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mosesbotbol wrote: ↑18:57 Tue 20 Jan 2026 Bourbon market will be good for someone major to add acquisitions. A lot of producers in a dire situation.

The loss of the majority of the Canadian market really was a massive own goal (albeit not entirely of their making).

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Excellent! I'll be arriving late afternoon on the 26th and have work calls I'll have to attend to on the 27th so how about drinks in the evening on the 27th or lunch on the 28th? I'll make the necessary arrangements for lunch on the 28th (the drunks have to be wrangled). If I can make it on the 27t...

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I have just booked a short city break in Porto for a few days at the end of January and was wondering if anyone else is likely to be in the city around that time - if you are please let me know! I might be, I'll wrangle up a few drunks and we can have lunch, if you're available. Just let me know wh...

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rich_n wrote: ↑15:22 Sun 11 Jan 2026 I have just booked a short city break in Porto for a few days at the end of January and was wondering if anyone else is likely to be in the city around that time - if you are please let me know!

I might be, I'll wrangle up a few drunks and we can have lunch, if you're available.

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Not sure if this belongs here. If not, please move it. I don't know if anyone's heard of the Oeno Group (or even - god forbid - invested in it), but apparently it's an investment firm for investing in fine wine and whisky. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's apparently in big financial trouble (perhaps by ...

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That looks nice.

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I bought 6 bottles of a newly released (still unlabelled) 10 year old by a small producer called Mapa (the owner, Pedro Garcias, also writes a weekly article about wine in the Portuguese newspaper Público). Tasted it at lunch on Friday and it's quite good, more on the fruity side than on the caramel...

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Alex Bridgeman wrote: ↑18:41 Sat 20 Dec 2025 Camel Valley Vineyard Brut 2019 to celebrate reaching the Saturday before Christmas.

Congratulations on the milestone.

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This is a lot of festive drinking.

Yesterday I had a festive lunch and a festive dinner but I forgot do document what we drank. Most of us were producers so there were lots of soon-to-be-released wines, mostly unlabelled.

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Today for an impromptu late lunch at Porto's Casa da Música we had , amongst other things, a Vale da Figueira 10yo, a Fonseca 1985, and the remnants of a Vallado 50yo that I had the luck to enjoy a couple of days ago. Non-Port standouts were the quite electric Quinta do Regueiro Maturado em Barricas...

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As a science master and a physics enthusiast, this is one of the best topics on TPF. On topic: I have a cheap temperature/humidity sensor in my cellar that has no wireless or wired capabilities, it just keeps local records of high temps and humidity that I occasionally consult. I have an Arduino and...

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I think Heisenberg will rise from the grave and stop him if he tries!

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Uva Mira? Damn, there goes one potential name for my wines. I should have dibs, though, one of those words is my surname.

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On a side note: I never understand this "It was still a big success but we decided to close" reasoning. It's a shame that a venue with almost half a century of service just closes down like that. I suspect doesn’t want to be too rude about the landlord — people meet again — but the rent i...

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Wow. In 2005 I was actually living in London, as an undergrad.

On a side note: I never understand this "It was still a big success but we decided to close" reasoning. It's a shame that a venue with almost half a century of service just closes down like that.

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It's an 1879 Verdelho.

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I like that what started as an informal chat about thermometers has devolved (evolved?) into a detailed post about the Planck length.

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I use a Thermapen in the kitchen. It is fast and reliable. I believe that mine is a Mk IV. The current Thermapen One claims to be accurate within 0.5 degrees F (0.3 degrees C). Is it really that accurate? I don't know. When I'm smoking a brisket, the difference between 200 degrees and 200.5 degrees...

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It's a trick question. There's nothing "very Port" that you haven't done.

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Those are some very nice wines. Surprised to see a Quinta das Bágeiras there, they're not very well known wines outside of Portugal but they are excellent.

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^^ I think there are 50 white and 65 red varieties, with 64 of those reds being allowed in Port (sorry Pinot Noir, you're only good enough for Douro DOC sparkling wine).

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Does anyone have, or can point me to, a list of the permitted varieties of grapes which can be used in Port production? I’m sure one must exist on the IVDP website, but I can’t find it! The pdf is is Portuguese, but maybe it's this? https://files.dre.pt/1s/2017/12/24300/0665906661.pdf And the broad...

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I had a nice dinner yesterday at Kraneman's Quinta do Convento. Standouts were their 30yo and a 2015 LBV. Kraneman are unfortunately often overlooked but their tawnies are excellent, in my opinion.

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Hello, This is my first post in this forum. I was reading this thread as I will be getting a Coravin 6 system in the idea of finally enjoying some vintage ports that I have been keeping for some 20 years in a cellar. The last posts in this thread goes back a few years so before sticking a needle in...

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£76 is quite nice. £176 not so much!

