For The Love Of Port

Roy Hersh wrote:. . . I think I would have to open something special to celebrate with. . . .

Do we get to share?

Bump. Nobody knows anything?

I really like poultry with Port sauce. I have never tried it with duck but it sounds like a great idea. I will do it! The first wine dinner I ever went to was in 1979 with my wife just after my first son was born (our first day out after the birth). It was a pot luck wine dinner and we brought a dis...

Is it pop and pour or do you have to look at it in your wine cellar for 15 years. Pop and pour! I personally like it on the rocks with a lemon twist. I've heard some people put mint leaves in as well, although I never tried that. Yucky poo. The stuff I had a T Edwards was a sweet desert wine with a...

I consider myself a lover of port, but I tend to drink the cheap and cheerful bottles. I've tried Dow's and Warre but wondered if anyone knows any reasonably priced bottles I could try. Thanks. I know this is going to sound totally moronic - but I stopped in at the Trader Joe's liquor store on 14th...

nicos neocleous wrote:Jay,

I have bought and enjoyed Churchill's white Port in the past.

I checked it on Winesearcher. Looks very cheap. I can get it for $15 or less. Is it pop and pour or do you have to look at it in your wine cellar for 15 years.

I didn't even know there was such a thing as White Port until I went to a charity wine tasting by T Edward wines last year and they had a few. I thought they were very interesting and worth buying a few, if for no better reason than to surprise people with mystery wines at OLs. And I would like to h...

I have a bottle of 1963 Calem VP. I got it about 18 months ago as a gift from another collector. I know nothing about it, except that there is a big huge ugly orange plastic capsule that looks new and looks like it will take a sawzall to remove it, and there are some mediocre Parker reviews of later...

Roy Hersh wrote:. . . Jay, you'd love our combo trips to Madeira with Port too. The wines we got to drink last month were pretty fantastic. WE'll be doing one again in the spring of 2008.

Yeah, but what's my wife to do. She hates cough syrup.

Paul David wrote:

Jay Hack wrote: I spilled some on my pants leg and you could still smell it 4 days later!

Great story congrats to your mom -it's the last sentence that got me a bit worried about you :twisted:

Four days later, as in when I took the pants to the cleaners to have them dry cleaned.

I have 3 bottles of 1994 Fonseca that I have had since release or there abouts. I know that I should wait until 2024 to drink the first one, but I will be 73 by them, and it doesn't leave a lot of room to spread out the other two. So what three years should I target for opening the three bottles. &q...

. . . I paid $34 per bottle for my 2 cases . . . The FCC would throw me in jail for what I really want to post, but then again I have some bottles of 1970s era Laffite and Latour with price tags still on them for $23.75 and $25. I just don't have enough experience to judge the 1977 as a "young...

I overpaid at $360 for an 85 year old Madeira for my mother's 85th birthday because that's all there was. I suppose I would go that high for a very special bottle of port for a special occasion. The most I ever paid was only $140 or so for a 1977 Dow's in perfect condition. I would pay more for a Na...

1951 Offley Baron de Forrester Porto Colheita - Portugal, Douro, Porto (9/26/2006) Birth year Port bought at auction. Brought this to someone's home for an after-golf dinner. Tons of sediment even though bottled in 1998. Pain in the ass to open - hard wax and T stopper. We had to strain through che...

My wife hates Port. She give the cough syrup speech. Makes it hard to justify opening a bottle except when I bring it to a dinner with other wineaux. So I see on the Acker Merral auction list tomorrow a case of 24 1997 Niepoort half bottles with a presale estimate starting at $700. Add 19.5% premium...

. . . about 30% more time in wood . . . I also had the 1922 D'Oliveiras Boal 2005 bottling - see my separate post. Is it actually in wood? I thought it was in ceramic casks. Don't they lose a very high percentage of the wine by evaporation through the wood. How do they deal with that? Do they move ...

I managed to get what appears to be the last bottle in the retail distribution chain in the US until RWC can get some more from the producer. RWC was out, they sent me to the NY distributor, who gave me a list of every retailer who had bought a bottle in the last 2 years. I found one bottle only 6 b...

I was bidding on a bottle of 1977 Dow's on Wine Commune this weekend and one of you Wine Communists spiked me by a dollar and got my bottle. :x It's actually the fault of my tech guy in my office because the system crashed again and I did not get the notice that I had lost the bid until after the lo...

Try saran wrap.

I bought a six bottle lot at auction two weeks ago because my wife and I were both born in 1951, which was an awful year for wine in Europe and this was my big chance to drink some birth year wine. Picked it up today. The label says "bottled in 1988" and the quality of the label, bottle fi...