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- 20:16 Mon 04 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6058
Re: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
I tried that text with the Google language tools, and got this: Special categories of Port wine White The Wines of Porto may bear the words Reserve or an indication of age (10, 20, 30 or + 40 years) provided that completion of procedures included in the Regulations of the Port wine on this topic. Al...
- 12:10 Mon 04 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6058
Re: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
I've just spent some time burrowing into the little recesses of the IVDP site in search of a definitive list of approved port types, but to no avail. Does anyone have an up-to-date list of port products that can carry the guarantee seal - especially the variants of white port, which I believe have b...
- 20:51 Sun 03 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2006 Declarations
- Replies: 55
- Views: 31245
Re: 2006 Declarations
Message from Johnny Graham (Churchill):
"We are currently launching for laying down the 2006 Vintage [Quinta da Gricha] which won a Gold Medal at this year’s International Wine Challenge in London"
- So some good news!
Tom
"We are currently launching for laying down the 2006 Vintage [Quinta da Gricha] which won a Gold Medal at this year’s International Wine Challenge in London"
- So some good news!
Tom
- 19:46 Sun 03 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6058
Re: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
How could i forget that...and Pink
Tom
- 19:22 Sun 03 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6058
Re: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
For the types, I have seventeen styles, including one obsolete style which needs to be included for historical purposes (vintage character), and a catch-all 'Special' for anything that doesn't seem to fit. Are there now categories for whites with indication of age? I'm not quite clear about recent c...
- 15:26 Sun 03 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6058
Re: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
I was thinking along the lines of a spreadsheet, with the shippers/brands on one axis and the types on the other - for example you might look up Reserves on one axis and Cockburn on the other, and get an entry that might read: Special Reserve, (1976? - present day) Alternatively you might look up Cr...
- 00:11 Sun 03 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Keeping tabs on other types of port.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6058
Keeping tabs on other types of port.
We're pretty well informed regarding vintage port, and the vintage ports made in years past, but the other types of port seem to get lost to history with indecent speed. Is it worth maintaining a database of the shippers other products? It occurs to me that a simple matrix of producers and product c...
- 23:21 Sat 02 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1991 Croft
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3315
Re: 1991 Croft vintage port
Another day and this continues to look very young; with greater depth and integrity than I recall from the M91. This is nowhere near mature, with a vibrant young nose and tannic palate. As the '91's have moved on from their 'Kevin' phase, I have begun to suspect that this vintage is one that will re...
- 21:20 Fri 01 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1991 Croft
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3315
Re: 1991 Croft vintage port
+ 8 hrs
A young Turk with a good nose. Well short of mature, but not overly tannic either.
Is this the same as the M91? - I'm not sure. There are clear similarities, but I sense this may be a class above.
May be.. - need to do a back to back at some point. See where this one goes from here..
Tom
A young Turk with a good nose. Well short of mature, but not overly tannic either.
Is this the same as the M91? - I'm not sure. There are clear similarities, but I sense this may be a class above.
May be.. - need to do a back to back at some point. See where this one goes from here..
Tom
- 13:37 Fri 01 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2008 - small crops can be very good..
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7249
Re: 2008 - small crops can be very good..
The Douro Insider Report for June has now been published - includes a good explanation of the issues and terminology regarding fruit set.
Tom
http://www.thevintageportsite.com/vinta ... .aspx?pg=6
Tom
http://www.thevintageportsite.com/vinta ... .aspx?pg=6
- 13:30 Fri 01 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1991 Croft
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3315
1991 Croft
One of ten bottles bought last year. This bottle selected for having signs of old seepage, although they might have resulted from a messy moment in the bottling plant. Cork showed no defects, was extracted intact, and was perfectly branded. Decanted 12.30. Very dark, moderate amount of fine sediment...
- 10:15 Fri 01 Aug 2008
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: ¿ phpBB 3.0.0 ?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 25615
Re: ¿ phpBB 3.0.0 ?
New colour scheme is a bit austere - is this temporary?
Tom
Tom
- 22:27 Thu 31 Jul 2008
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Tasting Notes Section
- Replies: 178
- Views: 81452
- 20:06 Thu 31 Jul 2008
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Tasting Notes Section
- Replies: 178
- Views: 81452
- 18:00 Thu 31 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Always wanted to own a port company?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15805
If you are making bulk unfortified wines from vineyards on moderate slopes that are suitable for highly mechanised viniculture, then it is perfectly possible to turn a profit from very cheap products. But in the Douro, the very labour intensive cultivation coupled to the additional cost of aguardent...
- 19:54 Wed 30 Jul 2008
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Wednesday October 8, 2008
- Replies: 217
- Views: 90734
- 17:44 Wed 30 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Always wanted to own a port company?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15805
I see no mention of labor costs in the previous calculations. The least impressive lots of Ruby are not going to sell for a price that covers the cost of production; indeed I would not be surprised if all Rubies are inherently unprofitable, and that the better returns on the reserves, tawnies and s...
- 22:20 Tue 29 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1983 Gould Campbell
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5414
A couple more days and the wine is showing nicely now, with virtually no fire and quite a pleasant nose. I am certain that this is not corked, but it IS a little odd - in colour it is reassuringly dark, yet on the palate is shows quite light. It's flavour impacts my forward palate well, but to the a...
- 17:43 Tue 29 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Always wanted to own a port company?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15805
- 17:28 Tue 29 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Always wanted to own a port company?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15805
Do the current owners of Quinta do Ventozelo and Castelinho have lots of short-term borrowing? If so, that might explain the sale — and offer a purchaser comfort about the negotiability of the price. That thought crossed my mind also. Spain has seen wild property speculation fuelled by cheap money...
- 15:58 Tue 29 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Always wanted to own a port company?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15805
bottles and labels are 2$ per bottle .. 2400$ a year or so. A lot less than that, I think, although I don't have the exact numbers. It's possible to calculate that the cheapest supermarket rubies are sold 'ex works' for about 2 euros per bottle - including not only the wine, but the bottle, stopper...
- 09:49 Tue 29 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Always wanted to own a port company?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15805
- 22:00 Mon 28 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: The Price of Port
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1955
One of the great mantras of business is that 'money goes to money', and when that money is invested in something bulky, that needs special storage, the costs of that storage can weigh heavily as well. So what should 2006 Vesuvio sell for at this stage? My initial take is that this is probably a reas...
- 21:58 Sun 27 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1983 Gould Campbell
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5414
24 hours on, and I can confirm that the Herrings are red..! Nose weak and slightly medicinal, no star on that front. On the palate this is now full, composed, and almost fire-free, although there is a slightly soapy note that is not entirely agreeable. But it is not corked. Although this wine has ex...
- 23:56 Sat 26 Jul 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1983 Gould Campbell
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5414
A couple of hours on, and a glass proper. The wine is showing in a very similar way to the GC77 we had at Joost's house - including, unfortunately, the 'I might be corked' nose... Indeed it's so similar, and yet quite a long way from the textbook 'corked' sensation; I'm wondering if this is a red he...