For The Love Of Port

And I agree with Randy. What "dofus!"

Although that label looks exactly right.

I think I've encountered only a couple corked Madeira. Seems pretty rare. Not sure why.

Barbeito 20 yo Malvasia.

I've been to most of the museums. The chocolate may be the one I'm missing. The Bridge collection is, by far my favorite. I went twice.

2023 Mouchao Verdelho Curtimenta, from a bottle opened a couple days.

50 year old Barbeito O Americano Malvasia.
Didn't drink as much old Madeira as Port this year.

Young VP 2023 Noval Nacional
Old VP 1945 Croft
Wood aged, tough one. My top three are DR Muitos Vehlos (1885), DR 150 year old, and Taylor Kingsman.

20 year old Barbeito Malvasia
1948 Barbeito Malvasia
1880 D'Oliverias Terrantez
Barbeito 50 year old O Americano Malvasia
1920 Lomalino Malvasia.

The labels can be a bit confusing. Sometmes they say rebottling and other times recorking. Not sure if they really rebottle but it could be possible. I know Ricardo Freitas has been known to dump bottles into a cask for a short time to give them more air before rebottling.

Some of the Ficklin wines are stewed. I've had these and they are too. Their best wines were from Lake County way up north. Sadly those vineyards didn't belong to them and they were ripped up some years ago.

Ficklin is my favorite. Portuguese grape varieties. Ruby's are generally ruby-like. Tawnies do show quite a bit of VA. Sometimes raiseny, but oftimes not. I have a few back to 1988.

2002 Barbeito Boal.

Formerly a reputable shipper. I've had several nice bottles.

A 375 ml of Rocha 40 year old.

2020 Carlos Raposo Definato Branco

Enologio 30 year old white.

Filtered or Unfiltered?

2019 Tabodella Grand Villae Tinto

Enologo 10 year old Tawny. Much better than I remember and obviously Bulased.