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I think the real problem here is that far too many people still think of Port as only a dessert wine, which means they don't need very much of it. That tends to cap demand, which suppresses prices of well-aged Port. This is true. What is also true is that people spend less time at the table, unfort...

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I get mine from FTLOP and here, and occasionally from one of the producers or people that I follow on Facebook. Also just word of mouth. Not everything that is known is posted here or on FTLOP, so some of it just floats around in the Portosphere until it occurs to someone to post it somewhere. :rof...

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Interesting. Seems like a great bottle. 1980 bottles from other shippers that I've opened haven't been as young as yours.

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That's a great present, I love this wine. Alas, the only bottle I had (which was also the 2022 bottling) is gone. But at least it went to a worthy cause (my thirst). That said, I'm definitely inviting AHB to my wedding.

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I've yet to fully read the articles (they're open in my browser, waiting for a good time to do so), but I must say that Paul Symington and his family aren't exactly your typical "Douro farmers" that he mentions in the article. Their interests aren't necessarily the same as my interests.

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^^ Still, bloody good deal, if you ask me.

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The prices of the bottles in their shop were quite a bit higher than elsewhere in Porto, which I found a bit odd. This is something that always incenses me. I always think "Mate, you know we all have internet, right? We know what this costs". But then I understand that it's to try to capi...

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I love pão de queijo (and pastéis de nata, of course). This is a good thread.

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Rummy wrote: ↑19:23 Sun 28 Sep 2025 Just bought 6 bottles of Quinta do Tedo Savedra 2011 at auction.

I once tasted it at Quinta do Tedo and was impressed, so I bought 3 bottles. Haven't opened any yet, so I can't say how it's developing.

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Mike J. W. wrote: ↑20:52 Fri 26 Sep 2025 I'm in the process of entering all of my Port (& Wine) into a spreadsheet that I created to track it.

Welcome to the dark side. Come in, the water's fine.

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I'm in.

How about "something not from big conglomerates"? (We can discuss who these are, but I'd include Sogrape, Symington, Sogevinus, and Fladgate). Or is it too general?

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Yeah, I only got home at about half ten, sorry I couldn't make it

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Still at the winery.

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Received.
I'll probably be pressing some grapes in the afternoon, might be done by 7.30/8pm, so I'll try to join asap.

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Rummy wrote: ↑13:31 Sun 21 Sep 2025
MigSU wrote: ↑17:25 Sun 14 Sep 2025 Would love to join you for a glass but I think I'm fully booked (by work commitments) that week.
That's too bad. Please do let me know if anything changes.

Will do. Things are in constant flux, anyway, so what's true today might very well change tomorrow.

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I wanted to go but didn't manage to get away in time.

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Would love to join you for a glass but I think I'm fully booked (by work commitments) that week.

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Eye = Visual Nose = Nariz Mouth = Boca I was having a debate with Julian about these. My feeling was that you wouldn't translate directly but would instead go: o aspeto o cheiro o sabor What would you expect to see if you were looking at wine reviews in a copy of, say, Revista dos Vinhos? I debated...

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Eye = Visual Nose = Nariz Mouth = Boca I was having a debate with Julian about these. My feeling was that you wouldn't translate directly but would instead go: o aspeto o cheiro o sabor What would you expect to see if you were looking at wine reviews in a copy of, say, Revista dos Vinhos? In wine t...

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VoteRecorderTopTexts: Wine Of The Night? = Vinho da Noite What is it? = Qual é? VoteRecorderInstruction: Record points, not rank. = Registar os pontos, não a posição TastingNotesColumnHeadings: Times (i.e., time at which wine decanted) = Horas Eye = Visual Nose = Nariz Mouth = Boca Score = Pontuação...

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The last (and only) TN for this wine was a cask sample from 2007, so I thought I'd crack one open to see what it's like at 20 years old. The cork broke in two using a regular corkscrew, but the bit that stayed in the bottle was easy to remove without crumbling. Still super dark. Maybe a slight brick...

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rich_n wrote: ↑14:50 Wed 13 Aug 2025 2000 Croft, purchased from Seckford - 2 cases of 12 x 750ml, £250 a case IB. A bargain that I couldn't resist.

There's still one more case listed if anyone's feeling keen...

Dang. I'd love to partake in that. Great price for a great wine.

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Mike J. W. wrote: ↑17:19 Mon 28 Jul 2025 Thanks George. If I saw that kind of pricing in the U.S. for 1970 and 1977 Port, I'd own a hell of a lot more bottles from those years, especially the 1970 Vintage.

Same here. And we produced the damn things!

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This is excellent, thank you.

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Agreed. I use a single sheet of muslin (thank you, AHB), and it's always enough. A little cloudiness doesn't bother me, and it's better than a subpar flavour.

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