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if you´re interested in technical data of BURTONS 1982: http://www.cavesmessias.pt/uk/loja_produtos_info.php?Produto_ID=220 For 20€ I would purchase it, just for curiosity. it is the only vintage where Messias use this label. by the way, if your compare to declared Messias VP 1982, there a surprisi...

Dear Gents, Axel Probst and me collect a great line up of Cockburn Port, who we want to taste in Frankfurt, Germany on Saturday October 27th, 19h. Line up : COCKBURN VP 1955 COCKBURN VP 1963 COCKBURN VP 1967 COCKBURN VP 1970 COCKBURN VP 1975 COCKBURN Port 1977 (not officially declared) COCKBURN VP 1...

Dear Jacob,

two new Quintas from Ramos Pinto in Douro Superior for your map:

Quinta dos Bons Ares

41º 03' 28.44''N
7º 14' 22.40'' W

Quinta da Ervamoira (the GPS dates are from the entry to Quinta in the village Muxagata)

41º 02' 12.35''N
7º 10' 3.95'' W

Best,
Christopher

Crasto LBV from 1993? Some curios from a very special year???

I think even the most Port lovers havn´t had a port from 1993 in her career.

At our 70's tasting in November 2011 in Leverkusen we had two different bottlings: The perfect bottle was from Dolamore, London and second one was a Morgon Furze & Co, London bottling, this was not bad, but shows not real face of this very good port. So maybe the Deinhard bottling is similiar to...

Was the Taylor 70 an Oporto bottling or english bottler?

Hi Rob, in my opinion the Single Quinta Senhora da Ribeira does not representate what is typical for Dow. For me the Senhora da Ribeira is more dominatet by easy, but strong fruit (blackberry and blackcurrent) and much sweeter then a classic Dow. But for the Symingtons it makes sense to do something...

An unusual year - overrated, classic or exceptionell? My tasting notes: Now that I have on several occasions, most of the wines several times, partially blind, I am of the opinion that 2009 was a very good year for vintage port. Some wines are excellent, even if you have to say in general that were...

At 16th of March ten Port lovers take part at a great KOPKE Colheita vertical in Frankfurt / Germany. We tasted 11 KOPKE Colheitas from 1935 to 1995, with a minimum of one Colheita per decade. There were some bottles with significant bottle age and some were bottled in the last two years. So we had ...

Axel, what do you mean with, not as good as 52?

Passadouro 94 I had a year ago in a compared tasting with Passadouro 92. I liked the 94 more, even the 94 had a little alcoholic finish, but is more fresh and more complex then the 92.

I had the same expierence with Passadouro 1995. I had 3 bottles, one normal and two half, all three were faulty. I think with this Port was something seriously wrong during the bottling (or maybe at fortification). All three smell like nail polish, it was for sure nor a bad storing either a cork pro...

I had Croft 66 in February in a blind tasting and was absolutely suprised about how good it is. I guessed it for a Fonseca 70, a VP I like very much.

yes you are right, I would love to buy this collection, but I have to refuse, I'm actually too young for this 9000 bottle lot, I want to drink port longer than 24 years

if there is an average of 50 pounds per bottle (what is very low if the most bottles came from early 20th century and before), that would mean the price for the whole lot ist 450.000 pounds... and if you drink one bottle a day, you will need around 24 years to empty this lot... (if you are still ali...

Dear Gents, first off all, many thanks to Wolfgang for organizing and bringing the ports. the tasting was a great pleasure for me, there were at least 8 wines that I can recommend and another 10 were I´am glad, that have had them. A tasting report (it is only in German, sorry, but you can use googl...

Hello Henry, as the first reply said, you have to wait at least to middle of the year 2012 to buy any Vintage Port of 2010. As I know it is really improbable that the Fladgate Group will make any Single Quinta VP, but I guess that Sogevinus maybe plan to bottle some Kopke Quinta Sao Luiz VP 2010. So...

My opinion to this question is, that it is not possible to give a definitive answer. But so far, to Kopke Colheitas I would say that it is bettter to drink they in the first 10years after bottling. We had the 1935, 1938, and 1947 who were bottled from 1984 to 1990, more then 20years in bottle and th...

In the run up to the great rarities Kopke Colheita (the line up incl. the Colheitas of 1935, 1938, 1947, 1957, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1984 and 1995) tasting in March 2012 in Frankfurt, Christopher Pfaff of Passion Port talked to the man who is responsible for the vinification of these outstanding wines: ...