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Thank you again. No. Resist the temptations. This is the port forum. We talk about port. Suitably emphatic and Hemingway-like. In fact, knowing the Port Forum, it could well be a quote from a Hemingway novel that I don't recognize. :? Accepting Alex's advice, I shall ask a follow-up question about Q...

Thank you, everyone. If there is a likelihood of declarations next April, I shall wait until then ... hopefully for a matching dozen of QVVV. The Port Forum has lived up to its reputations: both for knowledge of conditions in the Douro vineyards ... and for tempting me sorely by suggesting other opt...

Good afternoon everyone. My daughter and her husband had a baby girl last year, to much rejoicing all round. The tradition is that a proud grandfather should buy a pipe of port to lay down for baby Juno's 21st birthday. Not a tradition I can follow, I fear; but for each of her cousins (born in 2000 ...

DRT wrote:So perhaps an as yet unreleased Panascal?

That's possible, of course ... but it's been more than 14 years since the vintage. Wouldn't that be rather a long time in which not to announce an SQVP?

Hi Julian, Fonseca Quinta do Panascal 1999. This is not in The Book, nor is it listed on the Fonseca website, but Richard Mayson reports tasting it on 25 May 2011 on the Vintage Port Notes section of his website: http://www.richardmayson.com/Vintage_Port_Notes/2011/05/25/Taylor_Fonseca_and_Croft_199...

According to the latest (2013) edition of Port and the Douro , this phrase has been replaced by "'reserve' ( reserva in Portuguese)". "Under the terms of the 2002 legislation, the words Finest, Especial or Special may be used with either ruby or reserve. The expression 'Special Reserv...

Thank you. Most useful. Shall do.

I went down to the cellar this afternoon, and opened the first of the 1997 Niepoort cases. Fortunately, there are no signs of leakage.

John

Hi Julian, I surf too much. A few days ago I was reading a recent entry to Richard Mayson's blog http://www.richardmayson.com/Vintage_Port_Notes/ an entry from 16 September called "Recent Vintages of Noval and Noval Nacional (plus 1963 Nacional)" in which Mayson gives a tasting note for 20...

Thank you, Julian. The information you've requested is in no way secret, so here is probably more than you need. A gross simplification of the West's increasing longevity is that, on average (and nobody is average), a man lives to be 6 years older than his father; a woman lives to be 6 years older t...

Thank you again.

We are fortunate enough to have a wine cellar under our house, and that's where much of our Port, including the 1997 Niepoort, is stored.

One of the delights of a community like this is that different minds will latch onto things which I hadn't realized were important.

Later,

John

A super post from Glenn, making distinctions I found most helpful. "At its peak" means, well, that it has reached its zenith and probably will not improve any further. I use "peak" somewhat loosely, though, because I don't mean to imply that it is about to decline. Most Ports wil...

Thank you for the links about 1997 Niepoort. I already have the Niepoort, which I bought a long time ago. In the first years following its release, the independent reviews I read praised it ... of course, the reviewers did not know then the problems with leakage and volatile acidity that have since ...

But John, I recommend you stick to your 25 year drinking plan because then we can't be accused of encouraging you to buy more than you will drink! But of course, if you want any help in deciding the order in which to open the bottles in your cellar then we'd love to argue about it here! Thank you. ...

Thank you for picking up this theme, Alex for it's the main reason I've emerged from lurking on the forums again. I stopped posting to the Port forums a few years ago, when it became clear that you folk were encouraging me to buy far more Port than I could drink in a lifetime! At that time, I had en...

For those of you in the South of England, within driving distance of Basingstoke, BBR has put bin ends of port from between 1970 and 1994 -- mainly SW, GC and QH -- on sale in its Basingstoke shop, at 25% discount. Available, I believe, to callers only. There are, or were, a couple of dozen 1994 War...

Hi Julian, Reading through the Taylor chapter this evening, I noticed a few places where the latest version of the taylor.pt website disagrees with The Book. 1922: You quote Amanda Brunner as writing, "We have no record of this vintage." Yet http://www.taylor.pt/en/catalogue/vintage/port-w...