White Port

William Strong · Post by **William Strong** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:50 am

I am going to Porto for a couple of days next week and have very little knowledge of white port. I intend to taste some of course, but which would good examples of both dry and lagrima, to buy (without being too expensive)? I don't see much white port here in the UK.

Derek T. · Post by **Derek T.** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:41 am

William,

If you visit the lodges in Gaia all of them will offer you a white port to taste and will have some for sale. My experience was that most are fairly similar and not to my taste. Most of the lodges I visited suggested using white port to make long cool spritzer style drinks with ice, soda/tonic and lemon in the summer rather than drinking on their own. I'd rather have a G&T 8)

However, I believe some of the lesser known houses produce some older, higher quality white ports that you may be able to find in the shops in Porto/Gaia. If you do find one - expect to pay a small fortune for it!

Please post back with notes from your trip.

Derek

Post by **Roy Hersh** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:16 pm

Whatever you do ... find VINOLOGIA and ask for Gustavo or Jean-Phillipe and you'll get to try as many White Ports as you can keep down.