For The Love Of Port

Like you Glenn I would prefer if suppliers didn't dumb things down and kept the real authentic names. They shouldn't think so little of the consumers ability to comprehend varieties of port or other things for that matter. I think there's a danger here of looking at thing through too narrow a lens ...

If you are looking for shops (and apart from those mentioned), Fortnum and Mason and Selfridges both have nice offerings of port / douro wines at surprisingly reasonable prices.

The use of the phrase "single harvest tawny" to refer to what you might call a "colheita" is something that i have seen develop over the last few years as the UK market has been targeted with various special / anniversary release wood-aged ports. I'm not sure i've seen the phrase...

2-3 years of aging is not an LBV, so wherever you saw that about the fat bottle must be an error. Agreed re; 2 years, but the window for producers to bottle LBV from the 2011 vintage runs from 1 July 2015 to 31 December 2017 (i think...), so someone bottling early in that window will be putting out...

And I fail to see how this mistake warrants the smear campaign you're trying to start. I don't think it is the original mistake he is angry at - it's the principal that, following that mistake, he offered a reasonable proposal that was cost neutral to them (vs the extra shipping costs involved in r...

For those of you that recommended vinotemp or eurocave: Are the shelves designed to hold champagne/burgundy bottles? If you are going for the sliding shelves rather than the fixed shelf system on the eurocave, then the shelves are "universal" (described here ). I seem to recall that i cou...

From the perspective of UK capital gains tax, it is not....

HMRC wrote:we would normally contend that wine is not a wasting asset if it appears to be fine wine which not unusually is kept (or some samples of which are kept) for substantial periods sometimes well in excess of 50 years.

Are there any years where a side-by-side comparison using the 'same' grapes were split with one half being foot-trodden and the other half mechanical, for comparison? There was an interesting Malvedos blog article on this topic when they did this with the 2008 harvest - see here . Paul Symington's ...

I notice that they refer to their '82 commemorative tawny as a 'Single Harvest Tawny Port' and not a Colheita. Mahmoud. Has anyone tracked down when the term "colheita" was first used specifically in reference to wood-aged port from a single harvest? I suspect it is later than many would ...

it still says Colheita on the label (as required by Portuguese law) Glenn - are you sure that it is still required by Portuguese law? I haven't had time to look up, but Oscar Quevedo suggests otherwise in his blog ( link to article and quote below) Few days ago I realized that “Colheita”, although ...

Moses, I had one just over a week ago and it was still as wonderful as ever. Agree, contents really don't matter at this point. However, what Tom and others are alluding to ... has to do with Whitwham's older VP bottlings, not fairly recent ones like the 1853 (?) that began in 2001. Also - at least...

While i like BBR bottlings generally, i'm not so convinced that they were above average in the 1970 vintage (which was one of the first vintages to be bottled down in Basingstoke rather than London, i think) Avery was also a quality bottler in my experience. Of course, some of this is not just techn...

It would be interesting to know whether the wine that went into this was "destined" for Quarles Harris from the start, or was just part of the wider stock of 2011 vintage port that the Symingtons presumably had approved for use in various 2011 BOBs to be released in due course. I suspect ...

It would be interesting to know whether the wine that went into this was "destined" for Quarles Harris from the start, or was just part of the wider stock of 2011 vintage port that the Symingtons presumably had approved for use in various 2011 BOBs to be released in due course.

Hopefully this will provide us with the answer [cheers.gif] ...and here is the answer... Wines produced in Douro without Denomination of Origin (Port or Douro) Reply to: Derek T It’s forbidden to produce fortified wines in Douro without Denomination of Origin (D.O.). The legislation which forbids i...

The diagram in Roy's link didn't mention aged white Port, but I'd presume that to be in the smaller vessels as well (pipes). Or reserve tawnies. Or colheitas. Which are two other reasonably important styles of wood-aged port. Plus persistence with the idea that a 20 year tawny has been aged for the...

If what you say is correct, then surely wines like Niepoort's DoDa / DaDo would be an impossibility? That is a new one on me. It would be interesting to know what bureaucracy Dirk had to go through to de-classify those grapes/wines in order to produce and market the blend with the Douro being quote...

Is this speculation, or do you have anything to back this up? I do not have sufficient understanding of the regulations to point you to the specific clauses but I would say it is more than speculation. I think the absence of contrary evidence proves the point I am trying to make. If it were the cas...

No reason why it should have to be "port"....presumably there is no rule that prevents unbottled fortified wine that happens to be made from grapes grown in the Douro being sold? I doubt very much that this is true. If it were the wine making industry would have left its regulator behind ...

Andy Velebil wrote:My fellow American's...there will be no 1982 Graham's Colheita for us

Given it also commemorates their future monarch, presumably Canada will get some?