For The Love Of Port

Perhaps you should lose the labels on the favicon bottles to make them more similar to the main site logo?

Glenn E. wrote:I also have a 1964 Noval Nacional that I will probably save for my retirement party

Be sure to let me know when to book my flight

I am sure there is a 1965 port waiting for me on a special occasion but it never seems to get any closer

If you start watching monster truck racing and waving a confederate flag around you'll end up buried in a peat bog hahaha To clarify: 1. I have been to a Monster Truck race. 2. Daisy Duke - what's not to like? 3. I have been up to my neck in a peat bog. ...but I have always had a soft spot for the ...

Andy Velebil wrote:You do realize football here is with an oblong ball, not a round one?

The first Super Bowl I watched was XVII, the 'skins beat the Dolphins 27-17.

I have watched almost every one since

There is a major crisis! My TVVV09 has evaporated from the decanter

Taylor's Quinta de Vargelas Vinha Velha 2009

Go Seahawks!!

The American definition of porn must be different to what we are used to in the UK.

What I saw was an online dating site. At first I thought it was an enhanced version of the "have you ever made friends through participation on FTLOP?" thread

Roy Hersh wrote:"which wire, the red or the black or green one?"

Did you cut the wrong one this weekend?

{sorry, couldn't resist it}

Great news

At the risk of unintentionally going against Roy's very reasonable request, I think this is possibly the root of why there is some disagreement here... My only experience with crusted port is with the Churchill's. … If you check the Churchill website I think it is quite clear that the crusted port i...

@Mahmoud - I think the you may have overlooked above is that a VP is itself a blend of several components, and that there could easily be an excess of one or more components. These would be vintage-quality but not used to make VP due to deficit of the other components. It is these which I beilieve ...

I have tried twice and been met with sarcasm both times, so I now give up.

Mahmoud Ali wrote:Maybe I wasn't clear or perhaps you misunderstood me.

Did you consider the possibility that you might be wrong?

if we assume that in a declared vintage a producer will want to make as much vintage port as they can, then anything left over, whether for LBV or crusted port, is "not good enough for VP". So we're stalemated there. Mahmoud, That statement isn't normally true. As an example, imagine that...

In 2011 Derek T. wrote:Fonseca
Graham
Noval
Vesuvio

No change.

If what Alex says is true it is perhaps another reason why the category will not expand. There is only so much vintage-quality juice to go around and most will be used to produce VP, LBV and Colheita. The bits and bobs that remain would make very good components for Crusted but would always be of li...

I have heard it on the grapevine that the 1931 and 1963 Nacional Colheitas will only be available in the UK

Hmm... maybe it's just Washington, then. I rarely see the stuff in stores, whether they be grocery stores or wine stores. Or when I do see it, it's usually the case that there's 1 basic ruby and 1 basic tawny amongst 3-5 Ruby Reserves, 1-2 Tawny Reserves, 2-3 LBVs, a couple of 10-yr olds, and a 20-...

You have access to Port that, at the very least, most of us in the US do not. In the US, the lowest level Port that can be found regularly is Ruby Reserve. Some stores do carry a couple of basic rubies and basic tawnies, but generally speaking the Reserve level is our lowest quality Port. Glenn, I ...

What would be relevant would be a list of "the basic stuff none of us here would choose to drink". Your confirmation that you have given a fair tasting to every item on that list is, of course, expected. In March 2012 we had a tasting of the types of Port I am talking about. These bottles...