For The Love Of Port

I bet a small tear drop fell to the ground watching all of those lovely, empty bottles being dumped into the recycling bin. Dirk Niepoort calls us 'The bottle killers' because we get through so many old bottles and don't hang on to the empties.. I keep some singles of empty bottles to line a shelf ...

1994 Ramos Pinto VP "Quinta de Ervamoira". Opened last night. Was ready to enjoy on a pop and pour. Super smooth and rich. Delicate spirit. I hope it doesn't fall apart over the week. Cork was perfect. Really dark in the glass with a minimum of sediment in the bottle. Inspired by me decan...

1994 Ramos Pinto VP "Quinta de Ervamoira". Opened last night. Was ready to enjoy on a pop and pour. Super smooth and rich. Delicate spirit. I hope it doesn't fall apart over the week. Cork was perfect. Really dark in the glass with a minimum of sediment in the bottle.

John M. wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 7:26 amI love the Pacheca 20 so the 30 year was an easy one to buy to try.

Pacheca is popular in the mom and pop stores vs. the big guys. Give their dry wines a try too!

John M. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 4:34 pm Santa Eufemia 10 Year White
Pacheca 30 Year

Both near Fall River, MA.

Both pretty popular brands in that locale. I like the Pacheca portfolio. Great stuff and well priced.

Are your favorite or recommended non-vintage Portuguese red wines?

So which one is right? '91 or '92?

Mike J. W. wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:46 am

Moses Botbol wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 7:03 am Delaforce 2003 VP.

How is that? I have a few bottles.

Seemed decent, had one glass on a pop and pour last night. Ripe and figs. Smooth spirit to it. I'll get more into it tonight.

Delaforce 2003 VP.

About 1 month ago I opened a 1994 Dow Vintage and it was very ordinary. Not bad but not great either. A fairly simple Port with little fruit and quite mineral. I tasted it when it was opened and after 8 hours of decanting it was still ordinary. I tried to like it though (I knew what I was drinking)...

1991 Warre VP. Initial pop and pour was a bit medicinal. Wife thought it tasted like Dimetapp, but I was a bit more complimentary. We'll see how it evolves tonight.

First step in diminishing property ownership rights. These types of laws are springing up all over the place.

1980 Ferreira Recently acquired it arrived as a leaker (known at auction it had leaked), so stood it up, wrapped top in plastic wrap and gave the bottle some time to settle. Late yesterday afternoon began the decanting process for a dinner party and when I removed the cap/foil there was no cork.......

I can envision underwater storage in the wine business as a way to potentially lower costs on storage.

If you can drop pallets of wine to the seafloor with little worry of theft/damage it could be cost effective vs. on land storage.

Tom Archer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:30 am About twenty seconds of steam directed at that thick plastic capsule is all that it takes to soften it, after which it can be pushed off with ease using the back of a knife.

I put the bottle on its side, padded the neck from underneath and a sharp knife did the job.

1970 Offley Boa Vista VP. A leaker that moved to the front of the queue. Has one of the sphere looking capsules that are a pain to cut off. Tried using the tongs, but neck of the bottle was quite narrow. Tongs rested on the shoulder. Didn't heat high enough to cleave the bottle. Ended up cutting the...

Yes wineries can introduce the flaw. Actually, recently, I've witness a winery filtering/cleaning a wine having TCA from a bad barrel. I could not detect it once it was ''cleaned''. So progress are being made both ways! They sprayed the barrel with Pooph https://i5.walmartimages.com/seo/POOPH-Pet-O...

Nothing beats drinking Madeira out barrel out of Solo Cup and eating Linguica. [cheers.gif] [yahoo.gif] https://photos.smugmug.com/2019/Meridian-Heritage-Museum-20th-Anniversary/i-5gpNkGK/0/c7f94626/XL/Museum-20th-Anniversary%20%281%20of%20120%29-XL.jpg http://feastoftheblessedsacramentcom.ning.com/...

1985 Ferreira. Bottle was perfect. When this vintage is firing on all cylinders, I put at the top 2-3 of the vintage. Top 10 of the decade.

I have a magnum of this been wanting to open... Thanks for the review.