For The Love Of Port

As i posted in hte RP BB, Bill, In that week Porto will have one of our biggest fair's, The Essencia do Vinho. There you'll have the oportunity to taste all the wine and port, from the best houses. Almost everyone is there. You can see the program and producers http://www.essenciadovinho.com/default...

I am glad to hear of new investment in the Douro, but horrified to hear of Syrah being planted - even if only experimentally. Not experimentally, since we already have wines in the Douro with Syrah. There are a lot of international grapes in the Douro. Niepoort does some Projects with Riesling and ...

NEWS: I've been told that the IVDP is going to legislate against production of Garrafeira Ports in the near future. Obviously Dirk Niepoort is the only one producing them. Does anybody know WHY this is happening? And ... if so, when? I writed that already had been development towards the ending of ...

Is it 1983?

Nope

I think that's not completely true as i just talked about that last weekend with Dirk. A few time ago there were some movements to end the designation Garrafeira. This movement was held by a port producer. Anyway, the previous President of IVDP Jorge Monteiro, called Dirk and signed the permission t...

Well,

I'm kinda embarrassed to say 95 bottles.

Um abraço Roy, in such dificult times.

Well, In my opinion, the LBV's were, and are, meant (as a product) to be consumed on release or in a near future. They were made to fulfill the urgent need to have a port, vintage style, to be consumed early and consequently not so expensive. Of course that doesn't mean they must be consumed like if...

Thank you all for the responses. It was really enlightning

Those prices are in Euros?

Both of course. Not really now yet what will be opened since i will be in a friends house. But since he is a port producer, i think i will have ports, good ones. But i know what i will bring to New year's eve. José Maria da Fonseca Old Moscatel (1920/30) Quinta do Barão Carcavelos (1940's) 1963 Cock...

They Gaia office was not really an office but a laboratory for wine analysis.
If you are talking about the one that is in the street of were is nowadays the Niepoort warehouse, i think is abandoned for a long time.

This was probably the best Madeira that i ever had. I've been having a lot of Madeiras from 19th century but until now, nothing comparable to this one This was lost in a restaurant and the owner, who i know, just offered this bottle after dinner. And i had to struggle with my friends to keep what wa...

Roy,

The office of Gaia is now closed. I work at the headquarters in Lisbon

Great comments from Tom and Pedro.

Any more thoughts?

Ok, i know this is not the right place to put this question, but since here a lot of people drinks Portuguese Wines, i would like to no your opinion too. I usually do ask myself what's the image you people have on Portuguese wines. I am doing some kind of research about Portuguese Wines image in the...

That's the seal from Junta Nacional do Vinho. This lot, where this bottle belongs, was certified and bottled after 1970 and before 1982, as JNV was renamed for IVV (Instituto da Vinha e do Vinho, wich is were i work).

1870 Malvasia Caves Casa da Calçada
1910 Fajã dos Padres Malvasia
1920 Boal Blandy's

1945 Niepoort Vintage
1963 Noval Nacional Vintage
1927 Niepoort (Handwritten by Dirk's Grandfather)

Fred, you are coming to Portugal?