For The Love Of Port

Tonight I’d pretty much just echo and duplicate your tasting notes on this one Glenn. I’m content with this tonight, but it doesn’t totally scratch the want for an aged VP experience.

Well, Younger self wasn’t wrong, albeit a bit off about only waiting 6-8 years from my first taste to try this one again. 10+ years later It’s a monster still. Popped and poured yesterday it was all just too much...alcohol, fruit, tannin. Not decanted, but left uncorked overnight and this eve it’s a...

My favorites this year:

Vintage: '77 Fonseca, 94 & 95 Vesuvio

Wood P(p)orts:
Ramos Pinto 20 yr...can't drink enough of this one!
Kopke 30 yr...
Chateau Reynella 12+ year tawny AUS rlly well done

Other: 2000 Portal LBV, '95 Smith Woodhouse LBV

Just came across my interwebs that Quinta do Vesuvio was named Wine & Spirits 2010 Winery of the Year.

Funny, I found July & August the best months to get minimum bids at auction accepted in both Port & still wine lots. I figured it was because folks went on vacation or holiday at that time and did not pay much attention to auctions. I found this out the first time when i had been bidding for...

hmmmm....very interested....

could always chip in and if one couldn't make it, "sell" your seat

completed

In addition to Roy's recommendation for the 40 yr (which I have sadly not had yet) their 30 yr is one of my top tawny ports of all time to date.

Fonseca, Graham's, Smith Woodhouse

Finally relaxing this weekend and watching whatever these awards are on t.v. with a Kopke 10 yr from a FTLOP exclusive offer some time ago...Thank you Roy [cheers.gif] The 3 cases that keep on giving! I also got to crack the Sandeman 30 yr tawny which finally made its way to Alaska after 7 months of...

Glenn et al., A case of Sandemans 30 yr finally arrived in Aaska and all I can say is wow wow wow. Port lovers and those (unfortunate) souls who can take it or leave it all have loved it so far. Really bright and a bit explosive on the initial pallate in a smooth round kinda way if you know what I m...

Current favorites, though not that i can afford these with any real regularity:
Pinot: Littorai, Kosta Browne, Rochioli
Cab/Blends: Verite, Chalk Hill, Chappellet
Gordon Brothers-Syrah, and Cab in select vintages and sweet too
Sine Qua Non-for sweets, can't afford their table wines at all.

'37 Noval Colheita & '45 Croft VP (since the 1897 Byass VP was downed a year or so ago)

Wow, those are great prices and what we pay wholesale in Alaska! I've always liked the Sandeman 20 yr aged tawnies for their classier and brighter showing. I've only had the 40 yr once and remember it being really really nice...not on the acidic front from my recollection, and it had a really really...

Definitely great suggestions and discussion. Couple things related to getting port out there. We often offer custom port flights whether it is two or three of them so a patron can compare ruby to tawny, compare which one they like with a particular dessert better, or compare a basic ruby to a VP, or...

Well well well....guess which single bottle of Colheita my distributor shows up with this week to try? Yup, the Smith Woodhouse '86. :D Woohooo...Damn tasty for sure and it is getting placed onto our BTG menu as soon as possible! Thanks for the suggestions: I'll list as a Colheita with tawny in pare...

8 btl wine cruzer for me too. I like it, but it only holds 8 bottles, ya know? So the rest gets packed and padded with clothes in my other luggage....my wife loves it (not ) when i give her several bottles to pack too.

Okay, I need some advice from ya'll. Since I have mentioned in a post or two that I opened a wine bar in Anchorage, and Roy so graciously featured my place several months back in the newsletter, I have learned allot about the Port knowledge of the general public, or lack there of really. After a tas...

hmmmm....maybe a small Port bar in a very large city might fly. Might have to have KILLER desserts or some sort of related draw too? 30-40 seats maybe?

1937 Warre's Colheita....cannot wait!