For The Love Of Port

Thank you very much for your warm welcome on the forum, It seems to me, there not much, but a little evidence, maybe more than average, niepoort vintages from ´85 - ´97 got VA problems. Maybe 1997 the most. Does it make any difference, if I let the vintages age further more? Does the risk of VA ries...

Hello, I purchased the book "Port and the Douro" by Richard Mayson. He claims, that there were several shippers who had problems with bacteria in their vintage ports from mid 80´s to the mid of the 90´s. He thinks, that over-fertilisation, poor hygiene and low acidity in the vines let to h...