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... You probably should give Colheitas a second chance. ... I certainly haven't given up on them - I have another couple in the cellar waiting their turn (although not the Krohn you mention - I'll be in Lisbon in 9 days time and, if I pass a wine shop that has it, I'll pick up a bottle). It being m...

(Bottled in 2008) My first tasting note, and my first Colheita. Most ports I've tried to date have changed quite a lot after first decanting. This changed very little over 48 hours - if anything, it lost a little heat after about 4 hours - but there wasn't much there to start with. A little cloudy, ...

As the poser of the question, this has been most enlightening.
If I ever run across any of these "port-a-likes", at a decent price, I'll give them a go.

One thing that still puzzles me though is why it should be that these wines are, it seems, so far below the standard of pukka port?

DRT wrote:Yes, port-like products are made extensively in the USA, Australia and South Africa and have been for at least a century.

Ah ha!
And what do they call them?

I've been wondering this for a while, so I thought it about time to ask. For a bottle of Port to be labelled "Port" it must satisfy a bunch of criteria, principle of which is, of course, that it's grown in the appropriate demarcated Douro region of Portugal. But the techniques used in maki...

Thanks to everyone for the replies - both in public and in private. I confess I was hoping not to get too serious about Port, but earlier this week a friend I was at university with and had not communicated with for 32 years visited me here in my Portuguese hovel. What better time to crack open a bo...

I confess - I'm a bit of a port virgin. I've done a little fooling around in my time, and a little of what the Americans might call "heavy petting", but I still regard myself, basically, as a Port virgin. I've drunk quite a lot of "the cheap stuff" - I can get bottles in the supe...

I realise this thread is somewhat old, and some of the image links are dead, but I thought I'd join it rather than start a new, similar, one. I'm pretty new to port, and I was wondering what are the characteristics to look for in the "ideal" Port Decanter. I have one of these, rather lovel...

Your 63 - has it been nicely stored all these years? Should drink very nicely now. I can say, hand on heart, that I've always tried to store it as best I could. Always horizontal (almost), and in the coolest (but not frozen) place i could find. It spent a while in the UK, a while in France, and now...

I'm English, but retired, and I came to live in Portugal in 2008. I've been drinking (exclusively) red wine since I was about 10, but until I came to live in Portugal the choice was usually based on the "it's red and it's cheap" basis. Then, a couple of years ago, I wondered what "the...