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I have reported elsewhere (here) that I am highly partial to the 1989 Champalimaud; it is found readily in Portugal for a modest tariff and makes a fine cellar defender. The 1995 effort by this same producer is likewise agreeable. In the event, my first tasting of the 2001 Champalimaud constituted a...

A lovely note; and a fine name. Welcome to the Port Forum Altrurian.

Catawiki? I see you're a man of culture. Ha! More like a man who's bored silly when not working. In all seriousness, when I was living in northern Europe I did find that there were a great many wine merchants in the Netherlands using catawiki to sell VPs from second tier producers at favourable pri...

yeah it was and a bit of a challenge to find ports from the year, so when i do find them i have to try and get them. If you are still stuck towards 2024 I bought a case of Delaforce QdCorte and I still have 9 or 10 bottles. Wouldn’t be wowing about them tbh. thanks, i know that it is bad year, just...

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I have long regarded Graham’s tawnies with an indication of age as being engineered deliberately to avoid giving offence. Admittedly, the same cannot be said of this producer’s vintage ports, though I have never really warmed to same, preferring my vintages to evince a dryer style. Or rather, this w...

Pulled from the cellar on 19 March 2021, this exercise constituted my latest effort to acquire a taste for Niepoort vintage ports. Like any port drinker worthy of the faith, I professed undying fealty to Niepoort colheitas some years ago, at my first step on the road to Damascus. It is my understand...

Dow's
Ramos Pinto
Burmester
Ferreira
Graham's
Romaneira

Piles of the Graham's, Burmester and Romaneira. The rest are single bottles, according to my cellar list.

I'm in.

The TN has been duly corrected - with immense thanks to you Phil. And my gratitude for the link, which I had missed (i.e., shoddy research on my part). As to travel to Florida... well, maybe to northern Florida in winter, with those wine suitcases which piles of us purchased around Christmastime.

Rainha Santa vintage port was produced by Offley-Forrester in 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1994, 1995 and 1997. I have no idea how many bottles were shifted in any of the aforementioned years nor the source of the grapes. However, I can state with complete certainty that this is a hard-to-find wine; that...

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What a magnificent port this proved to be! In the glass on 20 February 2021 after a three and one-half hour decant, this brick-red wine with a clear rim was remarkably opaque for a vintage port which has passed its fiftieth year. More remarkable still was the nose. The first thing that struck my dri...

A week and a day after being confronted by the stunning 1970 Dow’s vintage port, this seeming child presented itself and, to my utter delight, exceeded by far all expectations. In the glass on 28 February 2021 after a six-hour decant, the wine was half opaque and exhibited pinkish-brown hues, crowne...

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Long time lurker, first time poster! This post made me come out of the woodwork. As part of my long-running commitment to enriching the family which owns the property adjacent to Quinta Dona Matilde, I recently had a dozen bottles filled with what is claimed to be a 1937 colheita. This tasting note...

As part of my long-running commitment to enriching the family which owns the property adjacent to Quinta Dona Matilde, I recently had a dozen bottles filled with what is claimed to be a 1937 colheita. This tasting note is based upon an initial sample. Was it a 1937? I have no idea. If it was a 1937,...

Decanted properly, which this bottle was not, the 1982 Kopke can be a delight - and indeed, as good as any vintage port produced from the ’82 harvest. On 14 February 2021, the wine presented well in the glass: brown and maroon tones dominated this largely opaque offering. However, after six hours in...

This was the first Terra Feita which I had consumed; it was purchased some six years ago whilst waiting to depart from Porto airport after a week in that city. Indeed, it was during this sojourn, then only my second to Portugal, at which I learned what port wine is supposed to taste like (i.e., not ...

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Literary types will know Miguel Torga as a twentieth-century titan of Portuguese literature. Of arguably more relevance to a semi-literate, would-be port afficionado such is myself is the fact that Torga is, as far as I can determine, the only non-producer to have had a vintage port named after him...

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13:11 Wed 27 Jan 2021

Any idea what is happening to Quinta do Fojo's grapes now?

I haven't a clue and must correspondingly defer to others on this question.

Literary types will know Miguel Torga as a twentieth-century titan of Portuguese literature. Of arguably more relevance to a semi-literate, would-be port afficionado such is myself is the fact that Torga is, as far as I can determine, the only non-producer to have had a vintage port named after him....

I have expressed my view elsewhere on this forum that, in good years, Burmester vintage ports rest oftentimes at or near the top of the second rank. Perhaps unwittingly, Mr. Hersh placed the 1994 precisely there in a 2014 tasting note. In the event, this bottle proved to be a disappointment. In the ...

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