For The Love Of Port

All this talk of Colheitas (as well as tasting some amazing ones in the Douro) has prompted me to start stocking up my cellar with some Colheitas.

While people in one of the other posts have mentioned the best Colheita and the oldest Colheita they have tasted, I was wondering what your favorite Colheitas are for:

Buying to drink "now" (whatever your definition of "now" is)
Buying to hold 5-10 years
Buying to hold 10+ years
Best Values

Looking forward to the feedback!

Stewart

Stewart

Ramos Pinto 1937 looks like the best value I have seen lately. For the quality the Dalva 52 is at a good price point as well. As you know already, both are drinking very well right now! If you like them young, the Niepoort 94 is not expensive at all and pretty good....I cannot recall exactly, but I think mine recently cost <$30.

Some of the Kopke is priced pretty low, but I could not suggest if it's good value or not, as I have not had any of them (which I plan to rectify this weekend). My recollection of our visit to Kopke was that our companions suggested 52, 57, and 38 as some of the best Kopke years.

Personally, I would buy to drink now, but "now" may end up being up a few years for me. I had not really though of buying on purpose to cellar. I was mostly concerned about building up too big of a collection and then not getting to them "in time", which Roy suggested would be unlikely to be a problem.

I would be very interested to hear what people think about buying to hold for 5-10 years or more, as I could be very happy with a cellar which is half VP and half Colheita, along with the odd Madeira and Tokaij!

Jay

Jay