In subsequent email correspondence much thanks was sent; and permission given to post here.In an email with the subject “1834 Antonio de Ferrara (sic) port on Andrée's polar expedition”, Rupert Clayton wrote:I came across a reference to an old port vintage and remembered that you are working on cataloguing them. I thought this story might be interesting for your book.
The Swedish explorer S.A. Andrée's ill-fated 1897 expedition to reach the North Pole via balloon is the subject of the 2012 book, The Ice Balloon, by Alec Wilkinson. Andrée's backers included King Oscar II of Sweden, and Andrée recorded that the expedition's supplies included a bottle of "Port wine 1834 Antonio de Ferrara given by the King". Presumably this was actually from the Antónia Ferreira port house.
The party (Andreé, plus Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel) consumed the port as part of a banquet on 18 September 1897 to celebrate Sweden's Jubilee Day, the 25th anniversary of Oscar II's reign. At the time they had been travelling on foot on the pack ice for about three months pulling 400-pound sledges. They were close to exhaustion and had run quite low on food. However, they managed to shoot a seal that morning, and fried the meat for their banquet. They appeared to have saved up a lot of other supplies for the occasion, including gateaux with raspberry syrup sauce, chocolate and cheese. Andrée wrote that "the general feeling was one of the greatest pleasure, and we lay down satisfied and contented."
About two weeks later, they landed on White Island, east of Spitsbergen, and within a month they were all dead, although it's unclear how they died. Their remains were not discovered until 1930.
The banquet menu is given on page 217 of The Ice Balloon, and in several other books on the expedition.
Also see the Wikipedia article S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897.