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Thanks to all for the interesting comments. I'm pleased to have asked an intelligent question; as I said before, not knowing much about port, I was afraid that the answer might be entirely obvious and commonplace.

OK - I plead guilty to the red/tawny confusion; I should, of course, have entitled my query 'A dry tawny port?' The truth is that I'm not a great port drinker, and I therefore think of wine as red or white (rosé being a heresy in my scheme of things). I wanted to make it clear that the port I was re...

I'm glad my memory hasn't failed me. I think it was the Reserve Tawny which I used to buy.

AHB wrote:Perhaps if you could give us an idea of when you were buying it we might be able to look up the relevant WS catalogues.

I'm inclined to say that I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate me, but we're talking 1970s, or even 1960s.

No, it wasn't a white port (the Wine Society featured white port separately on its list at the time) and it was a fortified wine. It occurs to me that this was long ago at a time when labelling regulations were lax, and perhaps the Wine Soc was being a bit imaginative. (I recall that they featured C...

A very long time ago, the Wine Society used to list a dry red port which was recommended as a aperitif. Over a couple of years, we bought several bottles, and enjoyed it. Then it disappeared from the list and has never returned. Does such a wine still exist? And is it available in the UK? I can't fi...

Thanks - it's as I thought

Related question: I bought a bottle of Sainsbury's TTD 1999 VP this morning. I presume it will need to be decanted like any other vintage port, but I'm surprised that the, rather elaborate, label doesn't say so. Is it simply a case of Messrs Sainsbury not wanting put off potential purchasers, or wha...