For The Love Of Port

Any Port you've had this year that which was not consumed in Portugal qualifies.

So which one and why?

Warre VP 1966
First VP of this age I've ever tried and I really liked it this old

Burmester 1986 Colheita
Really nice colheita and at 26 USD I thought it was a steal

-Lars

1950 Grahams or 1940 Niepoort Garrafeira.

Burmester LBV 2000

My house port for now :)

Quinta do Javali 2004

Best VP i ever did drink till now :)

Quinta do Vargellas VV 1995 just blew me away last week and it is with no doubt the best Port I had in Canadian land so far in 2007.

1815 Royal Oporto Colheita.

Although not the highest scoring wine I've had, but OMG, how often does one get to try a Port that old. When you think about what was happening in the world at that time...simply amazing.

Burmester Colheita 1932

Never had any port this good

1997 Niepoort. Looking forward to seeing how this evolves over the decades.

An easy, albeit sentimental, answer for me. 1997 Graham's on the occasion of our 10th anniversary. I'm sure it's still on the young side, but an excellent port on a special day. :)

R

1948 Fonseca!!!

2nd 1948 Graham's
and 3rd 1955 Graham's

Hi,
It's my first post here. I'm from Porto, Portugal. João Rico invite me to write here. I'll try in the future to translate my tasting notes of Port's and Douro Wines to put here inthe forum.

My favorite Port's drank in 2007 are:

Niepoort Vintage 2005
Sandeman 40 Years ( this one in the 1st of January at Midnight )

Paulo,

Welcome to the forum and its great to have you here. Looking forward to reading your posts in the future.

Thanks!
In this forum I think I just know João Rico and the Douro Lover Frederick Blais. When he went to Niepoort, I was there in a trip with João Rico, and we drank a couple of outrageous wines.

Regards,

frexou wrote:Thanks!
In this forum I think I just know João Rico and the Douro Lover Frederick Blais. When he went to Niepoort, I was there in a trip with João Rico, and we drank a couple of outrageous wines.

Regards,

Welcome to the site Paulo, we are never short of good knowledge on this site. And yes it was great at Napoles the other night.

I have been fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time on a few occasions this year to be able to try some wonderful ports. Roy's birthday bash was one of those opportunities and so was Linden Wilkie's Noval vs Nacional tasting.

However, I think that my favourite bottle this year was the 1960 Noval that I opened in July this year, expecting a delicate and fading wine well past its peak and declining graciously into its tawny phase.

Instead, I got a vibrant and lively but fully mature wine that had a massive length ... and with Nacional branded on the side of the cork.

Not the best wine this year, nor the best memory but up there with them.

Alex

Favourite VPs consumed this year:
Tie: Noval 2003 and JMFonseca & van Zeller 2003 (if you told me these two wines were bottled out of the same pipas I would not be surprised, they were THAT close in quality/taste/etc.)

LBV:
Recently, 1996 Portal LBV (unfiltered, bottled in 2001.)

Too lazy to post TNs, but if you search for any of these above Ports, with Todd Pettinger as the author, you should be able to find them. Perhaps I'll come back tomorrow night and find these links and edit this post for ease of reference for those who care to look at the TNs... for now I'm playing catch-up for missing the last couple of days.

Todd,

I have a strong feeling that your response is going to change in about 3 weeks.

This has been a lot of fun to read so far. Thanks for the great answers.

Taylor 1970

So far:

Taylor 1963 VP - unknown bottling, but presumed to be British.

Runner up: Romariz 1944 Colheita - from cask: thanks again, Stefano...WHAT a treat!

Roy Hersh wrote:Todd,

I have a strong feeling that your response is going to change in about 3 weeks.

This has been a lot of fun to read so far. Thanks for the great answers.

Roy, I highly suspect you are correct!