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I like the idea of the 58s too, served blind.

Daniel, not sure if this year I'm able to make it Belfast, my wife is pregnant and we expect the baby in October. I may have to skip Belfast this year. Let me know if you come to Portugal soon.

Thank you Julian for opening up the discussion.

In my opinion, I'd go for a theme and certainly blind!

Thank you all for your words. The whole family is happy to read this here. and so we smile.

Interesting thread, Port geeks getting into Port chemicals. My view which is quite similar with yours: - baume is strictly related with density and sugar, as Jeff pointed; there is no correlation between baume and acidity - the acidity that you can find in wine (not the added during fermentation or ...

Thank you to all of you that has shown interest in our 2011 Vintage. Also big thank you to the admins of The Port Forum for letting me post this offer here. I can imagine that pretty much everyone that wanted to get some of our 2011 en primeur already did it. Anyways, the offer finishes this Friday,...

Alex, I'll try to coordinate this with each one of you. I may need help later, but then I'll ask for that. Ian, you can let me know what would you want to get of the V11. The easiest and cheapest is probably send all to Seckford Wines and then see case by case. But with the volumes we are having con...

Interest has been expressed in buying Quevedo 2011 for delivery to the UK, in-bond. Transport would be most efficiently done in one larger order, rather than several smaller orders. If you want, please PM or email me and I’ll send prices and make arrangements. oscar at quevedoportwine dot com

Thank you Julian, I've made my first placemts! It is possible

Ben, I'll do what I can to make sure you have fun. However, this time is going to be very easy....

Theme - bring a bottle of port to share (note: does not have to be vintage; Oscar quite likes sweet, brown sticky port <<shudder in horror icon>>) I’m in. Hurray! Rather lacking in brown stickies should I adopt or bring red? I have taken AHB's words as a direct instruction from the organiser to bri...

I Jacob, I want two of your Port Tasting Notebooks (need to give one to my sister), so please let me know the easiest way to get it. Paypal works for me too!

As Daniel says, very likely it is Santa Marta rather than Maria! If it's Caves Santa Marta it is a co-op winery located in Santa Marta de Penaguião, few km north of Régua, Baixo-Corgo. Decent White Port comes from that area. It is a big co-op with an important rule in the local vinegrowing but as m...

Derek, I'm glad to know that all our blending efforts during a cloudy and rainy morning spent at the tasting room, turn out in a nice blend! The idea was to make a blend with good structure and complexity, with a lot of aging potential. And as 2008 Ports have a lot of this, it was not that hard. I'm...

I like the idea of a tattoo on my (out of form) right arm!

Good question g-man! No we don't, but as we use similar Ports for topping up I'm not sure if you would find significant differences between batches. In any case, I'd prefer to have these samples since the beginning of the topping off. But that's is more extra work!!!

Julian, well done!! This is precious content for the Port trade and I foresee some refreshing in the site mentioned above. So does your comments will help me to fix some sections of the blog.

Oscar

Of course you can Jacob, pleasure to talk about that! We use to top up every six months, both pipas and balseiros. Last week we top up all the balseiros of 14.000 liters with around 200 liters. It's important to keep them completely full because we want to have a slow oxidation resulting from the co...

Time to put my two cents in. Actually, I think there is no answer for this, not from the legal side, neither from the producer’s point of view. Why? On the legal side, IVDP says that a Colheita is a ‟Port Wine from single harvest”, so 100% of the Port, the total amount from a single vintage. But on...

Is it reliably possible to deduce, from the name of a Quinta, which preposition (‟do”, ‟da”, ‟de”, ‟dos”, other) it would take? Is there a rule, whether or not complicated, that can be applied? The simple answer is no. The preposition is based on the gender of the noun, and there is no guarante...

AHB wrote:I can't believe I've just spent 5 minutes of my life reading this thread. What a waste of time when I could have been drinking port instead.

This post is hilarious... and I fell into the same trap you did Alex

It was a great evening, I'm happy to see that the Port Wine lovers from the UK are in pretty good shape!

It was a shame you couldn't make it Alex, but we know we can't always have everybody...

See you all on Monday! Everything blind tasting, right?

Are 2010 Ports allowed?

Oscar

Hey Oscar, Have you seen any raisining of the grapes? Or possibly, is the ground water suppy sufficent to provide the vines with the needed mositure? Marc Hi Marc, we have noticed some sunburn in Quinta da Alegria, which is different from raisining. As you may know, raisining comes after full matur...

Hi Ronald, this is a good point. In 2003 the total burnt area was 372k ha, while in 2005 117k. This year forecasts point at 100k ha, lower than any of these two years. But in both 2003 and 2005 it rained before the starting of the harvest, helping rinsing the grapes.

Weather keeps cooling off but forecasts show a new heat wave for the weekend. No signals of rain yet. It would be helpful not only for irrigating the vines but as Tom points, to rinse the dust. The risk of fire in the north of Portugal is being reduce, so probably no more fires will occur in the Dou...