For The Love Of Port

Roy Hersh wrote: By the way, how far away from Jackson, MI are you?

We are about 45 minutes east; most of it a straight shot on the expressway.

Very nice cellar Peter, and welcome. Just what is in the plenum box? The cellar: If every shelf and every rack were full, it would hold a little better than 2000 bottles. I have a little over 900 bottles currently (although we went through 11 bottles last night while playing cards, so there's a few...

The only kids we have who are interested in port are twin boys born in 1966. Lucky them! I think they will have to do their own birth-year port buying, although I did give them each a bottle on their 40th birthday. Our daughter, a little younger (1970) doesn't much care for port. The only ports I ha...

Who was Warrior?

I did Google, and If I understand the page properly, Warrior was actually the name of Captain Warre's horse.
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Hi all, Recent joiner here. I've been drinking wine seriously since some time in the '80s and drinking ports seriously only this century. My "regular" port has been Warre's Nimrod (now, sadly, no longer produced, although I have nearly four cases left in my cellar). The best ports that I'v...

Warre's has ceased production of Nimrod. I have this on the authority of Rupert Symington, representative of the company that owns Warre's. When I first heard rumors of this, I had my "wine guy" check with local distributors and found that there were 13 cases left in SE Michigan. I bought ...

Nimrod Now there is a bad name for any wine product :lol: Why? Nimrod was an ancient King of Sumerians who "was a mighty hunter before the Lord". Check out Wikipedia for "Nimrod". Or are you thinking it is a silly name because Bugs Bunny says once or twice of Elmer Fudd: "W...