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bman

My goodness, isn't the internet a wonderful thing. Not only do I get to re-connect with my old pal KillerB, but I get to be helpful to a fellow long-suffering Ontario wine drinker. Oh, wait a minute, forgot that 'long-suffering" is no more needed in front of "Ontario wine drinker" tha...

bman

Sadly, my son will still have a week of his co-op work term left so will not be available (he likes NYC though, as do we all). It seems unlikely that we could attend but one never knows - what is the deadline for putting our names in?

I've sent you a private email in any case.

bman

Ronnie just flagged this offline to me over on the WS forums (thanks Ronnie! 88) ) and my wife and I would love to attend but I doubt that we'll be able to do so due to family commitments. Still, we will immediately increase the number of lottery tickets we buy each week in the hopes of cashing in b...

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These TNs are from 36 hours after opening, of which the first 12 were spent in an open decanter after which it was stoppered. Medium full bodied, medium sweet. Lots of alcohol on the nose even after so much air but not overly alcoholic in the mouth. Just the beginning of the pale rim at the edge of ...

bman

Medium full bodied, smooth and medium sweet. Very very dark in the glass, colour right to the edge of the rim suggests it could age much more, though it seemed mature.

I tasted black cherry, coffee, bittersweet chocolate, cola, Sambuca, and sweet BBQ sauce.

I score this 91 points.

bman

Tasted over Christmas. Decanted only one hour. My notes below should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt as I had a stuffy nose, the beginning of a cold, when tasted. Drier than most vintage ports, typically Dow. I tasted currants, fig, some cherry, menthol and some smokiness. I should have d...

bman

Hey tsunami, it's been a while!

You are long overdue for a North American offline. Ottawa is lovely in the summer, BTW, Toronto and Montreal can be nice too....

bman

I can't add any further notes as there was none left the next day

I will say though that I think that the roughness is due to its youth, and I expect this to be really nice some years in the future. That said, I'm only going to get a couple more.

bman

Tasted last week, from a half bottle. After a mere 3 hours in the decanter, medium body, medium sweet. Colour a little lighter than expected, though the wine was still rich and classier, more so than I recalled from my only previous bottles about 6 years ago. I tasted dark chocolate, alcohol-infused...

bman

From a half bottle. Just opened and decanted a couple of hours ago. A little dusty but nicely sweet and rich, though still a bit hot. Perhaps this will dissipate which more time in the decanter? The colour goes right to the rim, suggesting that it is not fully mature, which is borne out on the tasti...

bman

[quote="uncle tom"]I've been working my way slowly through a Rebello Valente '70 /quote]

See my TNs for this wine here:

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bman

Nor a Canadian backlash, though I will say that I have had a single vintage port young, that I enjoyed, namely the 97 Sandeman Vau. for whatever reason, both times I've tried this (first about 3 or 4 years ago, then again a couple of years ago), I've enjoyed it even though it should have been WWWAAA...

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Are you developing a taste for Aussie dessert wines KB? Once you're ensnared, there's no going back, you know....

bman

Wow, what a line-up. One of these days I wanna try a really really old port, preferably in more comfy clothing....

bman

I wonder if this is where all the Berry Brothers 94 Own Label vintage port has gone. I liked it a lot the one time I tried it, but it's been gone for a while.

bman

Hallelujah, I'm no longer "cheap ruby"!

Not sure I'm much better off, though....

bman

Suckling seems to have lost interest in ports, judging by the dearth of stories and general reviews he's done in WS over the past few years. Still, when asked, he's always signalled an intention to update his book (one of these days), and to publish TNs on some older vintages, again, "one of th...

bman

Nevermind - I thought this thread was about me....

bman

My experience over the past few years with anything from 77 or the 80s is that it's better the next day, even when decanted in the morning and tasted in the evening. That said, I've put a stopper in the decanter overnight, but still enjoyed those ports more the second evening that the day I decanted...

bman

Had a 1970 Rebello Valente last week that was definitely mature - TNs in that forum.

bman

Tasted from a half bottle, tragically it was much less enjoyable than when last tasted a y ear and a half ago. Medium sweet and body, I tasted honey, nougat, blueberry and candied fruit. Short finish. A good port but much less than it was when tasted above, possibly due to the fact that I'm sufferin...

bman

Very light, in colour and body, almost like a beaujolais or valpolicella - you can see right through it in the glass. Nicely pale-pink halo around the rim in the glass. Medium-sweet and quite alcoholic, even after several hours in the decanter. Raspberry, bitter orange, quince, cinnamon, with some m...

bman

[quote="KillerB"]I forgot

21. Biennial meeting with bman.[/quote]

We gotta make those more frequent, and on this side of the pond, one of these days....

bman

Indeed. I'm from Windsor where the same thing happened. All the major downtown streets are in French, as are many of the surnames, but it's only spoken in some towns outside of Windsor

bman

(insert graemlin with big, beamin Canadian smile here.....)

bman

Yes, but I'll leave it to Alex or Stevie to tell, since it was them what did the strainin'!

bman

bman

Hi guys, thanks for the welcome. I believe that I have offlined (several times in some cases) with a sizable chunk of the membership here. As it grows, I hope that continues to be true! I hate to disappoint Luc, but in fact my wife is one of the one million+ French Canadians NOT from Quebec. Ottawa ...

bman

Umm, no, that's not what I meant. Like I said last night, it was late.

I meant filtering without aid of any kind of filter.

Though come to think of it, I'd rather strain port through my fingers than my teeth, as I understand some people do....

bman

I give up for tonight, I gotta go to bed.....

bman

Wait a minute, I'm at 10 and I'm still cheap ruby!

Whazzup??!!

bman

I won't be in Europe in July, but at least I now have 10 posts and will no longer be ruby port - not that I'm sure that Bin 27 is any better....

bman

Nobody but winos and teenagers like Bin 27.

I don't know if I can stand being even that, much less ruby.

I may have to stay here all night just to build my post count up to something halfway decent like Otima tawny

bman

I'm bringing another bottle of the Dutschke to Windsor for my sister to try next week. She lives for dessert wines, I'm keen to see if this one is too much for her.

Also a 70 Rebello Valenti and some other treats.

bman

BBR? what's that?

bman

Wayne Gretzky?

Michael Jordan?

Brett Favre?

Hank Aaron?

Am I close??

bman

I see several port-loving buds from the WS forums here, which is nice as I don't see them there so often. Perhaps that's because I'm not so ofter there any more. Life intrudes too often. I've been loving vintage port serviously for about 9 years now, which somehow has been long enough to amass a col...

bman

Couldn't pass through without saying hello....

bman

Me too. the stainless steel filter does leave some sediment in the decanter, but then I can filter that again by hand if I wish to.

bman

I do, only because it's so bloody expensive. But then again, I don't need a GOOD reason!

bman

I almost didn't post, rather than be called ruby port. Those of us who have lots of bottles, or have tasted 1945 Croft (you know who you are

), should be able to jump forward to at least a 75 vintage port!

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