For The Love Of Port

I will keep this as a "sticky" topic all month, meaning it will stay at the very top of the Port Forum.

You may choose just one, (like a Lay's Potato Chip) or put together a short list of your faves so far. Given that the whole month of June is part of the first half of 2009, this will remain in place until then.

I think it would be great to see which you've enjoyed the most. I know that some folks will include bottlings from our FTLOP Gala weekend from late Jan. of this year, but I'd also encourage those of you who were not there to include Ports you've had too.

This should be fun!

Well so far for me that award goes to the 1947 Noval VP we had at the 2009 Port Gala. I know a lot of people liked the 1935 Sandeman better, but to me the Sandeman felt like it was over the hill while the Noval really seemed to be at its peak.

I haven't had any truly spectacular Tawnies yet in 2009. The 1966 Kopke and the mystery Kopke "Roy Hersh blend" that we had at the 2009 Port Gala were both fantastic, but to me were a step below the 1947 Noval.

I have to said Quinta do Estanho vintage 1997, on the first place for the vintages, followed closely by Dow's Quinta do Bomfim 1998 and Graham's vintage 1994.
Tawnies, are Barro's Colheita 1963 and Kopke Colheita 1977.
These are my choice.

Carlos Rodriguez wrote:Kopke Colheita 1977.

Ah yes, I do love this one

1960 Ferreira. Followed closely by a tasty 1954 Sandeman.

Roy,
You know it's got to be the 1863 Krohn in barrel!

I finally cracked into my stash of '94 Vesuvio....and that is my Port of the year so far.

Wow... tough question. I've had so many this year. I'd say all the Krohn barrel samples - the 1863 Colheita, followed by the 1896 White colheita.

As for Vintage Port - the 1947 Noval was spectacular.
-Dave-

For me, it has been a 1976 Porto Rocha colheita. It was sumptuous, and I savored every last drop of the bottle. (Curiously, a 1976 Kopke colheita paled in comparison.)

1942 Niepoort VP, Tasted early in January, it was simply amazing. 3 hours after the initial pour it was becoming so younger. The complexity, flavours profile and lenght of this Port was exceptional.

There were quite a few nice ones, but Fonseca 66 and Dow 70 probably made the biggest impression.

Ronald Wortel wrote:There were quite a few nice ones, but Fonseca 66 and Dow 70 probably made the biggest impression.

I'm glad to hear that the 1970 Dow's was pleasing to you, for I just picked up a couple bottles of it.

Great buy Jonathan, unfortunately, this was our last bottle.

That's a tough one. Can't recall all the port I had so far (never mind what port I had last weekend), but off-hand they would include:

1955 Grahams Vintage
1948 Grahams Vintage
1927 Taylor Vintage
1963 Fonseca Vintage
1945 Sandeman Vintage
1935 Croft Vintage
:wall:

Ronald Wortel wrote:There were quite a few nice ones, but Fonseca 66 and Dow 70 probably made the biggest impression.

They should!

VP 2000 Quinta Val de Figueira - AMAZING untill now the best VP 2000 in my opinion.

I have not tasted many VT 2007 but one definitively stands out, the one made by Mr. Soares Franco for his project Duorum. Excellent! :lick:

I am patiently awaiting my samples to arrive to have my wife mix them into the many others still awaiting my on-going blind tasting.

I haven't been to any port tastings this term, and I've drunk far too few. The best is probably the Ramos Pinot 30YO.

Without any doubt my favourite port drinking experience in the first half of 2009 has been having the opportunity to taste 14 x 2007 cask samples, all completely blind and each tasted a number of times over a period of a few days. This is the first time I have attempted this and it has been great fun and has been a big learning experience for me and one that I hope to repeat in future years.

Oh - and I had Cockburn 27, Noval 31 and Fonseca 48 all in the same tasting last week - which was fun