Wine Folly is a sometimes entertaining wine blog by Madeline Puckette. She seems to have partnered with a wine delivery company for an online tasting: presumably attendees share comments about this and that. So
Wine Awesomeness wrote:We've teamed up with Wine Folly to celebrate the launch of their book, Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine. This box includes 3 awesome wines, tasting notes, music suggestions, perfect pairings, and wine wisdom from Wine Folly.
Whoa! Wine now comes with “music suggestions”. Hoity-toity-tastic!
Pray, kind readers of , what would be your “music suggestions” to go with:
• Fonseca 1970?
• Graham Malvedos 1986?
• Sandeman Vau 2003?
• Ramos Pinto 20Y tawny?
jdaw1 wrote:
Pray, kind readers of , what would be your “music suggestions” to go with:
• Fonseca 1970? - Rule Britannia
• Graham Malvedos 1986? - The theme from Miami Vice
• Sandeman Vau 2003? - Fat Bottomed Girls
• Ramos Pinto 20Y tawny? - Last of the Summer Wine
"The first duty of Port is to be red" Ernest H. Cockburn
Fonseca 1970? - Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is a good option. An alternative might be Fanfare for the common man by Copeland.
Graham Malvedos 1986? - I have not had the pleasure I believe so cannot comment.
Sandeman Vau 2003? - Quite young and brash at present. Mussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain.
Ramos Pinto 20Y tawny? - Tawny would be a lighter, longer, contemplative piece of music. Baroque and J.S. Bach would work. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 perhaps.
My question inspired by my thought of the 2003 Vau is does the size of bottle affect one's choice of music?
griff wrote:Fonseca 1970? - Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is a good option. An alternative might be Fanfare for the common man by Copeland
Good call. I can quite picture myself sitting in a leather armchair with a glass and decanter of Fonseca 1970 with Fanfare for the Common Man playing as I take my first sip.
Griff wrote:Ramos Pinto 20Y tawny? - Tawny would be a lighter, longer, contemplative piece of music. Baroque and J.S. Bach would work. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 perhaps.
I felt something smoother and more languid would be needed for the RP20. I did consider Baroque (although I was thinking Music for the Royal Fireworks) but it was too lively and not mellifluous enough. I ended up choosing between Moon River and Summertime from Porgy & Bess (the Billie Holiday version, of course, although I do like the version which Ella Fitzgerald sang). Moon River won out when I decided that Summertime needed a chilled Sandeman 20yo.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
AHB wrote:I felt something smoother and more languid would be needed for the RP20. I did consider Baroque (although I was thinking Music for the Royal Fireworks) but it was too lively and not mellifluous enough. I ended up choosing between Moon River and Summertime from Porgy & Bess (the Billie Holiday version, of course, although I do like the version which Ella Fitzgerald sang). Moon River won out when I decided that Summertime needed a chilled Sandeman 20yo.
Händel is a good shout. How about the Largo from Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.3/2, HWV 313?
Well I absolutely loved watching these, but found myself wondering which ports from each of those vintages would match the music. Roobarb and Custard for a 1975? Which port from that vintage would have enough life and bounce to live up to the soundtrack?
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
A great thread. I particularly liked Alex's suggestions - "With cat-like tread" made me laugh, and I envisaged a "rogue" glass of GM86 at a tasting creeping unseen onto another glass place to try and get drunk, and being chased back to it's own; Maybe later we might hear Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, as the poor unwanted GM86 starts to believe it will never be drunk and slinks off to a corner, finally perhaps Mozart's Marriage of Figaro as the glass is coaxed back to the table to be drunk and enjoyed, and fulfils its destiny.