloveofport.com the most popular interactive Port & Madeira website in the world and pens a free monthly newsletter that reaches over 60 countries. In June 2003, Roy was one of just two Americans selected by the Port and Douro Wine Institute (IVDP) to be "enthroned" into their "Confraria" (Port wine brotherhood). Roy is hands down the one and only “Port Authority.” We will sample in a blind taste off: Taylor and Fonseca 1994; 1992; 1985; 1983; 1977; 1970 and 1963.
Fourteen ports in all and of course we won't forget the Stilton!
TASTINGS BEGIN AT 7:00 pm
THE WARWICK HOTEL
65 West 54 Street • New York, NY 10019
(unless otherwise noted).
Please call David Hamburger at 212.875.0222 Monday – Friday to confirm events. You can also register online at http://www.winewkshop.com
HOSTED BY ROY HERSH
Thursday December 6th
To find the origins of Taylor Fladgate, one must go back over three centuries, to the 1670s, when Job Bearsley, an English merchant, established what is today that respected firm at Viana, in the Minho. Bearsley's initial activities were in the wool trade, and the "4XX" logo, originally his woolmark, was branded on bales of wool, and later, casks of port wine, for shipment. The firm was officially founded in 1692; Bearsley thereafter moved his offices to Oporto; this date places Taylor Fladgate as one of Oporto's oldest Port houses. The prehistory of the firm of Fonseca Guimaraens lies in the late 1700s, in a company known as Fonseca & Monteiro, located in Oporto. The Fonseca family, of Brazilian origin, conducted its trade in wine, foodstuffs, olive oil and cloth primarily with Brazil in exchange for sugar cane, hemp and snuff from the colonies.
Roy Hersh has been a Port lover for twenty-five years and is renowned as one of the leading Port wine authorities and journalists in the United States. He hosts fortheloveofport.com the most popular interactive Port & Madeira website in the world and pens a free monthly newsletter that reaches over 60 countries. In June 2003, Roy was one of just two Americans selected by the Port and Douro Wine Institute (IVDP) to be "enthroned" into their "Confraria" (Port wine brotherhood). Roy is hands down the one and only “Port Authority.” We will sample in a blind taste off: Taylor and Fonseca 1994; 1992; 1985; 1983; 1977; 1970 and 1963.
Fourteen ports in all and of course we won't forget the Stilton!
TASTINGS BEGIN AT 7:00 pm
THE WARWICK HOTEL
65 West 54 Street • New York, NY 10019
(unless otherwise noted).
Please call David Hamburger at 212.875.0222 Monday – Friday to confirm events. You can also register online at http://www.winewkshop.com
