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In my experience, people who are new to Port tend to prefer tawnies over rubies. I believe this to be due to the fact that rubies (which includes Dow's Midnight as well as LBVs, Crusteds, and Vintage Ports) are more similar to red wine and so draw comparisons with red wine. Port is much sweeter tha...

Hello again, I posted a topic last week and got some very good advice, thankyou. After trying Dow's Midnight Port and Taylor's 10 yo Tawny, I went to Asda, as suggested, and bought a bottle of Graham's 2003 LBV and Dow's Crusted Port. I really liked the Midnight and loved the Tawny. Today I opened t...

We certainly don't savagely pounce upon beginner mistakes and you are very welcome to ask any questions here. (Assuming no apostrophes are mis-used in the process, but it looks like Chris managed to navigate that obstacle successful! ;-) ) I'm a primary school teacher. Mis-used apostrophes are my w...

We certainly don't savagely pounce upon beginner mistakes and you are very welcome to ask any questions here. (Assuming no apostrophes are mis-used in the process, but it looks like Chris managed to navigate that obstacle successful! ;-) ) I'm a primary school teacher. Mis-used apostrophes are my w...

Hello everyone, I'm Chris and I'm new here. After buying a bottle of Dow's Midnight Port (which i now understand to be a basic ruby port) and enjoying it very much, I am interested to know where to go from here. I have made myself familiar with the different port types and am enjoying my second purc...