For The Love Of Port

Enjoyed a Fonseca 1977 and a Cockburn 1947

Disclosure: I 'm the NY distributor for Oscar but I wanted to let you guys hear the news that Oscars can be found in NY at Cafe China! http://www.cafechinanyc.com/ They are a michelin starred restaurant in NY specializing in sichuan cuisine! His LBV pairs beautifully with the spicy food. We just mis...

Roy Hersh wrote:Hi Oscar,

For people who are somewhat new to Port, how would you advise them to spend their budget on beginning a foundation of a Port cellar? Let's say $1500 USD, or equivalent Euro value as the budget.

the stupid fridge cost 1500$ already

i like what sandy's drinking

2006 quevedo lbv decanting for a tasting tomorrow

Glenn E. wrote: Aged tawnies are my favorite Ports, but it seems like that would also be the most difficult part of the business to get started.

if you wanna buy 5 cases, I make it happen for you

They like spicy and sweet. Is Port a possibility? Could be, but we need to go there, present them our wines and help them to educate their palate to the taste of the Douro wines. The earlier we do it the better are our chances that they like our wines in the future. Jeff G. can also give us some id...

I agree iwth the tawny sentiment

when the port ages so long it turns to a tawny, I find it a bit unappealing that i'd rather drink a colheita or a tawny instead.

This might be of interest to some people and I thought it might be informative if you elaborated on it. But Quevedo actually owns / co owns 8 different vineyards. Quinta Vale d'Agodinho Quinta da Alegria Vale do Nedo Quinta das Olgas are all along various parts of the Douro With 4 others to the sout...

Al B. wrote:I've just found out who the guest will be - excellent news! I'll spend some time thinking of questions to ask Oscar ... like what is the earliest date Quevedo could submit a sample of 2011 vintage wine to the IVDP for approval as a Vintage Port?

surprisingly I have the same exact Q.

mm the 78 fonseca says guimareans on my label

I'm sure you'll get many different opinions

but for me the taylor 2009 is a stand out

and if you want to follow ratings the dow 2007 got the 100pts

oo, easy one for me.

Anything with the word Port in it!

it's like picking favorite kids

As it was a slow weekend i see it

it's in a link called "photo contest" on the top

it's submit a cookie that pairs well with the fonseca bin27

Not to be overly cynical but I agree with Andy that I can't find anything related to the contest.

And because of such, now it gets relegated into the category of "not worth the trouble" for a 11$ btl of wine.

That's not really an issue Eric. DRC people know the numbers and they're faked all the time. It's quite easy to have a number on the bottle along with the serial. both combined would make a key. if you dont have the bottle you don't know the number and you can't randomly guess a serial. only way to ...

IDVP wants each bottle to be laser etched with a unique number scheme for better tracking and quality control. Actually, I have no evidence and the only reason is to stir the pot… :evil: \alot of the big cult wines in cali do this. Harlan even lets you check the numbers online to validate if it's v...

I've very much quite enjoyed the 67 taylor's

however there was a wintergreen note that people found offputting.

we did 2-3 hours decant and it certainly didn't go anywhere by the end of dinner 3 hours later.

i would most certainly request that they be kept.

It was very cool when we found a mislabeled cork with a 1970 warres with its celo on to send Dominic Symington an email and confirm that the celo did indeed match a 1970 warres and it was just a miscorking in the line.

On a bottle that young it seems like it would either have to be a defective t-stopper (it does happen), or some rather extreme heat variation that caused a pressure leak. It just doesn't seem like storage could be a factor on a bottle that young. (The earliest a 2007 could have been bottled was 201...

I'd personally just buy a bottle of each to try them all out.

1995 was a great year
1996 was good,
1997 was a generally declared vp year
1998 was decent too (early pickers got good but I'm not sure if niepoort was one of them)