For The Love Of Port

Thanks Andy, I will. Jim

Since I have never had any colheitas I will be buying one or both of the following 375 ml size that I saw at KL wines: 1990 Kopke ($ 32) and/or 1991 Dona Matilde ($ 25), my question is--Do I decant them for several hours like vintage port or "pop and pour"? Thanks

Will there be a Port tasting at the Paso Robles event too? Thanks

I keep a log of the cellar location for each wine. I keep tasting notes for each on 5 by 7 cards. I place bottles in any open cardboard box slot. Tom's organizational skills are impressive!

Opened 9/27/11 Light garnet color. On opening low intensity cherries, plum, allspice nose; soft, watery, low intensity plum and mocha flavors, good balance, slightly hot finish 1 1/2 hour- lighter cherry, plum, allspice nose, slight mustiness to cherry, plum flavors, good balance and integration 2 1...

Opened 9/27/11; Deep garnet color. On opening closed, sweet cassis nose, soft, clean plum, mocha, blackberry flavors, very integrated, no alcohol (alc) heat, soft finish 1 1/2 hour-lighter, sweeter blackberry, cassis nose, flavors of plum, cassis, mocha, licorice, good body and structure, a little a...

Just don't drink lots of port before you go hunting!

Marc-welcome. I have not had many of these so I will only offer some suggestions. How many total port tasters/drinkers will be at the tasting? The more people and wines the harder it is to control/organize/manage the tasting. How many fortified wines will you be serving? I suggest limiting the numbe...

One 750 ml bottle of Fonseca 1985 $ 86
One 750 ml bottle of Grahams 1985 $ 84

Being a curious northern californian with time on his hands I visited this location. It is a warehouse with great temp control but not used to on-site retail sales. Will call pickups OK. They let me purchase a Fonseca 85 and Grahams 85 for the prices shown on Roy's post during my visit. Great folks....

No. I buy selectively and share indiscriminately but never sell. I do not buy large quantities of any one port.

I keep 60 cases offsite. Costs $ 14 a case for a year. Stored in temperature controlled lockers that hold 30 cases each. My collection is 50% port and the rest is mostly red table wine or German whites. I also would like to say that it is all DRC and First Growths but I have not bought any of that s...

The 100 point system is as good as any other imho But the really important aspect is the written description. The number can get your attention but the description (and knowing the reviewer's bias) is more important to me. So going to a retail shop and seeing all the post-its with rating numbers is ...

Monique
If they are offering it in one bottle lots and it is not too expensive I am sure we would love to hear your opinion of this wine. Unfortunately I have never tried it. Regards. Jim

I second Derek's counsel. You have bought 6 bottles so you can afford to open one now and take good notes on the experience. From these notes (even though you have stated your "newness" to port in previous threads) you will be able to judge when to open the next one. For ports I suggest er...

Decanted 6 hours, tasted consistent over two days. Deep ruby with slightly red edge, decanted clear. Excellent heavy cassis, blackberry smoky wood nose; soft mulberry, cassis, toffee, licorice flavors with some noticeable alcohol, fine long finish that shows signs of balance but is still too strong ...

375 ml, 19% ABV, $ 12 @ Wine Club, San Jose, CA, bottled 2009. unfiltered, full cork closure. On opening intense blackberry, black currant with some licorice aromas; sweet, syrupy, clean blackberry flavors, very balanced to light spirit presence with slight tannins in the long finish. D+1-more close...

I am solidly on the side of aged VPs, as much age as I can get without losing the fruit. My goal is Balance! I love the great body/great balance that the best producers provide but am solidly in favor of diversifying my producer experiences. I tend to dislike the ones that show too much alcohol. I k...

1994 Osbourne LBVP, some younger Fonseca and Taylor LBVPs but I am waiting for them to mellow out a little more.

I am solidly on the side of "Portugal only" labeling for Ports. The consumer's expectation is that their "port" will have a flavor profile similar to Portuguese ports. Since many fortified wines throughout the world use a variety of grapes the flavors vary just as widely. As poin...