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I placed my per-order today. Thanks for the the e-mail reminding laggards like me.

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How long did you decant this one? Or did you pop and pour?

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While I was doing my usual shopping today, I decided to further stock up on Niepoort's 2011 LBV, so I put two bottles into the trolley. At home I was surprised to find that one bottle was bottled in 2015 (like the other bottles that I have) and one in 2016. So I wonder a) if different bottling years...

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For Riesling lovers I can recommend these two wines: Wiltinger Riesling Dry, von Kesselstatt 2014 http://www.thewinesociety.com/shop/productdetail.aspx?section=pd&pl=&pd=GE8941&pc=&prl= A very tasty Saar river Riesling. Very good value, too. Jordan Estate The Real McCoy Riesling, Ste...

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First of all, you’re welcome. I’m glad you take an interest in Riesling. I’m always happy to make converts. If you shop the next time at Waitrose, try their Künstler Hochheimer Hölle Riesling. This is from the Rheingau. A region you seem to prefer over the Mosel (since you liked the Breuer one bette...

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We had a similar discussion before: http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8774&hilit=closure They're calld Vinolok: http://vinolok.cz/en/home/ August Eser use a similar shaped bottle for one of their wines: http://www.august-eser-weinshop.de/epages/63703322.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Sh...

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In addition to the Sandeman, I would recommend the following LBVs for cellaring:

- Niepoort
- Noval (unfiltered)
- Rozes
- Warre (unfiltered)

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djewesbury wrote:Yes - you need to use a proxy server that tells the BBC website that you're in the UK. It's worth it.

Using a proxy server? Oh dear, I guess I'm not foxy enough for proxy. (Sorry, I'm in my pun mood today).

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I guess this forum is more about hedonic drinking, but I would like to draw attention to a little book that was published by OUP some weeks ago: 'Hedonic Eating: How the Pleasure of Food Affects Our Brains and Behavior". :tpf: Lifecoach-General will probably like chapter eight: "The Influe...

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djewesbury wrote:Did anybody bother watching this? Fascinating. He went to Vesuvio too.

I would like to watch it, but the iPlayer is only working when you're in the UK (something to do with IP-range).

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Croft Port has opened its estate in the Douro Valley to the public having completed work on its new visitor centre at Quinta da Roêda: http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2015/09/croft-opens-douro-estate-to-tourists/ http://croftport.com/en/visit-us/quinta-da-roeda-douro-valley/ There are now two more ...

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Egon Müller’s 2003 Scharzhofberger Trockenbeerenauslese smashed records last week when it sold for €12,000 a bottle at the VDP Prädikat wine auction in Trier:
http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2015/0 ... on-record/

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DRT wrote: Stranger things have happened, Andre. Who know, perhaps one day Daniel might even admit he is wrong about something?

Hm, he's a (university) teacher. And teachers are always right. But I don't want to temper your hope.

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Being a foreigner, I didn't know Michael Portillo. Thus I looked him up on Wikipedia. I think it's strange that a politician should turn into a successful TV presenter. I would have thought that people would be fed up with a politician once he's left the byzantine world of scheming and self-enrichme...

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I am currently dining alone at the Kameha Grand hotel in Bonn (I caught the afternoon flight. My colleagues planned to catch the cancelled evening flight). On the wine list is a modest selection of port: Quinta do Noval ruby NV @ €7 per 5cl glass or €46 per bottle Quinta do Noval white NV @ €7 per ...

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djewesbury wrote:You should have met André for dinner in the Vintage, down the road in Köln.

You're quite right.

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I guess :TPF: cricket lovers will like the Spiegel magazine's picture of the day for the 5th of September: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/augenblicke-bilder-des-tages-2015-fotostrecke-122824.html It shows some (elderly) gentlemen trying to catch the ball that Australia's Shane Watson hit into the...

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A dinner tray?

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jdaw1 wrote:Please could the OP consider renaming this thread to “Port at airports”.

Happy to oblige.

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In Gothenburg Landvetter airport they sell Andresen 1995 Colheita in the (non-)Duty Free shop. You are not allowed to buy ANY alcohol if you are flying within the EU. Offering good port and then not selling it is clearly teasing. Not very civilised in my opinion. :( Why is it not allowed to buy it ...

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Do you know how long this was decanted?

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I guess you should contact the guys from Vintageport.se:
http://www.vintageport.se/about.php

They will know who will be avaiable for port in Gothenburg.

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If you want to try a wide range of ports by various producers by the glass, you should visit the "Solar do vinho do porto": http://www.ivdp.pt/pagina.asp?idioma=1&codPag=169 http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g189158-d195862-Reviews-Solar_do_Vinho_do_Porto-Lisbon_Lisbon_Dis...

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jdaw1 wrote:
AW77 wrote:Separately, the use of “DMGs” is painful. Why is the ‘G’ capitalised? Indeed, why is it there at all?

