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Aficionados of fine port will be aware of the fact that for well over a century Quinta do Bomfim has served as the bedrock of Dow’s vintage ports. Bottled with some regularity as a single quinta vintage since 1948, Bomfims are oftentimes very good and rarely disappoint. The 1987 Quinta do Bomfim whi...

The question of optimal, vintage port-decanting times would appear to constitute an insoluble conundrum: there are the minimalists such as Mr. Bridge, CEO of The Fladgate Partnership, and those who set out to consume a bottle over two or three days, in the expectation that the wine might be enriched...

Yes, please, should a spot remain.

Perhaps of interest:

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There are those in the know who rate the 1987 Taylor Vargellas as the best wine of the vintage. In the event, prior to 19 April 2020 I had never tried it. For inexplicable reasons, I have only ever found a single bottle at auction over the last three or four years and, consequently, I was until rece...

This bottle was never in the cellar. It was in the house. How it came to be in the house, I have no idea. What I do know is that it was resting upon the footwear cupboard in the vestibule for quite some time, where it would catch my eye occasionally and I would wonder what to do with it. I most cert...

For well over a century, the grapes produced at Quinta da Roeda have constituted the backbone of Croft’s vintage ports; and, according to Mr. Wiseman, it is possible that Roeda vintage port, bottled as such, first appeared during the 1880s. Fond as I am of the Croft style, I was very much looking fo...

I have had occasion elsewhere to liken Burmester vintage ports to reliable, second-label clarets. Aside from Burmester’s 1984 and 1985 bottlings, which show an extraordinarily-high propensity towards cork taint, Burmester vintages, colheitas and tawnies tend to make for agreeable imbibing at reasona...

Whilst I remain largely unfamiliar with the cultural peculiarities of theportforum.com gatherings, the meeting convened through our computers on 07 April 2020 was positively Dionysian: there was the celebration of wine and, in keeping with the Dionysia, a great deal of comedic theatre. The oddly-nam...

I'm in, if not too late.

I should like to add my profuse thanks to Mike, Simon (the official scorekeeper) and indeed all participants for the wonderful welcome afforded to me as well as the most laughter I have for a month.

unsure, at this point, of the object of the exercise beyond convivial drinking. Convivial drinking very very important. Subsidiary objective can be seen in the likes of this post (names of wines in left column; names of guessers in top row; returning officer enters guesses one guesser at a time; wh...

I have a printer - although I would require careful supervision, having never met any of the participants and being unsure, at this point, of the object of the exercise beyond convivial drinking. At any rate, I shall stand by to be pressed into service.

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑04:00 Mon 06 Apr 2020 Ok thanks. I recall having a Port from his company under screwcap way back around 2007/08-ish. Quite the controversy when he did so.

Meeting Mr. Montez is most certainly on my to-do list, which is to note that I shall ask him.

Was this vintage sealed by a screw-cap or cork? Cork. To the best of my knowledge, Miguel Montez started to use screw-caps somewhere around the year 2000, and then only on still wines bottled under the Quinta do Cotto label. The last Champalimaud VP to be marketed, from the 2001 vintage (additional...

Pre-coronavirus-induced-mass discombobulation, I addressed the Montez Champalimaud family’s brief engagement as a port shipper; in particular, in the context of its 1989 vintage port (http://theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13280). Whereas the said pandemic is indisputably a serious threat t...

Current draft of the paperwork has been updated. My initials are WHW Fixed. Google was not unambiguous — but I chose wrongly. “William”, or “Will”? "Will" or "Bill," in accordance with others' preferences; most call me Bill. "William" conjures visions in my mind of sho...

Current draft of the paperwork has been updated. Should there be space - or rather, the necessary bandwidth - I would be delighted to join. Added. I’ve guessed your initials to be WTW: if wrong, please correct. Thanks so very much J. My initials are WHW, though I'll change my middle name to Taylor ...

Should there be space - or rather, the necessary bandwidth - I would be delighted to join. I have not yet had the chance to meet any of you - to my great regret - though I did have a lovely chat with Oscar Quevedo at his property, last summer.

By any standard, your correspondent has a great deal to learn, most especially where port wine is concerned. Notwithstanding his having advanced deep into middle age, he has not yet reached the point in life at which he feels himself ready to counsel younger men that there is nothing that he does no...

VJ Day falls on 15 August.

Your correspondent was looking forward to the dinner party on 01 March 2020: friends of friends from the New World – port neophytes both – were in town and most anything would do. And Her Ladyship, who had a head cold, declared magnanimously that, under the circumstances, she had no preference with ...

In the glass, the contents of this bottle, consumed on 24 October 2019 after a nine-hour decant, presented the eye with enticing, semi-opaque, chestnut-burgundy hues crowned with a clear rim. The nose was somewhat restrained although earth, minerals, floral notes, stewed red fruits and spice were al...