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IMG_9765.jpeg The text on the left face of the box reads: Quinta da Devesa Porto Very Very Old Tawny. The 1951 Douro harvest was defined by natural balance. A wet winter replenished underground reserves within the schist soils, a stable spring ensured even flowering and fruit set, and a hot, dry su...

We currently have 14 bottles between 13 of us. Ideally we would have 16 bottles. Is anyone able to fill in any of the gaps above? I’m back home tomorrow. I’ll have a look then to see if I can fill any gaps. I have a 1955 I could bring (as well as the 1978). I also have a pale looking 1942 which com...

Niepoort 2020 LBV, £15 for a 100ml pour at the Portminster Café in St Ives, Cornwall. The justified recommended wine to accompany a slice of blue cheese with a slice of walnut and honey tart. From a freshly opened bottle. Dark red, almost black, with a narrow rim. A lovely nose of forest fruits and ...

Bertie3000 wrote: ↑15:24 Mon 10 Aug 2026 We currently have 14 bottles between 13 of us. Ideally we would have 16 bottles.

Is anyone able to fill in any of the gaps above?

I’m back home tomorrow. I’ll have a look then to see if I can fill any gaps.

Anyone want to share a MR Club Sirloin? I'll share that with you .... plus can I have salmon as a starter and then green beans - 2 mins in hot water - no butter with the steak please along with some fries please No starter. Sharing the medium rare club sirloin with Martin - plus skinny chips and cr...

Anyone want to share a MR Club Sirloin?

Many of us are regular or occasional visitors to Cornwall and I thought it might be helpful to have a thread to capture any places we find particularly sympathetic to fortified wine drinkers. I’ll start with Johns Wine & Spirits on the right at the far end of Fore Street as you walk from the St ...

I went on one of Matthew Green’s vastly entertaining walking tours of London a few weeks ago (his Medieval Wine Tour). He is an astonishingly charismatic guide and host. I received an email today inviting me to subscribe to a 1 hour Zoom presentation on the Untold Story of Port at 6.30pm on Wednesd...

Mike, that is really sneaky! Good use of a chat function.

I do rewax leakers, but seal them first with a dribble of wax to fill whatever flaw or crack is allowing Port to escape. While I completely agree with Phil’s view that a leaker is never going to improve from the point you spot its leaking, sometimes it’s just not the right time to drink it. (@Mike —...

I'm about to join, but probably after the Zoom update...

Port you bought at auction that you definitely did not intend to bid on but as no one else was bidding was a shame to pass up any resemblance to Joycean punctuation was intended That would get rid of one of the tregnums of Graham 2016 I bought for nearly nothing a couple of years ago and which are ...

Do we want to have a theme?

Along the lines of George’s comments, back in the days when I first started storing wine with both Berry Brothers and with Seckfords I visited their warehouses and looked for myself to see if my wines had my name on them. At that time, two decades ago, they did.

I use an approach a little like the one Mike has suggested. I use a teaspoon to dribble a little wax onto the top of the cork of an old bottle to create a first layer to hold the cork and seal in the contents. Once that is cool and set I can dip the bottle. I’ve used this technique for a couple of d...

Welcome to the Forum, Nico! It’s nice to have you with us.

Let us know the sort of thing you like doing when in Portugal and we might be able to help you with some suggestions.

At the AEVP presentation in Portugal a week or so ago, there were a number of producers showing their wine who were not on the first post. These have now been added.

This looks like fun. I have bought a ticket and am hoping I can get home from work in time. 630 is a little early. The wine tour looks good too. How many were in the group tour you did Alex? I see some group tours in London and the group just looks too big. It wasn’t a big group. I think there were...

No samples shipped out, but I tend to view that as a good thing — it means I can choose what to drink to go with the presentation.

I might open my backup Quevedo 2025 advent calendar and give myself a choice of what to drink in small format.

