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http://www.bn-image.com/images/bn/100/119885.jpg I normally prefer LBVs to be young and powerful, with a few exceptions - and this LBV is a good example of such an exception. Decanted and drunk right away. Colour faded to brownish red. Nose and taste full of raisins and plum. Alcohol well integrate...

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It lacks acid. It gets fat and sweet without the much needed acid to balance it. Compared to e.g. the Sandeman 20 year old tawny, this simply doesn't have the structure to be very intersting.

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Bottled 2006 First glass drunk directly after opening. No decanting. Nose Barely any fuit. Showing too much alcohol. Body Very little fruit. Thin. Not very pleasant. Finish It burns way too much. Short. Overall impression Thin and burning. Little fruit but lots of alcohol. One glass was more than en...

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Pleasing and smooth, showing few tannins. A bit of alcohol in the finish which actually wasn't too bad. It didn't seem to have closed down. It's priced in the LBV price range and fits nicely there. I think it has a good QPR and could be used for everyday drinking. Would I buy it again? Perhaps. Quaf...

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It's unfiltered by the way and already showing significant sediment. Pricing is in the upper segment.

I'm just finishing the bottle now and it's not too bad, although the alcohol is still burning tongue and throat a bit.

Would I buy it again? No. Would I drink it again? Yes.

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No decanting. It's subtle and smooth and doesn't really point in any particular direction with alcohol being the only thing standing out. I prefer LBVs to be powerful, an explosion in the mouth, full of fruits. This one isn't but it actually isn't too bad and not too good either. It's not overly swe...

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I'm planning to share this one with some friends in a week er two. Is decanting needed, and if so for how long? Thanks.

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Alright, haven't tried their VP's so I better give one a go.

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1990 Pocas Colheita [b. 2007] Bought about a year ago for €13 (down from €20) at a local supermarket. It's boring. Too sweet both in taste and mouth feel, lacking that fine touch, alcohol showing too much, too little taste and smell of anything and lacking some much needed acid. Even at this very l...

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This is indeed the real deal. Chancellor is produced by Pocas, which is carried by on of the large supermarkets (Irma) in Denmark, but not the same as the supermarket that sells Pocas (Super Brugsen). This must be a marketing trick of some sort as Coop Danmark owns both Irma and Super Brugsen. It's ...

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I second that. A great 20 year old tawny that's very fair in price. Great label design too.

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Okay, this one is too old for me, or even too young if you want a mature LBV. Most of the fruit has dissapeared and I like my red port young, strong and full of fruit! Even though the colour has fainted a bit it's still primarily red. The alcohol is showing too much, even after being open for some t...

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Unfurtunately, I don't keep drunk bottles. I'll have to look at a bottle the next time I see it in the supermarket. I can say that the label was very non-port like. Just a front label (IIRC) that was short and wide and with a "posh" font and design. If it has to look like that, I prefer th...

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My local supermarket had this one on sale in December (for what used to be £8, at that time probably £12). Anyhow, it's one of the cheapest 10 year old tawnies I've seen (Kopke being among them). Price is important here as it isn't that interesting. Some of my friends really enjoyed what was left of...

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I think this is the most boring LBV I've ever had. Too sweet, bland blend of fruit taste, too pleasing (but doesn't succeed), no structure etc. And it's not even among the cheaper ones. If I had more in my 'cellar' I would use it to make glÃ¶gg. I bet the 6 grapes, which I haven't tried yet, is bett...

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I really like this one. It's fairly similar to the Sandeman 20 year old tawny, which we all seem to like.

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Quinta do Portal: Black pepper (for ruby style)

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Schott Zwiesel square-stem IVdP Port tasting glass. A small glass also makes me drink less which isn't too bad as it's easy to drink too much port.

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Tasted on October 25, 2008. More details here . Having hear so many good things about this port I was a little biased before tasting it. It had to be very, very good. Unfortunately, it wasn't that good, although I much enjoyed it. I guess I missed the train and had it a couple of years too late. Dec...

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Follow up on the tasting This was an excellent tasting. People really enjoyed the young and fruity wines. People were allowed to rank their preferred three ports and the outcome was: 1. 2003 Romariz VP 2. 1978 Dalva VP 3. 2003 Portal VP As you can see, a strong preference for VP over LBV. QPR wise,...

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This reminds me of an old bottle of Tawny I found in my grandmother's cellar not too long ago. It was bottled in the 60'-70'ies or so. It was called Diamond. Unfortunately I don't remember the house. Anyhow, the funny part was that the back label had the word 'diamond' spelled using phonetics :D. (...

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I can second that, Michael: Last week I drank some Niepoort 2003 LBV, which I much enjoyed. Yesterday I attended the Port Wine Festival held at BÃ¸rsen in Denmark. There were about 25 houses present and one of them was Niepoort. I tried the 2004 LBV and it was just so very different from most other ...

