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- Tue Sep 05, 2023 9:50 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
- Replies: 5779
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Re: What have you opened this week?
I keep some singles of empty bottles to line a shelf going down to the wine cellar. Has to be old and cool enough to make the cut. There's not a set criteria for what I keep. Old helps, but I've opened old bottles with a simple typed label that don't make the cut. Cool looking, did I really enjoy t...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: 650 year anniversary of the Anglo-Portugal alliance.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2100
Re: 650 year anniversary of the Anglo-Portugal alliance.
Churchill noted the earlier year when he addressed Parliament during WWII announcing the base lease in the Azores. Since I went to Winston Churchill High School, I'm going with that one. But I'll drink to either year.
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:42 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: 650 year anniversary of the Anglo-Portugal alliance.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2100
Re: 650 year anniversary of the Anglo-Portugal alliance.
The Treaty of Windsor dates to 1386, but it was preceded by the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373.Alan Gardner wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 4:30 pm Very interesting - particulaly as it is only the 637th Anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:42 am
- Forum: Portugal Travel, Food & Offline Planner
- Topic: Housing vs. Short Term Rentals in Portugal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1765
Re: Housing vs. Short Term Rentals in Portugal
Yes, while that article was focused on the hostel thing, I think the implications will be interesting across the board. What really surprised me about this was the magnitude of the step taken given that it hasn't been all that long since the last regulations were passed. Portugal already passed laws...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 5:01 pm
- Forum: Portugal Travel, Food & Offline Planner
- Topic: Housing vs. Short Term Rentals in Portugal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1765
Housing vs. Short Term Rentals in Portugal
Well, a new law awaiting Presidential approval looks to shake things up: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/portugal-housing-law-hostels/index.html It will really be interesting to see what happens to costs (if) when this goes through. It might make for prime conditions to buy something if you aren'...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 9:31 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
- Replies: 4172
- Views: 848251
Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
I was monitoring that one for a few weeks, but wasn't sure I wanted a magnum I wouldn't open for a while. I'm glad it went to a good home, was tremendous deal. According to Roy's forecast, there is only 48 of them! Awesome pickup. Yes, it was hard to pass up at that price. I see a magnum dinner in ...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 3:11 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
- Replies: 4172
- Views: 848251
Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
2011 Quevedo VP, magnum
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 9:51 am
- Forum: Portuguese Table Wine and Tasting Notes
- Topic: What Portuguese wines have you opened this week
- Replies: 597
- Views: 155508
Re: What Portuguese wines have you opened this week
Two 2020 wines from Soalheiro. The Alvarinho was very good, the Granit excellent (for white wines).
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 9:19 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
- Replies: 5779
- Views: 1120549
Re: What have you opened this week?
Visiting my parents, we picked up a 2016 Taylor LBV and opened it to go with a dark chocolate dessert. Very nice wine, and a good pairing.
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 12:00 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Is TCA in corks going down?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2146
Re: Is TCA in corks going down?
True, but a winery infection is rarer than a cork infection, and typically is a byproduct of an earlier cork infection. So Amorim's TCA-free corks should go a long way toward eliminating this scourge and my superpower will be far less useful. :lol: Agreed. I wonder what percent happens at the winer...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:17 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Is TCA in corks going down?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2146
Re: Is TCA in corks going down?
Even if a cork leaves Amorim free of TCA, that doesn't guarantee that it can't be introduced at the winery.Perhaps more importantly, in 2021, Amorim, the world’s largest supplier of closures, announced that it had added a step to its production that would eliminate cork taint from all of its corks.
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:00 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Is TCA in corks going down?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2146
Re: Is TCA in corks going down?
With the trailing ml:
https://www.northwestwinereport.com/202 ... -more.html
https://www.northwestwinereport.com/202 ... -more.html
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:36 am
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 VP Horizontal Tasting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1899
Re: 1994 VP Horizontal Tasting
I know that storage etc. impacts any individual bottle, but it still never fails to surprise me at the diversity of scores. No one is wrong with the scores because the factors involved in the quality of any one bottle are innumerable. And personal taste is an issue. In many blind tastings I regular...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:52 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
- Replies: 5779
- Views: 1120549
Re: What have you opened this week?
1985 Smith Woodhouse VP
- Sat Jul 15, 2023 6:33 pm
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 VP Horizontal Tasting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1899
1994 VP Horizontal Tasting
Memorial Day weekend I hosted several dinners at my home along with nine other FTLOPers and people I've met on Roy's tours. I've hosted 12 people before, but 10 works a bit better in my dining room, and that gives everyone a nice pour of Port. On Saturday we tasted 1994 Ports . These were tasted bli...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
- Replies: 4172
- Views: 848251
Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
1x Taylor 20 Year Old
Time for a Port-Tawnic, although actually this was at auction and I won't have it shipped until September.
Time for a Port-Tawnic, although actually this was at auction and I won't have it shipped until September.
- Mon Jul 10, 2023 11:21 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Profile of Dona Antónia Adelaide Ferreira
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1091
Re: Profile of Dona Antónia Adelaide Ferreira
Yes, I found it pretty light on details. But any cool Port story in a non-Port media I'll appreciate, in particular when it doesn't have inaccuracies that make me cringe.
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: Profile of Dona Antónia Adelaide Ferreira
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1091
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 8:46 pm
- Forum: Portugal Travel, Food & Offline Planner
- Topic: Wineries near Lisbon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1801
Re: Wineries near Lisbon
Ahh, that public transport makes some of the Colares wineries a little difficult, but the Coopertivo may be an option, depending on the state of the roof: https://arcolares.com/en/ And then there is Carcavelos: https://www.villaoeiras.com/PT I took the train out, and then had to get a ride to the wi...
- Mon Jun 12, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
- Replies: 4172
- Views: 848251
Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
Whoa, a "last again" 1927 Niepoort? https://www.winespectator.com/articles/the-last-bottle-on-earth-41686 :lol: Around 2003 I made my own wine from concentrated Carménère from Chile's Maipo Valley. I opened the last bottle on Saturday. I'll venture to guess that was more of a Last Bottle ...