For The Love Of Port

For me the best 50 Year Old Tawny Port is currently DR. In my experience, a lot of producers' 50s seem to be out-of-character for their house styles. I.e. the 50 does not seem like it fits into the 10-20-30-40 progression. Noval is an example of that - their 50 is (at least to me) dramatically more ...

Mike, Andrew K and Brad B went in together and bought a case of 1963 Smith Woodhouse and 10 bottles of 1966 Rabello Valente at that amazing Port Auction at Heritage. Got beat out on 1994 Vesuvio and two different lots of 1970 Fonseca...hope they went to happy FTLOPers. [cheers.gif] I got one of the...

1940 Kopke Colheita (375ml) bottles 2013

It was a little dull, probably due to bottle age, but the effect didn't feel like bottle age so it was confusing. Still a very nice Port!

2015 Graham LBV
1991 Andresen Colheita

The Graham paired really well with a brisket from Lewis Barbecue in Charleston, South Carolina.

I accidentally reversed 2 of the colors... in this picture, purple is Vinhos dos Cardenhos (north of the house) and Port Arthur (south and east of the house). Blue is then a block of Sousao, brown is the block of Alicante Bouchet, and green is a block of Touriga Franca. Most of what's above the road...

SYMINGTON FAMILY DECLARES 2024 VINTAGE PORTS ... I'm surprised to see so much Alicante Bouschet listed. I'm quite familiar with the grape (Mouchão!), but I've never seen it come up on lists of the 5 or 6 most common grapes used in Vintage Port. I'm pretty sure that there is Alicante Boushet in Grah...

Graham’s The Stone Terraces 2024 Vintage Port Made from two low-yielding vineyards of just under three hectares laid out on magnificent stone terraces at Quinta dos Malvedos. 2024 is only the sixth vintage of this extraordinary wine. Production: 520 cases (9L) – just 2% of the total production at Q...

A snippet that I learned a couple of weeks ago is that this wine did not come from Krohn stocks but was a more recent acquisition from a family who had full IVP/IVDP paperwork to show it is properly a 1976 Colheita. Good to know! The 1976 Krohn is well-known amongst this crowd, so it would be inter...

I bought a Krohn Vintage 1961 this week and fortunately it arrived in perfect condition. It was very well packaged. I’m very curious to see how this vintage port tastes. I haven’t decided on the exact moment to open it yet. How long would you recommend decanting it? I’ve read quite a few different ...

Krohn maakt uitstekende Colheitas, maar helaas is daar – sinds de overname door Taylor Fladgate – min of meer een einde aan gekomen; het lijkt er namelijk op dat Taylor de voorraad van Krohn gebruikt om onder de naam Taylor te bottelen, tegen een aanzienlijk hogere prijs. In fact, there has been a ...

A Colheita from 1940 can be very valuable, but there are 2 things about your bottle that likely lower that value. The first is that it is a virtually unknown Port house. This is the first time that I've ever heard of Sailor Porto. A 1940 Colheita from a well-known house could be worth several hundre...

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2026 8:10 pm 1973 Quinta da Devesa Finest Reserve Branco Port.

A year-dated "Finest Reserve"? That seems like an odd labeling.

That's awesome! I can't wait to try it. By the time I get there, though, she'll have been in business for a couple of years already.

That's the Madeira Wine Company, but I know nothing about that particular bottle.

Real Vinicola effectively no longer exists. Its assets were purchased by The Fladgate Partnership in 2011, but Real Companha Velha retained the rights to the Real Companha Vinicola do Norte name. From what I can find, this wine is allegedly from 1944 and was bottled in 1987. It's a Tawny Port, but f...

That's very sad, he was so young.

S. Leonardo Porto Mother Wine Origin of the 30 Year Old Tawny Port (500 ml, b. 2022) This was bottled straight out of the infamous Tonel #9 at Port Knox, and IIRC is a 1972 Colheita that lacks proper documentation to be bottled and labeled as such. It was always one of my favorite Ports to get to ta...

There were pretty significant improvements throughout the Douro that started in the 1980s (particularly after Portugal entered the EU in 1986) but really came to fruition in the mid-1990s. I don't think there was really any one thing that happened, but rather several things that came together. New p...

As you might recall, the beneficio for 2024 was 90,000 pipes.

Via Instagram, Sogrape has announced 2024 VP declarations for Sandeman and Ferreira

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVgBO-dltG5/?img_index=1

Opened for a book club which read Theo of Golden by Allen Levi, in which Vintage Port plays a role in forming connections between characters. Color: medium dark red tending toward burgundy and/or brick. Not opaque, but pretty dense. Nose: ripe red fruits - some raspberry, definitely some red currant...