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- 16:26 Sun 03 Nov 2024
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: 2024: Undisturbed & Other 1970s - Tues 8th October
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1088
Re: 2024: Undisturbed & Other 1970s - Tues 8th October
I didn’t attend the tasting, but I am very interested to read about the 1970 becoming less reliable / showing old age / losing fruit. Didn’t we say something similar about the 1960 vintage 15 years ago? And about the 1963 vintage about 10 years ago? Do I sense a pattern? Do we need to leave our 1970...
- 16:17 Sun 03 Nov 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Tastings (Physical & Virtual) - Planner
- Replies: 72
- Views: 57049
Re: Tastings (Physical & Virtual) - Planner
That’s a great job you do on the planner Neil. Thank you for the work!
- 18:44 Mon 28 Oct 2024
- Forum: Press Releases and Announcements
- Topic: Launch of Quinta do Noval 50YO Tawny
- Replies: 6
- Views: 567
Launch of Quinta do Noval 50YO Tawny
I’ve just received a press release announcement that Quinta do Noval are releasing a 50YO Tawny.
There is a dedicated website which can be found here.
There is a dedicated website which can be found here.
- 07:24 Mon 07 Oct 2024
- Forum: Other Fortified Wines
- Topic: NV 30 Year Old Moscatel Bodegas Malaga Virgen
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2888
Re: NV 30 Year Old Moscatel Bodegas Malaga Virgen
Malaga is one of those wines which lasts virtually forever - it’s fortified, it has high sugar content and the best have high acidity. I’ve drunk bottles which are decades old and which have been delicious - I had one recently which was bottled about 60 years ago.
- 08:12 Sun 06 Oct 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 50 Year Old Tawnies - 1 October 2024
- Replies: 81
- Views: 39776
Re: 50 Year Old Tawnies - 1 October 2024
Thanks for posting the score sheet Mike. That’s a very interesting result. Very surprised by the Sandeman! Most people seem to have gone for power over finesse in their 50yo blends with, in my limited experience, the notable exception of Sandeman. Their biggest and most powerful tawny is the 40yo wi...
- 15:21 Fri 04 Oct 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 50 Year Old Tawnies - 1 October 2024
- Replies: 81
- Views: 39776
Re: 50 Year Old Tawnies - 1 October 2024
Yes please, someone post their thoughts on the wines and the scoresheet for those of us who couldn’t be there.
I’m thinking of Glenn, obviously, since I’m British and therefore only drink Vintage Port.
I’m thinking of Glenn, obviously, since I’m British and therefore only drink Vintage Port.
- 15:16 Fri 04 Oct 2024
- Forum: Reference
- Topic: Port brand abbreviations
- Replies: 395
- Views: 345093
Re: Port brand abbreviations
Carlos Alonso Douro Wines Lda have vineyards around Alijó. While mainly a winemaker, they have also been making Vintage Port for the last decade or so and have declared several vintages in those years. Their Vintage Ports are bottled, shipped and sold under the Piano brand. (Their Peace & Love b...
- 15:11 Fri 04 Oct 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2022 Declarations
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12459
Re: 2022 Declarations
Just seen on Instagram that Carlos Alonso Douro Wines Lda. declared a 2022 Vintage Port. Now added to the list.
Since this is about their fifth vintage, we need an abbreviation for them…
Since this is about their fifth vintage, we need an abbreviation for them…
- 09:50 Tue 01 Oct 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6707
Re: Bring a bottle - Mon 18th Nov 2024
I’m still a maybe.
- 09:46 Tue 01 Oct 2024
- Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
- Topic: Port Wine Cocktails
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1496
Re: Port Wine Cocktails
Love it! Both my children have espresso martini as their cocktail of choice. I will try this out on them.
Thank you.
Thank you.
- 15:23 Mon 23 Sep 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2217
- Views: 994423
Re: Latest buy
£59 a bottle for a limited edition, old vines, highly selective Port is a ridiculously good price. Nice buy!winesecretary wrote: ↑15:16 Mon 23 Sep 2024 4 more bottles of 2008 Niepoort Bioma from Fareham for a very reasonable £218 delivered - not very much money for a port that is lovely now and will be lovely later.