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This reminds me of an old bottle of Tawny I found in my grandmother's cellar not too long ago. It was bottled in the 60'-70'ies or so. It was called Diamond. Unfortunately I don't remember the house. Anyhow, the funny part was that the back label had the word 'diamond' spelled using phonetics :D. (I...

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Decanting Portal and Romariz VP's now decanted. The Romariz showed no sediment, opposite to the Portal which had a thick mud-like sediment (this is only half of it) when decanted through an un-bleached coffee filter: http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6526/filtersmallil7.jpg +0 hours The Romariz is...

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It could be fun to taste them blind. But I'm the only person who actually know the different houses/producers by name, so it won't be that big a difference to people. And I would like to know more about the style of each house, so it would be a better education if they weren't served blind. I agree ...

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Tomorrow I'm hosting a port tasting for six of my friends. The last time I hosted a tasting, it went like this . This time I'm focussing on the ruby style and I've decided to do a "semi" 2003 horizontal with an odd last bottle. The line-up http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/4899/lineupsmal...

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I don't believe in one size fits all. Forget about me! Cheers.

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I think this is a matter of taste and as long as we have different layouts to select, then I'm not objecting to anything. I prefer that you have the layout you like and have worked hard for and that I've got this default layout which I like.

Hi ho Silver!

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Interesting. I've got their LBV from 2000 (bought it for 85DKK/Ã¢”šÂ¬12/$17, which is a very fine price for an LBV and cheaper than the VP) and I will thus look forward to drinking that. So prices may be reversed in different countries or for different vintages ...

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Actually, I think you're right about the colours for read and unread threads. They don't cause trouble. I stand corrected. It's not so much the overview itself that I'm against, only slightly, no it's the thread layout. Centered quotes, colours too much alike, too little space between posts, the col...

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I've only had creme brulee with Port once, and the combo wasn't that good, although it wasn't bad either. I think it was caused by the choice of Port - a Portal 20 year old tawny. But I'm willing to try other combinations to see if this combo is indeed as good as it sound to me on paper

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I think the most important issue for me is that it's almost impossible to differentiate between read and unread threads as the colour scheme used is the same. To me the new layout is just a bunch of words with no real structure to it. If you try the silver layout for a day and then switch back you s...

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uncle tom wrote:Chocolate (preferably dark) has some sympathy with ports at the younger end of the spectrum

I second that.

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I'm sorry if this has already been mentioned or you are only testing, but I must say that the current color scheme, icons and what have you creates the most frustrating layout I've ever seen on a forum. It must be coded in some way so that you're only able to really understand it after a few glasses...

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Indeed. Indeed.

Compared to an unfiltered LBV I would say that the Rozes had less tannins, less alcohol, less structure, more sweetness.

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Do you ever drink alcohol to ease the pain when you're hung over? I know from myself that alchol greatly helps to remove some of the uncomfortness. A couple of beers is usually does the trick, but a drink might be even better if the pain is caused by beer. I've also had some Port the day after and a...

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Yesterday I had this "VP". I took it with me to a friends place, opened the bottle and (we) drank it within 30 minutes after arriving. Haste! Anyway, this is a (light?) LBV in disguise. Soft, sweet and pleasant, as I recall. I liked it, though, but I would not classify this as VP! It was f...

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There's a brewpub in Michigan making crazy beer. I attended a beer tasting recently where 13 bottles from their imperial series were served. Some of them were normal, some quite weird: The ones I liked the best was the ginger flavoured and the peach flavoured beers. They were balanced and yummy! :D ...

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There are programs that can download entire websites (e.g. webzip) but these might give you some problems regarding how to mark and find new posts since your last login/offline-download.

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A great example is Bronco Winery here in the states. They sell a line of dry wines call Charles Shaw (also known as "Two Buck Chuck") as it sells for only $2 a bottle :shock: This reminds me of the episode of Oz Clarke and James May's "Big Wine Adventure" (season 2) where they h...

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Am I the only one experiencing that if I check the "keep me logged in" checkbox on the login page, I don't get logged on when entering my username and password? If I try and login (without checking that box) just afterwards, then all topics are marked as read. A bit frustrating. This effec...

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Bland, I agree. I had it a few weeks ago and had I not seen the label, I might have guessed it was a ruby :roll:. As Derek suggests, it does get better when chilled a bit. I don't think it would by an LBV from Taylor again. I rather buy a good ruby at a price less tha this LBV or e.g. an unfiltered ...

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I had that problem recently at a white wine blind tasting. It was pretty obvious that there we no wines from Alsace. I guess an Otima would create the same problem. We need a black decanter

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Google.

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79 was crap. What if we focus on colheitas instead? I'm thinking of buying my twin brother a colheita from 1979 for his birthday. Of course I would have to buy two so that I can make sure that he'll like it :wink: If I remember correctly, I've heard that Niepoort's should be very good. Any other su...

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Port - Henrik Oldenburg Lots and lots of information on the different port houses and on the history of port, which makes it a very useful book. Given that it's from the late '90's, a good deal of the information is already outdated. Advice please: Portvin (Used) = £25 These should be the same, alt...

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