For The Love Of Port

The blue of the capsule reminded me of Taylor. Roy? Looks like Warre's LBV to me. The number is incomplete. If all it came down to was a six-digit number then there would be a limit of 999,999 bottles. There are two letters above and two digits below. The two digits look like 02 and the first lette...

Warre's Heritage Ruby - notes taken last month but thought that I'd stick them in to compare with Al-B's notes: OK, time to test it, straight after opening. Dark ruby with an amber tinge, quite thick. Nose of orange peel and caramel, with a few raisins. Mouth, it becomes more grapefruit, more dry th...

Gordon Brown (texture like Sun), will not be the first Scot to be PM. There have been several Scots that have been PM and many more that have been Party leaders - John Smith, Menzies-Campbell and Chuckie Kennedy recently. Tony Blair, himself, is actually a Scot - born there and lived there in his fo...

At the BBR tasting two years ago we did a direct comparison between 1970 and 1977. In my opinion 1970 was better consistently across all four producers - Fonseca, Graham, Dow and Taylor. This wasn't helped by the Dow 1977 being corked and the Graham 1977 being musty. According to everyone else the s...

Vat-Aged Port. Those that drink it could be Vapids.

The idea is to distinguish between the two even if the names mean exactly the same thing, whilst moving away from the name Late-Bottled Vintage which has been tarnished. The difference being that PAV is unfiltered whilst LBV is filtered. It also has a catchy abbreviation and we can all be Pavvers.

"Reserve" says "Ruby" to me, which will put off Portheads.

However, it does start to go in the right direction. I think 'Vintage' has to be in the name but "Crusted" is too old-fashioned and fusty. How about "Pipe-Aged Vintage"?

Alex , Was the 'Right Bank' comment said in jest (just my thick igneous rock head! :D ), or is there a river and either side tastes slightly different? I dont know much about Bordeaux, but that intrigued me. Alan Yep - the Gironde. On the Left bank of the Gironde the soil is more gravelly and takes...

I'm not avoiding Graham and Taylor - just their LBVs. I used to drink them only and have not bought them since I started drinking better stuff, including better LBVs.

No, like the Jackson 5 we are ABC around here too. My ancient method was quite easy - CCFC then anyone but Leeds. Then MU came back in after relegation (which nobody laughed about, honest Guv). So it was CCFC then anyone but Leeds and Man U, oh and horrible, boring Arsenal. Followed by anyone but Le...

tpettinger wrote: I have long-suspected that we are of similar taste Alan, let's see what your notes are like compared to my own.

That's a dubious honour, he's a Man U fan. Are you of similar stature? Alan is 7'2" and made of various igneous rocks.

Warning - thread drift I've never rubbished Warrior. I think it is a more than adequate entry-level Ruby. I think that the 'Heritage' is better and I can currently get it cheaper, but no dissing Warrior from this angle. Cruz VP is dreadful though. It's not the body, it's the taste and the nose of S...

Uh oh, confusion. This is a TN not in the TN section... so we can reply to it! This is why Cockburn's has such a bad reputation amongst the British members. We were subjected to this sort of stuff and the rubies by Cockburn as if this was all there was to Port. It's at its best when it has half a do...

John, Welcome to the boards. There is little or no sniping on this board (except in fun) so you should be able to settle in nicely. No problems with newbies, just ask and somebody will have a good answer for you. What are your other wine interests? Most of us drink stuff other than Port as well, so ...

"I suggest the best way forward is to be a broad church at the outset"

That's a bit limiting, surely there should be some guys in there as well.

Picked up as a side issue when hunting down Warre's LBVs at Asda. Came in at £5 per bottle, so I really should have picked up more than the six, but disappointment at the lack of Warre's left me in a poor frame of mind. This one was taken up to the Lakes for a night-cap last week. Still got a third ...

Does nobody else play on other boards? 1. The 'TN:' is surely redundant in a TN section; 2. Scores are always optional, it is better to have the notes than the numbers you Parkerite score-whores; 3. Replies to a TN are useful to the original poster and other viewers; 4. Surely leaving it up to a par...

Derek Turnbull wrote:

KillerB wrote:Statistician here - sorry but you cannot do the bottle age thingy.

We can and we will

Derek

If you are under the impression that your wine has aged by one year in 32 hours then you are either in possession of a TARDIS or a psychological disorder.

On another thread it was noted that unfiltered LBV gets mixed up with ordinary LBV which retails at about half the price. We now need gto come up with something new which we can present to the Port trade to help them market it better. I am sure that they will show their appreciation, in the only way...

Yes - decant your unfiltered and crusties. The decanting is to get rid of the flotsam and jetsam that are hanging around.

I like tawnies.

I agree that unfilterd LBV needs a new name. I think that we should start a thread on it. Ermmmm... OK, I will.