Making Your Own Port

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Todd,

They are going to send me a bottle made to that recipe.
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Very nice.

I can imagine only a few things much more cool than sipping a glass of port that you yourself helped to blend!!! :D

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Tim Swaback wrote:I live in "a cold, godforsaken country" as well Alex. Chilly Minnesota. I have the advantage of being a horticulturalist though. Im working on producing concord grapes (which i think won't make it) and frontenac grapes. The cold winters really hinder any "true" port varieties, but the frontenac was created by the U of M specifically for wine making.

http://www.maes.umn.edu/MNHardy/components/grapes.asp
http://www.grapes.umn.edu/frontenac/

I dont know what characteristics port varieties have over regular wine varieties, but im hoping that in 5-6 years ill have a small crop of frontenac to "portify". Until then I have a few connections to get my hands on small quantities to test out a few mothods.

Let me know if you want to try growing!

Tim

it's a bit past 5-6 years. i haven't searched other threads so pardon if you've posted. how did your grapes and port turn out, Tim?
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