For The Love Of Port

If you had to pick just 3 Port houses whose style wins you over nearly ever time you pop a bottle, which 3 would you pick?

Dude, you know that is such a hard question... That being said, let me start it off (nothing controversial here & no order to them...)

Dow
Fonseca
Graham

Top two are easy

1. Graham (If there's a Graham in the line-up (blind), it usually gets a great score)
2. Dows
3. ???

Roy Hersh wrote:If you had to pick just 3 Port houses whose style wins you over nearly ever time you pop a bottle, which 3 would you pick?

Mine are pretty easy...

1. Graham
2. Vesuvio
3. Fonseca
4. Quinta do Vale Meao

Okay maybe the "3" part was hard...

So far I would say as reflected by our cellar...

Dow
Fonseca
Graham

Honorable mention to Smith-Woodhouse, we have yet to have a bottle that we both didn't thoroughly enjoy.

Edward J wrote:So far I would say as reflected by our cellar...

If I went by that, my list would be (I am guessing)

Graham
Croft
Sandeman

Noval
Krohn (gotta have one primary for wood aged wines)
Fonseca

Niepoort
Krohn
Ramos Pinto

Please keep the voting going. It would be great if the old timers, as well as the newer FTLOP participants would all take a shot at this question. If we get 20 answers or so, I'll do an analysis/chart of all the responses.

Top two are easy for me, third place is much harder - too many good candidates.

1. Fonseca
2. Warre
3. Croft (or Niepoort, or...)

In no specific order,

Dow
Fonseca
Warre

I'd say my unordered three are:

Grahams
Fonseca
S. Leonardo (limited sample size, but holy smokes have they been good when I've had them)


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My three chosen porthouses (Niepoort, Wiese und Krohn, Ramos Pinto) may surprise, but I have to tell, that 14 out of 15 consumed bottles are older than 40 years....

I simply enjoy old Colheitas and Tawnies.
Only at my mother in laws, I drink more recent wines...And at tastings.
But when I open my friday night port, it is the old fat juice I am pouring in my glass.

Many of my ports are "ordinary Tawnies", sold 40-50 years ago, and I tell You, that the Krohns and RPs are a long term friendship! The old Niepoorts (Senior, Presidente, Cordiale, Blansec, fine old.....) are Allways a succes

Graham
Fonseca
Noval

Niepoort
Quinta do Vesuvio
Graham

Glenn E. wrote:

Roy Hersh wrote:If you had to pick just 3 Port houses whose style wins you over nearly ever time you pop a bottle, which 3 would you pick?

Mine are pretty easy...

1. Graham
2. Vesuvio
3. Fonseca
4. Quinta do Vale Meao

Okay maybe the "3" part was hard...

Just to add fuel to the fire... I answered based on Vintage Port styles. My list changes if we're talking about Tawny Port:

1. Quinta do Mourao (S. Leonardo)
2. Krohn
3. Andressen
4. Sogevinus (Kopke/Calem/Burmester/Porto Rocha)

Roy Hersh wrote:Please keep the voting going. It would be great if the old timers, as well as the newer FTLOP participants would all take a shot at this question. If we get 20 answers or so, I'll do an analysis/chart of all the responses.

Have we had 20 answers yet?

My top three are:
Fonseca
Graham
Noval (even with their gap in quality in the '80s)

There is so much I just don't get to see, but based on what I have had -
1) Grahams
2) Kopke
3) Noval
I might give you a different answer tomorrow though