I went on one of Matthew Green’s vastly entertaining walking tours of London a few weeks ago (his Medieval Wine Tour). He is an astonishingly charismatic guide and host. I received an email today inviting me to subscribe to a 1 hour Zoom presentation on the Untold Story of Port at 6.30pm on Wednesda...

George posted his thought on his tasting of the 2024 vintage and mentioned, in passing, a couple of shippers he'd purchased. I thought it might be interesting to have a thread where we discuss and record the wines we purchase from this vintage. While the better known names are quite pricey, there ar...

I wonder if you could put together a file of information and hand it over to the police together with a complaint of fraud? Perhaps also backed up with a complaint to the Insolvency Service about director misconduct and to Companies House about their (deliberate?) mis-leading filing of their registe...

T80YOw announcement.jpg Taylor's have just announced the release of an 80YO White Port, which includes a small percentage of 1896 White (I presume from Krohn). The video is well worth a watch. One of the best videos that Taylor's have put together recently - and I am told that it was put together i...

Julia writes on jancisrobinson.com and has just published an article on the 2024 Vintage Ports and on the 80YO / VVO tasting at the BFT.

The article sits behind the paywall on the site, but if you are a subscriber you can read her article using the link above.

As of 28th June 2026, RP82 was still available by the glass at a price of €29 for a decent pour. I like this wine so much that I try to call in to the RP tasting room whenever I’m in Gaia.

I came across a bottle of Warre Otima 10YO White while in Porto - the Symington’s first white with an indication of age that I am aware of. Needless to say, there was only one thing to do. Was it to yell "why?! Why?! Why would you do this?" and dash your tambuladeira to floor in the middl...

I came across a bottle of Warre Otima 10YO White while in Porto - the Symington’s first white with an indication of age that I am aware of.

Needless to say, there was only one thing to do.

The eagle eyed among you will have spotted that I've just posted a dozen or so tasting notes of various Porto dos Santos Ports. That's because Frederick's Wines are now Alexandre's UK distributor and the first parcel of his wines have just arrived in LCB. I've placed a cheeky first order for 6 bottl...

Drunk at lunch at with Alexandre Botelho. This was a bottle from Alexandre's own stocks. Porto dos Santos White 20YO, a blend of wines from the Baixa Corgo. Bottled in 2024, pop and poured. Rich orange, 20% opaque. A little oloroso notes on the nose, a little dried apricot. Medium sweet on the palat...

Tasted at the Zwolle Port Fair on 18-Oct-2025.

NV Porto dos Santos White 10YO. Bottled 2022. Lovely smooth peach nose. Peach palate, a little honey but very smooth. A lovely mouthful of peach and red pear on the aftertaste and a finish which holds very nicely. 91/100.

Bottled in 2022. Deep golden orange colour, 40% opaque. From a straight sided water glass this still managed to deliver an attractive butterscotch and apricot nose. Lovely texture on the palate; rich flavours meld together to give a lovely smooth fruit-forward palate where the ripeness of the fruit ...

Gentle tropical fruit on the nose. Elegant and rounded with a balanced sweetness - caramel oozing over the top of a fresh cut lime. But the texture on the palate is so interesting, a little burnt apple, dusty with a bit of grip. A very nice example of a 10YO white. Impressive finish. My score: 89/10...

NV Porto dos Santos Reserve White. The new blend from early 2025. Peach and pear on the nose. Sweet peach with a gentle bitterness on the palate. Persistent bitter quince finish. 86/100. Tasted 18-Oct-25 at the Zwolle Port Fair.

NV Porto dos Santos White Reserve. Open 2 days. A dark golden colour, 20% opaque. Soft, sweet tropical fruit faint on the nose. The fruit is much more obvious on the palate, with just a little tannin holding the sweetness in check. The fruit is a little subdued on the aftertaste, but settles in with...

NV Porto dos Santos 20YO Tawny, bottled 2022; pop and pour. At cellar temperature (12°C) this doesn’t show much on the nose but on the palate this is full of red toffee apple, candy floss and burnt sugar (and later, when a little warmer, this changed to be clover honey). The huge levels of acidity r...

