For The Love Of Port

Thank you both for the information!
I think the coravin could be interesting to use to check if bottle are "ready". But since I take forever to drink a bottle it may work well for me.

Also do any of you use a coravin to just have a glass of a bottle instead of committing to the whole bottle?

When you decant and there is a lot of sediment, do you filter it out either with a fine mesh strainer or coffee filter? Ot just leave it to sink in the decanter? Would love some insight.

Roy Hersh wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 3:15 pm 1952 Kopke Colheita, btld. 2014
1952 Graham's Commemoration btld. 2012

WOW.

1996 Belo Wine Company Vintage Port Came in from Winebid, and was seeping, so what a great excuse to open it. Decanted with lots of sediment. Very fruit forward on first sip, with some alcohol on the pallet. Will see how it does after some decant time. :-) Who’s Belo Wine? It's a Napa Valley compan...

1996 Belo Wine Company Vintage Port

Came in from Winebid, and was seeping, so what a great excuse to open it.
Decanted with lots of sediment.
Very fruit forward on first sip, with some alcohol on the pallet. Will see how it does after some decant time.

1987 Andrew Quady Quady's Starboard
2004 Peltier Station USB
1997 Sandeman Vau Vintage
2000 Warre's

Another oddball group.

Roy's ratings of vintages can be found here. Those ratings will give you a general idea of which vintages are good, which are great, and which should be avoided. The most notable recent vintages ("recent" by Port standards :lol:) have already been mentioned and are 2011, 1994, and 1970. B...

1996 Belo Wine Company Vintage Port, 375ml 1987 Beringer Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Port 1995 Dow's Quinta do Bomfim, 375ml 1991 Fonseca Guimaraens 1995 Graham's Malvedos 1977 Messias Quinta do Cachao 2016 Quinta da Romaneira Would love any comments about these bottles. Cause this was blindly g...

Decades don't matter much by themselves, the vintage and producer matter. For example, people will tell you that 90s Niepoort bottlings tend to have VA issues so its probably best to avoid them. Others can chime in on the quality but from the perspective of pricing alone, it is not really correlate...

1996 Belo Wine Company Vintage Port, 375ml 1987 Beringer Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Port 1995 Dow's Quinta do Bomfim, 375ml 1991 Fonseca Guimaraens 1995 Graham's Malvedos 1977 Messias Quinta do Cachao 2016 Quinta da Romaneira Would love any comments about these bottles. Cause this was blindly gr...

Hi all! I've been looking around winebid some, focusing on the cheaper bottles as I'm new to the game. I've been reading a lot of posts and its clear there is a lot of knowledge in this forum group. Curious to know if there are any sort of general suggestions for buying ports. Are their decades that...

Thank you! They were suggested to me while i was in town.

Mike J. W. wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 7:01 pm 1 x Quinta do Mourao 30 y.o. White Port (thanks John M.)
1 x 2004 Warre's LBV
2 x 2010 Sandeman LBV
1 x 2011 Dow's LBV

I just bought a bottle of the Dow's 2011 LBV as well. I know nothing about it.

I'm travelling to San Franciso, CA US. Can anyone suggest a good store to find port? Are there any that are really great?

Eric Menchen wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 11:42 am

Red Aaron wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 10:33 am What is PHT2?

Port Harvest Tour 2

Oh! Cool. Thank you for that!

My haul from PHT2. Kopke 50 year old. Kopke 50 year old white. Kopke 1966 Colheita. Brunheda 1906. San Leonardo 1948, mother of the 40 year old. San Leonardo 1972, mother of the 30 year old. Quinta de Santa Eufemia 30 year old white. Vasconcellos 40 year old. Vista Alegre 1969 Colheita. What is PHT2?

A 2003 Fonseca Colheita bottled in 2017

I went to Newark today where Mike JW previously mentioned some portuguese wine shops. The one listed on yelp as "Oporto Wines" still has an old Andresen LBV btw in one of the lower shelves, I think '92 and I didn't buy it. What a weird, liquor style store. It would seem that they are unde...

Hi everyone. I'm Aaron. Just getting into port a little more seriously. I forgot I liked it, and am rekindling my enjoyment. Putting together a little collection of things i can find around at local grocery and liquor stores. Probably the most interesting thing I have now is a 1970 Maynards Colheit...