For The Love Of Port

This is my favourite 1980. In the UK prices for these are quite reasonable. I picked up some bottles at auction this year @ £19.60 each.

Here are some brief notes on the tasting. Firstly, as port lovers, you’ll probably want to know about decanting etc. The wines were double-decanted between 3 and 4 hours prior to the tasting. They were poured into the glasses between 30 minutes and immediately prior to the tasting, and the tasting l...

Well done Alex, well put together, and clearly a lot of effort and thought went into this. I enjoyed meeting many port enthusiasts I've not had the pleasure of meeting prior to now, including port legend Roy Hersh himself. decanting times I enjoyed this tasting, though I alway find port particularly...

I'm keen to join something in January / February.

I'm busy right through the week from Friday 4th to Friday 11th November, but I'm free on Thursday 3rd. I'm sorry I'll miss the 6th.

Cheers,
Linden

Fred, Roy, Jason, Thanks you doe the replies. The tasting takes place in a hotel. I'm really not sure whether I can get tongs really hot enough. I think I will stick to using conventional methods, though I have never used an Ah So. I open old wines regularly in my tastings and have developed a bit o...

My favourite is the Dow. Overall this is an undeservedly overlooked vintage. Here are some TNs from a tasting in November 2004: Dow’s 1980 97/100 Deep, youthful semi-opaque ruby; spicy with quite distinctive aromatics with medicinal-edged fruit, sweet, and very intriguing; really delicious, exotic f...

In November I will conduct a 10-vintage tasting of Taylor's Vintage Port. The vintages will be 2000, 1994, 1992, 1977, 1963, 1948, 1945, 1935, 1927, and 1908. While I have opened numerous ports back to the '63s without any trouble (i.e. conventionally), I have never opened anything older - except a ...