For The Love Of Port

Red Aaron wrote: ↑Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:30 pm 1996 Belo Wine Company Vintage Port, 375ml
1987 Beringer Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Port
1995 Dow's Quinta do Bomfim, 375ml
1991 Fonseca Guimaraens
1995 Graham's Malvedos
1977 Messias Quinta do Cachao
2016 Quinta da Romaneira

Would love any comments about these bottles. Cause this was blindly groping in the dark LOL.

An odd ball port selection. The should all be fun to try.

Moses Botbol wrote: ↑Tue Nov 08, 2022 9:05 am

Red Aaron wrote: ↑Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:30 pm 1996 Belo Wine Company Vintage Port, 375ml
1987 Beringer Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Port
1995 Dow's Quinta do Bomfim, 375ml
1991 Fonseca Guimaraens
1995 Graham's Malvedos
1977 Messias Quinta do Cachao
2016 Quinta da Romaneira

Would love any comments about these bottles. Cause this was blindly groping in the dark LOL.

An odd ball port selection. The should all be fun to try.

Yeah, totally. Just looking at the cheaper things and random things.

Just received a big order from earlier this fall:

4 x DR Very Old White (their 50 Year Old)
4 x DR L70
2 x Quinta do Mourao 40 Year Old White
1 x Quinta do Mourao 50 Year Old White
1 x Quinta do Mourao 50 Year Old Tawny
2 x Quinta do Mourao Mother Wine of the 30 (i.e. the old Tonel #9 1972 Colheita)
4 x 1969 Vista Alegre Colheita
1 x 1950 Vista Alegre Colheita
1 x 1940 Vista Alegre Colheita Branco
1 x Quevedo Prestige Advent Calendar
1 x Quevedo Connoisseur pack
1 x Quevedo Old White tasting pack
1 x Quevedo Varietal tasting pack

You got your Quevedo already?! Mine appear to still be in Portugal.

Eric Ifune wrote: ↑Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:22 pm You got your Quevedo already?! Mine appear to still be in Portugal.

We shipped differently because we had this larger order already queued up.

Glenn E. wrote: ↑Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:03 pm Just received a big order from earlier this fall:


2 x Quinta do Mourao 40 Year Old White
1 x Quinta do Mourao 50 Year Old White

So jealous of these whites. I just got some 30 year olds in Penna--on "clearance" for $75/bottle which I felt was a decent price (had been $125-$130). EIther you have to come for another Crossword Tourney or I've got to come to Seattle--been too long!

Last Friday I paid a visit to the Portweinmesse in Leverkusen (Germany), organised by Axel Probst. Great tastings, with many young vintages and some older colheita's.
At the end of the tasting Rita Braga (Mourão) still had two bottles left, and she was so kind to sell them to me:
- S. Leonardo 40 years white (0,5 l @ € 90,00)
- S. Leonardo 30 years tawny (0,5l @ € 55,00).

By the way, Rita Braga, Elisabete Almeida (Agri-Roncão), Dirk Niepoort and George Sandeman all send their regards to the participants of the 2021 PHT!

1987 Niepoort VP

Porto Morgado 10 Years Old - $10.99!

1963 Graham's VP

1987 Andrew Quady Quady's Starboard
2004 Peltier Station USB
1997 Sandeman Vau Vintage
2000 Warre's

Another oddball group.

Fonseca 1970
Fonseca 1977

I will probably open (for the second time) the Fonseca 1970 during the holidays. the first time it was in 2015 and to this day it is the best Port I have drunk in my life.

LOUISSS J wrote:Fonseca 1970
Fonseca 1977

I will probably open (for the second time) the Fonseca 1970 during the holidays. the first time it was in 2015 and to this day it is the best Port I have drunk in my life.

70 is awesome. Enjoy!

77 has a lot of bottle variation. Hopefully yours shows well.

12 x 1985 Quinta do Crasto VP to be split with John M. and a few others. $29 a bottle.

Croft Reserve Ruby
Cockburn's Finest Reserve Ruby (50th anniversary box, w/ 2 glasses for only $20 at Maloco's)
Fonseca Terra Bella Reserve Ruby
Quinta de V. da Maria Reserve Ruby
2013 Delaforce LBV
2013 Quinta de Pacheca LBV
2013 Quinta do Portal LBV
2016 Barao de Vilar Vintage Port, only $42.99 in owbox, couldn't resist

I may have a port buying addiction, but I really think I'm done for the year now.

Lucas S wrote:Croft Reserve Ruby
Cockburn's Finest Reserve Ruby (50th anniversary box, w/ 2 glasses for only $20 at Maloco's)
Fonseca Terra Bella Reserve Ruby
Quinta de V. da Maria Reserve Ruby
2013 Delaforce LBV
2013 Quinta de Pacheca LBV
2013 Quinta do Portal LBV
2016 Barao de Vilar Vintage Port, only $42.99 in owbox, couldn't resist

I may have a port buying addiction, but I really think I'm done for the year now.

Nice mix. The Fonseca TB is pretty good.

And done buying…yeah, ok

Lucas S wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 2:45 am Croft Reserve Ruby
Cockburn's Finest Reserve Ruby (50th anniversary box, w/ 2 glasses for only $20 at Maloco's)
Fonseca Terra Bella Reserve Ruby
Quinta de V. da Maria Reserve Ruby
2013 Delaforce LBV
2013 Quinta de Pacheca LBV
2013 Quinta do Portal LBV
2016 Barao de Vilar Vintage Port, only $42.99 in owbox, couldn't resist

I may have a port buying addiction, but I really think I'm done for the year now.

What's "owbox"?

Mike J. W. wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 8:34 am What's "owbox"?

Original wooden box. Not a case, but a wooden box with a plastic sliding window for a single bottle.

Picked up that B. de Vilar at the Seabra that has a liquor store attached to it. That's also where I found the Pacheca LBV which I think is fairly rare around here.

I went to Maloco as you suggested btw, thanks for the tip. The $20 Cockburn Reserve Ruby set they had is a great gift for the uninitiated imo. I think they have a couple more.

6 X Morgado 10 Years Old Tawny (By Sogrape)

2 x 2009 Warre's LBV