For The Love Of Port

I understand and you would know best.

By the early 19th century Port was sought after and prized, and shippers’ names began to be associated with the wines offered for sale. One writer alludes to the wine having a good crust (which would indicate it had not been filtered) and the value of ageing the wine in bottle was being appreciated:...

1-Finally, it was in the 18th century that deliberate development of the Douro region as a wine growing region began in earnest. Up until this time, Régua was considered the heart of the region, and vineyards stretched east only as far as Pinhão; now it was being expanded towards Tua, and work began...

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excellent info

Even though it would be out of season would there be things connected to the Port industry that would be open that time of year?

Plus Chateau Margaux is the only non Pauillac first growth (just saying)

With the induction of Peter Skov and Ivan Madsen, 2 Danish blokes into the Confraria do Vinho do Porto just a few days ago in Porto. Peter actually managed to gather all the Niepoort garrafeira bottles once more for a full tasting during these days in Porto. Besides a few of their Danish friends jo...

If memory serves, WAY back in the day quite a few shippers/producers made these types of Port. I've seen several over the years in producers cellars. Though usually it's just one or two older ones that someone looks like they experimented with and they are still there. Probably because no one knows...

Hi, yup - the text is from the FTLOP web=page...: http://www.fortheloveofport.com/faqs/ I know from one other port producer that might one day launch also a garrafeira port... At least I was sitting in his car and it was loaded with beautiful demijohns... :) As these babies take a long time to matu...

The contents of this article are most likely common knowledge to those who know a lot about Port-but since it describes perhaps the rarest style of Port. I just wanted to share this description I had found and saved describing Garrafeira Port. It is not my article and I have had it for some time and...

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Glenn E. wrote:Yes, do share stories! That way those of us who could not go can live vicariously through your experience.

I do not type well enough to convey the thorough coverage, if I may, provided on the tours-

To say that the PHT1 2016 excursion was great would be an understatement. The wines and estates were all specially chosen and the meals were upper echelon gourmet.

Reading this ten years later there is probably no correct answer because their are too many variables. It seems like Noval is in a class of it's own in two ways-the first being that it always produces single quinta ports and the second being that the 1931 is close to being a household word to this d...

Paul Pontallier-so famous-sad

Just saying-some of the older capsules around the neck of the bottle are so detailed and colorful, not to mention the ones that were done in wax.

Quinta das Figueiras-original name of Quinta do Vezúvio, first spelt with a ‘z’ reflectin gold Portuguese spelling.