For The Love Of Port

So I think we are looking to taste a Vintage Port for this coming month. I like the idea of Tom to taste one from the 1991 vintage.

Now I want to know if you all want to taste the same or taste the one you want.

Gives your suggestion too for the chosen one!

Fred,
i choose any VP of my choosing. The only reason is I can only locate the Dow's 1991 VP near me. as I have no '91s in my cellar. I still can't have wine shipped to me as it is near 100 degrees here in L.A. the past couple days.

I'd vote any 91 VP you of your choice, since it'll probably be hard for everyone to find the same producer.

I voted for the personal choice as specific VP's are more difficult to find in single bottles than say a a Tawny or LBV.

However, we could all post a list of which 91's we each have to see if we can limit the scope of the VT to 1, 2 or 3 shippers to allow some comparisons of the same wines. For starters I have Graham's and Gould Campbell 91's. What does everyone else have in the cellar?

Derek

OK - Cockburn is my first choice, but I could also tackle Warre or Graham.

Tom

All I can get is Dow's

If people are finding it difficult to locate 1991's could we open this up to include any VP from the 91/92 split declaration?

Derek

Two good years followed each other, but they were not that much alike...

Tom

I'd Focus on 91 so far no one spoke about problem getting one bottle. I'll probably go for Warre's.

I'm (temporarily) back in the loop and will try to take part in the next virtual tasting.

I've got Gould Campbell, Grahams, Niepoort, Vesuvio and Warre.

However, as an alternative to trying to concentrate on a handful of producers, we could go to the other extreme and try to cover as many producers as we can - get an idea of how the vintage as a whole is developing.

But I'll go with the flow.

Alex

Alex seems to have come up with a suggestion that is better than either of mine so I would like to change my opinion (a rare occurence!) and vote for a 91 horizontal VT 8)

Derek

OK, so far the line-up is:

Andy - Dow
Me - Cockburn
Fred - Warre

Derek, Alex, which do you want to go for?

- Who else is in?

Tom

I'll take Graham's

Derek

I also have a recent TN for Gould Campbell so could post 2 TN's to widen the coverage of shippers.

Derek

I'll take Krohns VP, 1991.

Jay

In which case I will take the Vesuvio.....although I would be happy to switch to the Niepoort (or Gould Campbell) if someone else chooses to taste the Vesuvio.

Alex

I'll take the Noval

This is shaping up to be a very good VT this month. I can't wait to read the reviews.

So far we have...........

Dow's.............Andy
Cockburn's.....Tom
Graham's........Me
Jrohn..............Jay
Vesuvio..........Alex
Noval.............Simon
Warre............Fred

Gould Campbell - Me from a very recent note unless anyone else takes it

Is there anyone else out there with 91's sitting waiting to be tatsed?

Derek

I have a half bottle of Pocas '91, and I might be able to write a line or two.

Thomas