I think this acronym is here to increase the already high number of abbreviations in the wine world. We wouldn't want to let everyone know so easily what we are talking about, would we?

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DaveRL wrote:I'm not keen on excessively jammy or minty qualities in wines.

Do you also mean excessively sweet by "jammy" or simply excessively fruity? In my limited experience a port tastes less sweet the older it gets. Does anyone know why? (I guess the sugar level is still the same).

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Is ‘double-magnum’ a compound noun, so hyphenated, or should it be an adjective and a noun, so non-hyphenatedly ‘double magnum’? Compare: • We drank three double-magnums. • We drank three double magnums. I prefer the hyphen, but am willing to concede to a contrary consensus. I guess if you drink th...

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Will someone (Daniel?) film this historic match and thus preserve it for posterity?

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I'm delighted to hear that you try more Italian wines.

PS: I think the wine is called "Le Poiane": http://www.bolla.com/specialselections/lepoiane.html

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Astronauts sample salad grown on ISS:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stati ... ady_to_eat

I wonder if grapes would grow in space...

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That's a nice little collection you bought there. Perhaps you should ask them if they also ship their wines abroad.
Did you also visit the Badie (http://www.badie.com) wine shop in Bordeaux?

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This surely is a great wine-shop. What did you buy there?
Btw, here is their website: http://www.intendant.com/eng

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In their current e-mail-newsletter the Wegeler Estates announced that the Queen was served their 2009 Wegeler Geheimrat »J« Riesling Sekt brut at the state banquet in Berlin: http://www.wegeler.com/nc/en/wine-details/wein/sekt-geheimrat-j-riesling-sekt-ba-brut-2009-ba-brut-750.html?tx_cagtsf%5Bback%...

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There is also a 1976 Niepoort Colheita: http://www.niepoort-vinhos.com/de/ports ... .html#1976
It was bottled in 2004. You can get it for 75 Euros on the German market (shipping costs to the UK are quite low, so this should not be a problem).

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At BBR's homepage, you can take a virtual tour of the warehouse:
http://www.bbr.com/virtual-tour-warehouse
I guess the thieves were quite grateful for this planning tool.

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LGTrotter wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
DaveRL wrote:Learning points from last year.
You will be offered a glass of sparkles. Decline.
I thought that it was a very nice glass. Accept.

I liked it too.
But I understand that it distracts from the main reason to go to the PortWalk.

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The technical sheet says it was bottled in 2012:
http://www.quintadaromaneira.pt/files/t ... 07-ing.pdf
A local shop has this LBV so I'm tempted to get some (hence the research here on TPF and on the Romaneira website).

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Further research shows that Her Majesty had a Stigler Freiburg Schlossberg Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) Weisherbst (Blanc de Noir) Beerenauslese with her dessert at the state banquet in Berlin. The vintage is not disclosed in this press article: http://www.badische-zeitung.de/ihringen/was-sagt-der-win...

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I thought it would be fun to do some research on what Her Majesty will be drinking during her state visit to Germany. So far only little information can be found. But this is definitely one she will try with her lunch in Frankfurt on Thursday: 1953 Kloster Eberbach Assmannshäuser Höllenberg Spätburg...

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Rozès also declared a VP in 2008:
http://www.rozes.com.pt/index.php?optio ... Itemid=231

See my TN here:
http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8039

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Hurray, Daniel is back.

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That's a good question. Perhaps it would be a good idea to wear hard hats when drinking a lot of port.

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Made of 100% Moscatel in the Spanish region of Málaga. Bottled after 20 months in French oak barrel: The first glas: brown colour, smells of caramel and quince (the nose somehow reminds me of a 5-year-old Madeira), medium body, not that sweet, in the mouth caramel and quince, it's also a littly bit ...

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6 x 2011 Niepoort Crusted
I bought a bottle each time I did my weekly shopping at the civilised supermarket. I will continue to do so until they run out of stock.

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This sounds like a case of spring fever. Did you also take a smell at the budding flowers in your garden?

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Owen, I'm glad you're having a good time.

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There was an obituary in the local paper which said that de Oliveira made a living during the Salazar years by making port wine on the estate that his wife had inherited. I guess what the journalist meant was that he ran the quinta and sold the grapes to port companies.

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DRT wrote:D+6h - this wine has developed a serious problem

Do you mean the decanter is empty?

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I wonder if this is just the standard Fonseca Crusted that is released every year (this time with a bicentenary label) or really something more special to mark the occasion. The press release doesn't really give any information on the quality of the Crusted.

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Andy Velebil wrote:way to uncomfortable.

I guess these were just the waiters planning for the night's event.

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djewesbury wrote:Not at all. I can smell the future coming.

Or this might just be the smell of JC's exhaust.

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