Porto dos Santos Tawny 10YO, bottled 2022. A dark chestnut brown colour with a touch of brick in the tone; very dark in the glass, 90% opaque. Rich balsamic on the nose, sweet and sour combining with an opulent umami. Concentrated date and grapefruit, dried figs and so much complex dried fruit. Yet ...

A little dried fruit on the nose. Impressive complexity on the palate with dried fruit, dried alpine strawberries and just the right amount of acidity. Bright and full of flavour. My score: 90/100; awarded a bronze medal and 88 points in the 2024 DWWA.

Porto dos Santos Tawny Reserve NV. Popped and poured at cellar temperature. T-stopper, no bottling date but probably within the last 2 years. Deep brick red in colour, 90% opaque. Spicy on the nose, menthol and red peppercorn. Much more balanced on the palate, still plenty of tannins in the wine but...

Drunk at lunch at with Alexandre Botelho. This was a bottle from Alexandre's own stocks. Porto dos Santos 1989 Colheita, bottled 2023. 670 bottles filled from a single cask originating from the Baixa Corgo. Gentle bronze colour, 20% opaque. Rich and sweet caramel on the nose, very nicely integrated ...

Porto dos Santos Reserve Ruby NV, open 2 hours. Sealed with a driven cork. Lavender and bramble on the sweet and dense nose. A little more refined on the palate with generous levels of young fruit wrapped in a fresh wrapper and soft tannins that only really show up on the aftertaste. A long finish o...

Oh my, this is something rather special. Beautifully crafted with the fruit full of summer flowers, framed with gentle and dusty tannins in a way that is just so harmonious. With the structure and fruit to reward a year or few in the cellar, this is one of the best reserve ruby Ports that I have tas...

Attractive fruit on the nose, with a nice depth to it on the palate. The tannins are well balanced within the fruit, supporting and not dominating giving the wine a wonderful texture. Very nice indeed. My score: 94/100; awarded a silver medal and 91 points in the 2024 DWWA.

What a lovely nose, fresh flowers and fruits of the forest - so many berries crammed into a glass! Sweet and smooth in texture but a sudden harshness to the core of fruit in the wine. Big tannins grab hold and don't relent giving the wine an extraordinary and unexpected dimension. What a fabulous fi...

Re: Christopher & Co. the oldest bottle for which I have photos of their bottlings is a Noval 1945 bottled 1950 [sic] (note still labelled as Vintage Port) at which point they were at 94 Jermyn St, London SW1; they were still at this address when bottling Fonseca 1955 in 1957, but had moved to ...

Last Thursday the AEVP organised a Port Festival in London, which included a dozen or so producers showing their 2024 Vintage Ports. Below are the tasting notes for the Ports I have not already reported on. Most are available in the UK, but if anyone wants to know where they can be bought, let me kn...

Now that Blackett have produced more than one vintage Port, we should have an abbreviation for them.

The obvious abbreviation is Bl, but is this too easily confused with the existing BI? If so, should we use Bk, which is currently under no threat of being confused with any other producer?

Poças 2015 White Colheita, bottled 2025. This has become a staple of our summer. There is no time better to drink a glass of this wine than after a hard afternoon working in the garden in temperatures of 27-28C. It is full of fruit, has enough sugar to be satisfying yet enough acidity to be balanced...

It is one of those wines made to a price point so it can be sold at a discounted price by a supermarket in the run up to Christmas (and remaindered just after Christmas). There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it, but neither is there anything special about it. It’s a good wine to recommend to people...

Thank you Phil!

jdaw1 wrote: ↑21:32 Thu 18 Jun 2026
uncle tom wrote: ↑16:00 Thu 18 Jun 2026a Dow 1896 with excellent provenance.
Please share that with others.

Perhaps Dow should be the theme of a future Old Port dinner...

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