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For Port red Port, as one of the earliest celebrants after the Methuen treaty no less justly than emphatically calls it, White Port being a mere albino is incomparable when good. It is not a wine-of-all-work like Sherry Mr. Pendennis was right when he declined to drink it with his dinner. [ William ...

(Notes on Port List.) It should be observed that the relative frequency with which the names of shippers occur does not invariably involve a higher estimate on my own part, owning to the fact noticed in the chapter on the subject, of the partiality of some wine merchants for some shippers. This is ...

I subjoin a list of the ports in my cellar at different or the same times. SHIPPERS AND YEARS Cockburn Dow Croft Sandeman 1851 1870 1875 1863 --81 --78 --85 --67 --84 --87 --87 --70 --90 --90 --94 --72 --96 --96 1900 --73 1900 --99 --04 --78 1904 --81 --87 Martinez Warre Graham --90 1880 1878 1881 -...

So no more, save a postscript, of ‘the Englishman’s wine’ ; though I should like to talk of a curious Dow, as deep in colour as a wine bottled at thirty months, but otherwise completely ‘tawny’ in character ; of the ’04’s and their wonderfully rapid development (some of which a friend gave me at Bel...

On another point of interest, the possession of so large a number of different vintages and shipments enables one to give a pretty well-based opinion ; and that is the extreme uncertainty of the keeping qualities even of a fortified wine like port. I have already hinted, and may now state more preci...

One of the results of this extensive and continuous ‘sampling’ was the conclusion that the exclusive devotion of some wine-merchants to particular shippers is rather a mistake, and that the superior position accorded in the market to some of these shippers Cockburn and Sandeman especially—is not un...

Between 1895 and 1915 I collected in this way small lots of most of the best back-vintages from ’70 onward, with a few older still : and laid down a dozen or two of several sorts of the best that followed from ’96 to ’08 (I had bought but not cellared ’11 before I gave up housekeeping). At one time ...

I found out, at any rate, or chose to find out, that it did me none, or si peu que rien , and regretted my precipitancy in getting rid of the ’78 and ’81. But in ten years I had three house-moves and no good cellar ; so that I simply used up what wines I had got and supplied deficiencies for immedia...

However, other people had to be provided for, and I did not myself practise total abstinence. I seem, from menus preserved, though the book was in suspense, to have trusted chiefly to three kinds, no one of which perhaps would have been highly esteemed by a person who went by common opinion, but whi...

For some years, however, after the book was started I did not drink much port, being in the heat of my devotion to Claret or Burgundy after dinner. I cannot find that I ever possessed any ’54, which, though not a large or very famous vintage, some not bad judges ranked with ’51 itself, but I have re...

CHAPTER III PORT That port should follow sherry is, or ought to be, to any decent Englishman, a thing requiring no argument. My cellar, if not exactly my cellar-book (which, as has been said, did not begin till some years later), was founded in this eminent respect on a small supply of 1851 (I think...

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This thread contains the text of the chapter on Port in George Saintsbury’s book Notes on a Cellar-Book , as typed by jdaw1. There will doubtless be errors in the typing, and readers may well have other comments. Please post corrections and comments in the thread Notes on a Cellar-Book: Corrections...

There follows the text of chapter III of Notes on a Cellar-Book , by George Saintsbury . The book has been out of copyright for almost five years: Notes on a Cellar-Book was published in London in 1920, having been written by a British author, this text being posted by a British citizen whilst physi...

Sounds splendid. Only two things wrong:
1. The absence of me;
2. The absence of tasting notes.
One of these can be remedied.

Three is quorate. Ferreira, Friday 17th October 2008, chez moi.

Anybody else?

Tomorrow I’m off to Portugal, so won’t be able to participate actively in the discussion. But I am in town that Friday; my wife is not; so my apartment could be the venue.

Anybody could have wrote:Good. Huge. Black. Still closed. Needs another decade, when it will be great.

If I didn’t know better I’d think that somebody had just opened a Fonseca 1985.

Enjoy. Steak and kidney is a joy inaccessible this side of the water.

Benchmark Wine wrote:Barros Vintage Port 1947 ~ 1 @ $419 MB*****
C. DaSilva House Reserve 1944 ~ 1 @ $548
Croft 1963 ~ 1 @ $180 WS91
Dow Quinta do Bomfim 1978 ~ 1 @ $82
Ferreira Quinta do Seixo 1983 ~ 1 @ $150 WS91
Sandeman 1968 ~ 1 @ $171
Warre Grand Reserve Tawny 1968 ~ 2 @ $41

I hereby recind my previous statement to the house I don’t think that it is possible to re s cind a statement to the House. One can make a new statement, apologising for previous errors (whether poor public policy, financial indiscretion or a more salubrious ‘misjudgement’), but I don’t think that ...

Placemats updated to include the two versions of 2007.

Or move it to that Friday 17th October, on which date my wife and child are away so my modest abode becomes a possible venue.

I purged the cache — no don’t ask — and, given the improvement, will henceforth do so more often.

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