For The Love Of Port

As for current grape that is widely used: Tempranillo I regret to inform you that you drink quite a lot of Tempranillo - in Portugal it is known as Tinta Roriz and is one of the more common grapes used to make Port. :evil: There are probably a lot of port grapes that I wouldn't like as varietals, b...

As for current grape that is widely used: Tempranillo Now on this I must disagree. I had one California Tempranillo that was a real eye opener, a good number of Spanish ones, and I think Tempranillo is one of the reasons I like Port so much. Now my experiences are limited, and I do wonder if it is ...

though the Montefalco was an exception but not a mind blowing one. I can't agree with your take on Italian wines, but this line me me stop. I'm a huge fan of Sagrantino di Montefalco, and would be the first to admit they have some consistency issues. I've had rather plain bottles, and truly outstan...

I have lots of least favorite grapes. My #1 least favorite grape is probably Mission, but it's not very common to find it made into wine any more. As for current grape that is widely used: Tempranillo It doesn't matter where it is from or how much it costs. I've had scores of bad California Temprani...

Now you are touching on activism that is close to my heart. I’m all for the ‘free the grapes’ campaign. On a similar note, I’m also for boycotting wine.com for the way they are using The Man to drive Mom & Pop shops out of the market . And while I am outraged, why doesn't my local wine store hav...

Welcome Eric. I was wondering if Conceito had a website?

Does Symington really own 31% of all the Touriga Nacional grown in the Douro?

That is shocking if true. The stat comes from CataVino, in a post about Symington deciding to go organic. Does anyone know if this is true?

Roy, what do you think in % is the impact of oxygen vs wood for flavours and color component of a Port? If no one minds, I’ll take a crack at this one. In color, there are many things going on, but none of them have anything to do with the wood as far as I know. Monomeric Anthocyanins, the grape pi...

I’m a huge fan of Italian wines. One varietal that isn’t really popular (yet) is Sagrantino. It is grown around the village of Montefalco in Umbria. It is phenomenal wine when it is done right. A bottle of Colpetrone and a rare tenderloin is pretty close to a religious experience.

Roy Hersh wrote:In fact, many of my friends and tasting group buddies ... check Parker/WS scores and see if they own the wines. If they love 'em, they check winesearcher.com and then order the wine they are tasting

That might be the slickest thing I’ve ever heard of. Very cool.

There were 3 options that fit me well, but I went with ‘I love the way it tastes’. Port is also great after a meal, and is my favorite desert wine. While not a fan of dry white Port, dry wines are high on my list, especially the really big red ones. One other aspect to port not listed above is the l...

I’m much more of a geek with my notes. They are all kept in a program called Microsoft OneNote. If I can’t find a label online, I take a picture of the empty bottle and use that. The tasting notes are categorized by winery which also has notes, pictures of the facilities, maps of the area, people an...

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As the sun warms the earth’s ocean, it reduces that area the phytoplankton will live in, which in turn reduces the ocean’s photosynthetic capacity, and thereby raises CO2 levels. That is why CO2 levels rise and fall in lockstep with sunspot counts and temperature records. It has nothing to do with ...

I started this topic ( 38 posts ago ) wanting to know If the Port industry was going to attend the Climat conference in Barcelone . Scott or Bryan or any Portonian for that matter , would you venture a guess as to how the micro-climate of the Douro valley be affected ? http://www.zeek.net/i/yoda.jp...

So if you think that the suns spot flareups and sun's natural cycles impact CO2 levels and thus climate on earth, why would you not think that man's introduction of massive and measureable amounts of CO2 would have none at all? Because CO2 is a poor greenhouse gas, and such a trivial component of t...

Yeah, i can go back and forth on the science of it all and agree that 125 years is not even a blip, since I do have a geology degree and studied this all at university. Great! I’m really glad to hear it, because there are a couple things about your whole CO2 climate change theory that doesn’t make ...

From GISS: The six warmest years in the GISS record have all occurred since 1998, and the 15 warmest years in the record have all occurred since 1988. Sorry Scott, sorry but your information is old. NASA got caught altering their algorithm, which made it look like it was getting warmer. They had to...

I really like the heavy bottles for port. While I have had some half decent wine from a tetrapak, there is just something not right with port in a Chinese Take-Out Carton.

The biggest part of the whole anthropogenic global warming theory that has me shaking my head is the way popular opinion works. In the late 90’s, when the evidence for it was strongest, the general public really wasn’t on board. Now that the evidence is really doing serious damage to the credibility...