For The Love Of Port

My wife and I were at the Pelican Hill Golf Course in Newport Coast last night for a few cocktails. I noticed they carried, among other ports, Taylor's 40 year and Graham's vintage 1970.

I has never seen these high end ports in any bar before and I didn't ask the price. I imagine they would be very expensive.

What's the most expensive port by the glass you've seen and where was it?

Pacific dinning car(Downtown LA) has the Taylor’s VP 1970 by the glass for $55

What are the chances of getting a bad glass from a place that sells port by the glass? Just thinking out loud.


santo

Take care when choosing the place you buy port by the glass and don't be afraid to send back a bad glass.

There's a few places in London which I can recommend if you ever visit there and want to be able to enjoy a glass of vintage port that's in pretty good condition. Every bottle they open is labelled with the time and date it was decanted and they will happily tell you if you ask and even open a new bottle if you think that its been open for too long. (At least they would if you told them that you're a member here.)

Alex

Had Ferreira 20 for $9.00 a glass at the local Irish pub. Even better deal when I ask them to pour it in a wine glass. :twisted:

Moses Botbol wrote:Had Ferreira 20 for $9.00 a glass at the local Irish pub. Even better deal when I ask them to pour it in a wine glass. :twisted:

I always ask my server to make sure its in a small white wine glass, as very few restaurants ever have a true Port glass and they love to use those tiny thimble glasses. This almost always ends up being a larger pour than they usually give....and the Port shows much better too!

Ha, I musta graduated from Andy's school of value, or volume to price ratio...I usually ask for my port in a brandy glass for the same reason as they almost always pour more, especially when they realize those thumbnail glasses are basically shot size.....

Great tricks there, guys. I doubt most waiter's would know port wine glasses, nor possibly bartenders. I guess the trick is, find a restaurant that doesn't look sophisticated, see if they happen to have a good selection of port, then ask them to pour into a white wine glass.

Nice.

Mark, you'd be surprised at how many very high end restuarants try and serve Port in tiny cordial glasses Most just don't know any better, so I try to educate them delicately.

I don’t remember the price, but far and away the most expensive glass of port I’ve ever had in a restaurant was a glass of Quinta do Noval 40 year tawny at the Inn at Little Washington in a small Virginia town outside Washington DC. While I don’t remember the price of any single item, I do remember the tab for three of us ran into four figures.

The port was excellent, and served in the correct glass.

You can get 100 years of Port (a Graham 10, 20, 30, & 40 yr tawny) at a nice restaurant here in Anchorage, Jen's for a respectable $30-something for the set. And they are a nice pour too!

Another restaurant ran a Taylor 100 years of port special too for a while. And that may have been in the high $20's USD.

Scott Anaya wrote:You can get 100 years of Port (a Graham 10, 20, 30, & 40 yr tawny) at a nice restaurant here in Anchorage, Jen's for a respectable $30-something for the set. And they are a nice pour too!

Another restaurant ran a Taylor 100 years of port special too for a while. And that may have been in the high $20's USD.

I would happily pay either price... what a fantastic set and price... hey, you couldn't go wrong.

Bryan Robinson wrote:While I don’t remember the price of any single item, I do remember the tab for three of us ran into four figures.

The most expensive???? Probably a glass of Taylor's 40 y.o. at the Bel-Air hotel for $70.00.

Taylor 40 yo which I believe was going for $40 at Gramercy Tavern in NYC

The list of Ports was far too long for me to remember, but there were some VERY expensive Ports available at the Solar do Vinho do Porto. I'm fairly certain they ranged into triple digits (Euros).

The most expensive that I tasted was a 40-yr old for 28 Euros... sadly I do not remember the brand. It didn't leave much of an impression especially compared to the 20-yr old Ramos Pinto that I very much enjoyed at the same sitting.