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Tom has kindly offered to host us at The White Horse in Newport (Essex) on Thursday 12th December. This post is a placeholder to save the date. The usual theme of The Unknown Shipper and His Peculiar Friends will be adopted. The usual procedure of the prior year attendees having first refusal will a...

Tony reported no bottler could be identified

Christopher reported that no bottler could be identified.

We had a family lunch at the Rose & Crown on the Polygon next to Clapham Common. I was pleased and delighted to spot a bottle of Sandeman Fine White Port in the fridge behind the bar - so taught the barman how to make a Porttonic and ordered five of them. I was also quite impressed by the desser...

This bottle is currently the record holder in my cellar for the longest owned unopened bottle. It was purchased from Berry Brothers on 10th April 1996 for the sum of £46.00

Justin K wrote: ↑20:52 Fri 19 Jul 2024 Three new Ports to me. All bought at auction.
SW77 x 6
GC 10YO x 1
Burmester (don’t know the abbreviation) 85 x3

That should be some very nice drinking!

I have just joined the dots and realised that the owners of Quinta de Brunheda are also the owners of the Blackett shipper brand and of Alchemy Wines.

Any chance of pictures of the Ports I’ve not heard of before, especially of any tiny print on front or back labels saying “bottled by…”? They would be Gueda Wines and the Ramos Pinto Lagrima RP Lagrima Das Damas: https://imgur.com/a/rSKc2vz Gueda White: https://imgur.com/a/MkB9omX Thank you. I need...

From California. Gavin Chanin joined the Port Forum at a recent tasting and brought a blinded 50cl bottle with him. To date, this is the only fortified wine made at Chanin Wines. Local spirit is used to fortify the partially fermented wine to 19%. The cap is punched down during fermentation but the ...

Any chance of pictures of the Ports I’ve not heard of before, especially of any tiny print on front or back labels saying “bottled by…”?

They would be Gueda Wines and the Ramos Pinto Lagrima

Glenn E. wrote: ↑17:31 Wed 10 Jul 2024 Did anyone keep a record of the votes? Who was the most successful? Which Port was the favorite?

Just posted for you the Wine of the Night score. I don’t have a copy of the individual scoring, but I can admit I was worse than useless.

Port.Forum.Members can be found near Lebanon, Missouri.

That really is a good price for a rather tasty Port that’s drinking very nicely at the moment.

As Phil says, the bottle looks to be genuine to me from the pictures you’ve posted. I’d follow his guidance to see if you can get a feel for the state of health of the contents and be and give thanks for your lucky find!

Perhaps Glenn would be interested to know that perfect.tawny.port can be found in the Atlantic Ocean about 500 miles south-west of Ilhas Cabo Verde. Or maybe Andy should know that the only place in the world where you can find massive Port stocks is not far from his house in LA — could this be his o...

Despite the obvious attractions of abundant.Port.everywhere, I am reluctant to move to the Polish / Belarus border just to the south of the Kaliningrad exclave.

That could be the find of a lifetime. You might have come across a bottle which was purchased for the hotel shop 20 years ago and which has not been repriced since then.

Any chance of some pictures?

PORT.DECANTER.FOUND near Barrow, Alaska

Default food order works for me. Thanks - I’m really looking forward to this!

IMG_8632.jpeg IMG_8633.jpeg IMG_8634.jpeg I’ve converted a couple of empty wooden cases into ice buckets using 2mm thickness polycarbonate sheet to make a waterproof liner. I’m going to try again with 4-5mm sheet so that I can make liners which slide in and out of the wooden case. The first effort ...

IMG_8632.jpeg IMG_8633.jpeg IMG_8634.jpeg I’ve converted a couple of empty wooden cases into ice buckets using 2mm thickness polycarbonate sheet to make a waterproof liner. I’m going to try again with 4-5mm sheet so that I can make liners which slide in and out of the wooden case. The first effort ...

Earlier today I stumbled across cheers.port.people just off I96 in Kansas. There is also a fine.port.magnum to be found just off the coast of Kagawa, Japan or an ancient.port.magnum in Kentucky but the only mature.port.magnum is in Arctic Russia.

I have very carefully kept out of this discussion, but am now forced to join in by Rich’s last post.

My Taylor 2015 LBV (Tower of London Edition) is better tonight than it was last night. I will keep an eye out for both this and the 2005 Terra Feita.