For The Love Of Port

I have one bottle left from 1863. Unfortunately I have had all 1851

Sten from Malmö Sweden

Sten,

Who is the producer?

Additionally, what 1851's have you tried ... and your impressions?

Hello Roy, Thank you for asking. I became very happy!!
I have had a few bottles of this 1963 but I had to go into the cellar to see the house. Unfortunately it is bottle in Denmark and bought long ago. A Danish Wine merchant had bottled it. But!! I found in my cellar then just beside that bottle another bottle which I hade forgotten. Quinta de Romariz 1834! I was very happy when I did this discovery.So thank you for asking!!

1851 was a bottler of Ferreira. It was still quite lovely when I had it a few years ago

My oldest Colheita I have enjoyed is from 1815 bottled by W. Lima who I believe was the husband of Dona Antónia Ferreira son’s only daughter so I have always believed that it was a Ferreira, but I do not know

Kind Regards

Sten
Malmö
Sweden

1853 Whitwhams Millennium Colheita. Great stuff, have four bottles lft. Lots of debate whether this Colheita was topped off at some point. Very well may've, but that does not deter it from being a real marvel.

Hello!

Do colheita ports withstand such a long time? I thought only vintages could be kept in the long term.

João Franco

For me it is an empty bottle of Calem 1964 (bottled in 97) purchased at calem years ago and opened a few years latter on this side of the atlantic.

Old coheitas are rare in this city. Around here old colheitas are from the 80's and 90's with two exceptions priced as exceptions.


Paul

Joao Franco wrote:Do colheita ports withstand such a long time? I thought only vintages could be kept in the long term.

The answer is: it depends.

Obviously, if they're kept in cask for that long they just continue to get better and better. Extra time aging in wood is almost always a good thing for Colheitas.

Colheitas can and do keep for decades after they've been bottled, but most people will tell you that they're best consumed as close to their bottling date as possible. Dirk Niepoort says that his Colheitas easily keep and age well in bottle, but he's really the exception on the producer side.

I have had many Colheitas with >20 years of age in bottle and have found most of them to be fantastic. I'm sure they were different than they were immediately after bottling... but then the exact same thing is true of Vintage Port. I tend to like the way Colheita ages in bottle, so for me it can be an improvement. Others do not like the way it ages, so for them it's generally a bad thing.

Right now I have a couple of cases of Colheitas in my cellar slowly aging. I don't have any particular plan to deliberately age any of them, but I'm also not worried about them aging in bottle. None of mine are all that old, though. They were all bottled in the mid-2000s so currently have less than 10 years of bottle age.

Krohn 1955

1895 Ferreira Duque de Braganza

at the moment it's Graham's single harvest 1952....but the Taylor (Krohn) 1863 will soon be added to my collection


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