Pathe News Archive
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I was browsing through the Pathe News archive (as one does) and came across this footage of the 1953 harvest. I think this is Quinta de Roriz. Can anyone confirm this?
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I also found this footage of the boats coming downriver in 1923.
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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The chapel looks familiar but the vineyard looks steeper and more of a tight crucible than I remember seeing at Roriz.AHB wrote:I was browsing through the Pathe News archive (as one does) and came across this footage of the 1953 harvest. I think this is Quinta de Roriz. Can anyone confirm this?
Interesting that Pathe brought nice white costumes for the pickers to wear
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It looks familiar as you've both stood outside it. Allow me to remind you about the Capela at Quinta St. Luiz
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From 0:56 to 1:00 the camera lingers on a large bunch of grapes. Are they rather water-swollen? Is that why ’53 wasn’t declared?
Separately, would it be worth writing to Pathe Archive suggesting that the description mention the specific quinta?
Separately, would it be worth writing to Pathe Archive suggesting that the description mention the specific quinta?
- “There are five main types of Port. Four are matured in wood, but the fifth, vintage, the wine of a specially good year, is usually matured in bottle after eighteen months or so in wood.”
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Colheita, garrafeira, tawny and...another one...TWAIOA?jdaw1 wrote:Name the four.
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If “garrafeira”, then LBV (which had been around for ages and which Taylor Fladgate were about to invent). And, neither more nor less than garrafeira, crusted.
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In 1950s Britain I would suggest White, Ruby, Tawny, a multitude of non-regulated terms to describe aged tawny from either one or many vintages.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
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A separate discussion on Garrafeira split into a new thread by DRT.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
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This may be a trivial remark, but the music would drive me crazy if I had to hear for a whole day. BTW: Does anyone know what tunes are played today?
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I have never seen dancing not heard music in the vineyards of the Douro during harvest. The only time that seems to happen is in the lagar at night when everyone is full of hooch.AW77 wrote:This may be a trivial remark, but the music would drive me crazy if I had to hear for a whole day. BTW: Does anyone know what tunes are played today?
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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I love these films; I've only had a chance to look at them now. I thought I could just see AHB and DRT offering expert advice to the steersman on the old Douro barque in this film.AHB wrote:I also found this footage of the boats coming downriver in 1923.
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- Alex Bridgeman
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If you look closely, you can also see Uncle Tom on one of the boats in the background. He's on the boat where they are drinking 1855 Unknown colheita that has never been refreshed...djewesbury wrote:I love these films; I've only had a chance to look at them now. I thought I could just see AHB and DRT offering expert advice to the steersman on the old Douro barque in this film.AHB wrote:I also found this footage of the boats coming downriver in 1923.
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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Not Pathe this time, but the rather more prosaic YouTube but I came across a Ferreira short called The Luxury of Time that seems to have been made by the same people who made the Ne Oublie videos.
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.
- Alex Bridgeman
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And here's the link to the Ne Oublie video for those who have not seen it.
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.