Port related Christmas pressies
- Alex Bridgeman
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Port related Christmas pressies
Today I received a Sainsbury mini port and cheese set (Cockburn Special Reserve and a few ounces of Wensleydale), Mayson's updated edition of Port and the Douro, a wine version of Trivial Pursuit, a bottle of Niepoort Secundum 2001 and a bottle of Niepoort 2007. Yummy!
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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A rather nice original print of a map published in 1833 under the "Superintendence" of the wonderfully-titled "Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" (wiki entry, sadly no longer in existence)
Shows Oporto and its environs, together with a nice vista of the Douro from Torre da Maca.
Photo doesn't nearly do this justice, but gives an idea! (high quality image here)
Shows Oporto and its environs, together with a nice vista of the Douro from Torre da Maca.
Photo doesn't nearly do this justice, but gives an idea! (high quality image here)
Rob C.
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I received no Port or Port related items this Christmas
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
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Neither did I, thankfully - my relatives now realise that everything I could possibly want, port-wise - I have either got already, or would be far too expensive..I received no Port or Port related items this Christmas
In any event, I get far more pleasure out of giving at this time of year, than I do from receiving.
My annual consumption of whisky amounts to about one bottle per annum (at most..). This Christmas, I gave two bottles and got one back, at which rate, my stock of malts is now reduced to about a 15yr supply..
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly - W.S. Churchill
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+1DRT wrote:I received no Port or Port related items this Christmas
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Sushi dropped off a case of F85 and 4 bottles of F2009
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Hubby got from me a case of 1985 Taylor he was happy!
- Alex Bridgeman
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Nice choice! Drinking really well now, but was not very impressive a couple of years ago and so the prices dropped a bit.clawhit wrote:Hubby got from me a case of 1985 Taylor he was happy!
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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AHB wrote:Nice choice! Drinking really well now, but was not very impressive a couple of years ago and so the prices dropped a bit.clawhit wrote:Hubby got from me a case of 1985 Taylor he was happy!
Couldn't agree more was really surprised by this over the year on how much it's opened up - he was a very happy man and a bottle drunk on boxing day
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No specific port, or port-related presents, though my wife did encourage me to have some more of the (spectacularly good) Croft 70 on Boxing day morning, before a champagne breakfast and who am I to say no to that!