- 23:34 Fri 20 Sep 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1963 Gonzalez Byass
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1149
1963 Gonzalez Byass
We only have one tasting note for this Port so I thought it was about time to post another. Gonzalez Byass 1963. Decanted 4 hours. Rose red colour, 40% opaque. Gentle spiced cedar wood and redcurrant jelly on the nose. Elegant on the palate with the redcurrant showing beautifully, clean and fresh. H...
- 23:24 Tue 17 Sep 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2217
- Views: 994423
- 17:05 Tue 17 Sep 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2217
- Views: 994423
Re: Latest buy
I don’t often post in this thread these days, but I called in to Four Walls Wines on my way home this afternoon. I couldn’t resist this: IMG_9311.jpeg IMG_9315.jpeg IMG_9314.jpeg With an IVP sello the wine was clearly released prior to 2003. Judging by the type-face of the label and the bottle, my g...
- 13:22 Mon 16 Sep 2024
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: 2024: 1982 Horizontal - Tue 10th Sept
- Replies: 3
- Views: 890
Re: 2024: 1982 Horizontal - Tue 10th Sept
Thanks for the overall review Mike. It’s always useful to read summaries like this of where vintages are in their lifespan.
- 19:43 Sun 15 Sep 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 12 December 2024 - The TPF Xmas Tasting
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3449
Re: 12 December 2024 - The TPF Xmas Tasting
I am nudged to remember to update the first post. It won’t be tonight, but should be in the next day or few.
- 11:56 Sun 15 Sep 2024
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2022 Calem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1305
Re: 2022 Calem
Ever since my wife gave me a(n opened) bottle of Vesuvio 1989 for Christmas 1992 we’ve had a tradition of having a very recent VP as the red wine to go with our Christmas lunch. Most years this is Vesuvio, but this year it’s going to be Cálem. I’ve said elsewhere that I think Carlos Alves and his wi...
- 12:21 Sat 14 Sep 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Latest buy
- Replies: 2217
- Views: 994423
Re: Latest buy
]Mystery bottle from an auction...any help with identifying pre pulling the cork would be much appreciated. James keith appears to be the importer and claimed 1930s by the auction house...#help :tpf: :) Not a clue so I think you're just going to have to make it over to Newport (Essex) for the Chris...
- 13:06 Tue 10 Sep 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Corkage on the rise
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1752
Re: Corkage on the rise
I guess the corkage policy depends on how busy the restaurant is. If they’re packed out every night with a waiting list as long as your arm, they can charge what they like. Personally, I eat out for the food and not for the wine. If my favourite restaurant has a good wine list at sensible prices tha...
- 12:53 Tue 10 Sep 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: 2022 Declarations
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12459
- 20:20 Mon 09 Sep 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 50 Year Old Tawnies - 1 October 2024
- Replies: 81
- Views: 39776
Re: 50 Year Old Tawnies - 1 October 2024
I'm really sorry Mike, as this is a tasting that I very much wanted to attend, but it now seems unlikely that I'll be able to make it.
Could you drop me from being a confirmed attendee to a reserve please?
Could you drop me from being a confirmed attendee to a reserve please?
- 14:55 Mon 09 Sep 2024
- Forum: Reference
- Topic: Wine themed Films
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12412
Re: Wine themed Films
I’ve just got back from watching Widow Clicquot.
It was so-so. My suggestion to anyone thinking of going to see it is perhaps to wait until it’s on Amazon / Netflix / somewhere.
It was so-so. My suggestion to anyone thinking of going to see it is perhaps to wait until it’s on Amazon / Netflix / somewhere.
- 14:51 Mon 09 Sep 2024
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: 1982 Horizontal - Tue 10th Sept 2024
- Replies: 97
- Views: 23693
- 23:17 Sat 07 Sep 2024
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port for sale by retailer
- Replies: 1574
- Views: 957703
Re: Port for sale by retailer
Good luck with the Camino. That’s a lot of walking.
Did you buy one so you can tell us whether it’s worth €11?
Did you buy one so you can tell us whether it’s worth €11?
- 23:49 Thu 05 Sep 2024
- Forum: Reference
- Topic: Port brand abbreviations
- Replies: 395
- Views: 345093
Re: Port brand abbreviations
Perhaps an email to someone at Fonseca is in order? Does anyone have a contact that they could ask? Was Guimaraens a separate company that released its own Ports back in the day? And why do the more recent (1982, 2015) bottles of Quinta do Cruzeiro say Guimaraens but not Fonseca? (I.e. does TFP sti...