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This wine was tasted at the winery in California and my memory of it was delightful. PnP No sediment which suggests this was filtered (no information on the bottle). Not a great nose, closed with some fustiness. A hint of cherries. Not a particularly attractive flavour, cardboard and heat with a hin...

Alex, the invite I have has a 6pm start, when are we actually intending to kick off? I’m happy to try and join early but will more likely be around 7pm.

Today I took delivery of 6 bottles of 2018 Barros (thanks to PCM for the heads up), a few bottles of the Niepoort 2015 LBV and a bottle of Noval 10 YO tawny all from Garrafeira Nacional in their 20% off sale. I couldn't believe the price of the 2018 Barros at less than £22 a bottle, now I'm torn as ...

I'm even getting to the point that I feel like quality unfiltered LBV needs 20 years of age. I agree. A few LBVs are made with rubbish juice that really shouldn't pass the IVDP, and some are over-filtered/fined. From the producers that take the style seriously, most should be drunk between 20 and 4...

A rather intriguing question, and one that for myself has several answers, particularly bearing in mind that I'm very much in the early stages of my port journey, with a smaller and more youthful collection. If I'm looking to buy some port for future drinking, notes that provide large amounts of inf...

Huge Congratulations to Tony & Claire and all the team at Vintage Wine & Port for winning the Decanter Sweet & Fortified Wine Specialist Retailer of the year for 2020. Two awards in two years for VWP and very well deserved! Such a range of ports but some great online tastings this year too, which I...

Yes please!

Tasted from samples provided in the Vintage Wine and Port/Big Fortified Tasting at-home Quevedo white port session. Tasted from a cask sample that Oscar kindly included in the tasting pack. The nose is rather perfumed, with Parma Violets and redcurrants. More sweet, perfumed Parma Violets on the pal...

Tasted from samples provided in the Vintage Wine and Port/Big Fortified Tasting at-home Quevedo white port session. Lovely, no roughness that some LBVs suffer. Strawberries and candy on the nose. Tart red fruits on the palate with plums following on. Pepper and a nice drying tannic finish. A very en...

Tasted from samples provided in the Vintage Wine and Port/Big Fortified Tasting at-home Quevedo white port session. This is a wine that is from Oscar’s family cellar collection, it’s from 1970 but has not been registered as such so is referred to as Very Old in this situation. This is an incredible ...

Tasted from samples provided in the Vintage Wine and Port/Big Fortified Tasting at-home Quevedo white port session. The 30 year old was less buttery than the other white ports in this tasting, more caramel and nutty. Like a classic aged tawny. This is very drinkable and I could happily enjoy it on a...

Tasted from samples provided in the Vintage Wine and Port/Big Fortified Tasting at-home Quevedo white port session. Whether this should be referred to as a tawny seems to be to for discussion in the Duoro, with some producers doing so and some preferring not to. Either way, this looks like a tawny w...

Tasted from samples provided in the Vintage Wine and Port/Big Fortified Tasting at-home Quevedo white port session. I forgot to note the exact length but Oscar explained that Quevedo’s Reserve White spends a good length of time aging in barrels; I think it is 7 or 8 years. Anyway, this is delicious,...

do you ever drink any Port that hasn't spent some serious time aging in a bottle?! Very rarely these days. Around 98% of my port consumption is aged wine with an overall average of somewhere between 25 and 30 years bottle age. Do you find much changes in those 10 year old tawnies when they’ve spend...

I only have Dow’s and Graham’s crusted, acquired over the last year in various supermarket sales bonanzas. I shall look out for the Niepoort! In honour of the cellar defender discussion I’ve opened a bottle of Graham’s 10 year old tawny, which I sadly haven’t had time to cellar for 10 years in bottl...

Garrafeira Nacional offers Barros VP 2018 for €23.12/bottle! Reading your note that must be an incredible bargain!! (and also Calem VP '18 and Burmester Arnozelo VP '18 for less than €25....). Edited: this afternoon the Barros changed to €23.92 and the Arnozelo to €26+ :( That’s a great spot! I’ve ...

I’ve been working on cellar defenders as I’ve been building up my VP collection, and mostly it’s similar to what has already been discussed. I have been intrigued by unfiltered LBVs and crusted ports, so there’s a heavy lean towards those, but I’ve also started trying 10yo tawnies from various diffe...

It should mature in the bottle really nicely. I recently had a 2000 Sandeman LBV and I would say that it still needed another 5-10 years to hit it's peak. I think that’s what I’ll be doing with the rest of mine from this batch. However I’m not sure I’m tempted to add more stock unless Waitrose do a...

Further tasting over the following few weeks showed a softening of this wine, and a lot of sediment was left in the bottle (having already decanted and returned the port to its original bottle). I don’t think I’ll touch this again for a few years, it’ll be intriguing to see how it improves over time.

Thanks for organising these as always. It was great to catch up with you all!

I'm genuinely envious of this plan. Enjoy!

Please can I be added to this? I might save the rest of the Quevedo 1970 white port for the occasion...

I was genuinely impressed by all the wines and similarly blown away by the 1970! Thanks to all involved for organising, I look forward to more of these.

Please may I be included on the Zoom as well? Thank you!

Please may I be included on the Zoom as well? Thank you!