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Christian

While I agree 100% with Andy that Porto is completely overrun with tourists, I don't feel this yet so much in the Douro Valley... I think the real tourism wave comes in a few years and the place will turn into something Tuscany-like. But JB Vintage, with regards to your question: If I would have to ...

Christian

Just got my bottle at QUINTA DO PORTAL. I will never open it but keep it as a memorabilia... What a great event that was!!! Can't believe it's nearly 3 years ago...

Christian

Hi Christopher, fantastic book!!!! I downloaded it last night and had the plan to drink a few glasses of Port while reading it. In the end I was so fascinated that I forgot to re-fill my glass... :D It's a great piece about the Douro Valley - and while I know many of the places that you have mention...

Christian

Hello Rob:
It's great to see that you have arrived - welcome to the sunshine!

It's yes - we need a real emergency offline... this afternoon...

Do you have any Happy Hour plans? Just send me a PM please...

Now that you are here, I have adjusted my signature from 5% to now 4%...

Christian

Hello Simon. Of course I'm absolutely biased - but I like my own blog on Facebook very much: https://www.facebook.com/Portwein-118856431560215 I try to show the beauty of everything Port Wine related - and you can find tons of photos that I took during my many trips to the Douro and Porto... This Sa...

Christian

My favorite Port place in Lisbon is "Grapes & Bites". It's in the heart of Bairro Alto - which is the perfect part of Lisbon for tourists, anyhow... The selection of wines and especially Port Wines is absolutely nice... When I saw that they have several wines from Andresen on their lis...

Christian

Hi Eus!
Thanks for sharing this very nice book - marvelous. Well done!!! I hope that you continue with your project to re-edit these great old books...

Christian

Hi Axel: I will be in June in Porto - is there any place where I can buy the wine directly while in Porto?

Christian

Fantastic, Axel! Well done. I still think this is one of the coolest things in the history of Port!

Christian

I may get shot, but I found alot of the food in oporto a bit lacking so i imbibed more than I ate :shock: Wow... The food is a bit lacking...???? I dream all year long about Portuguese food and I have to restrain myself from eating 24/7 when I'm once a year in Portugal... There are so many nice dis...

Christian

I may get shot, but I found alot of the food in oporto a bit lacking so i imbibed more than I ate :shock: Wow... The food is a bit lacking...???? I dream all year long about Portuguese food and I have to restrain myself from eating 24/7 when I'm once a year in Portugal... There are so many nice dis...

Christian

Thanks for sharing - that is really amazing... I wish I would have been on that trip... Can you imagine the list of wines that they will have tasted? Maybe Quinta do Noval 1931? Or Fonseca 1945? Niepoort 1927? It must have been a fantastic tour. I'm amused by the fact that the coach is driven by an ...

Christian

In case you guys make it to Porto, Quevedo has opened a very nice lodge in Gaia. It's well worth a visit. It's an old building, totally remodeled. It consists of two floors - whereby I have the feeling that nobody knows yet exactly what will be done with the ground floor, at least it didn't look fin...

Christian

As I just saw on http://www.ivdp.pt ("Comunicado de Vindima 2011"), the quota for the harvest 2011 has been announced: 85,000 pipas. That is very sad news... Obviously the established port wine drinking nations have reduced the consumption, and even if countries like Brazil (volume up 30%)...

Christian

The "Revista de Vinhos" wrote yesterday that the Quinta da Foz was sold to a group of investors from Angola. The Quinta is located in Pinhao and had belonged the last approx. 150 years to the CALEM family. The family had already sold a part of their assets to SOGEVINOS, 13 years ago (the b...

Christian

It's now 9:15.... in Cayman... and the fact that yesterday was Father's Day and that tomorrow will be my birthday inspired me to open the bottle of Noval's Colheita 1995 a few minutes ago... Happy Birthday, TPF! All the best to you all! This Forum has become really important to me, and everyday I st...

Christian

Hi Anders: Thanks for sharing...
However, the internet is pretty big... it helps to give us a little hint to find this page... like a link or so...

Or maybe my browser just doesn't show the link...? Hmmmm.....

Christian

Speaking about terrorist threats: Sometimes I think one of the better jobs on this planet would be to be working as airport security in Porto... Whenever I travel there, I see a few bottles of port in the "garbage bin for liquids"... In theory I believe that all of these bottles have to be...

Christian

Dear Nick, I'm glad you enjoyed Porto. Just reading the description of your days in Porto I got a very strong sensation of "saudade", this melancholic longing for something. I have travelled quite a lot - but no other town has fascinated me as much as Porto. There is something in me that f...

Christian

Hello Jacob: I have a facsimile of the original book "O Douro". It was printed in 1998 by Edicoes Livro Branco, Lta. The ISBN is 972-8317-21-2. I found it last year in an antiquarian bookstore in Porto and it's a fascinating book! It's in Portuguese, and even if I think that I speak Portug...

Christian

Hi Jacob - I must say I really like your idea! Port wine is so much about history - and if there is anything I can do, then I'm more than glad to help you. In the book "O Douro" by Manuel Monteiro I found some references for you. Quinta da Baleira - in 1911 it belonged to Julio Antonio Tei...

Christian

Hi Julian, have you seen that Symington's new web-page is online? http://www.symington.com On the first look, it looks like they did a really good job... Being in the office at the moment, I don't have much time.. but I'm sure that tonight I will spend some time on this page... I saw a few little gl...

Christian

Always interested in obscure port wine makers and shippers, I googled immediately "Shelby Port". I didn't find anything about the port wine shipper. However, I found a quite attractive lady with that name on Facebook. She seems to be a vintage 1985 or so. Unfortunately she lives far away f...

Christian

Hi Jacob: I looked through some of my books, and George Robertson lists in his book "Port" (3rd revised edition 1992) in the appendix "Vintage Ports and Their Shippers 1869-1987" the following vintages: "Stormont Tait 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1922, 1927". And...

Christian

Hello Julian - thanks for your interesting posts. Many web-pages have a lot of room for improvement. My dream would be that the big port wine shippers would scan all their archives and make them available to the public - I would for sure spend a lot of evenings going through the old documents (and I...

Christian

Yes, this is of Quinta da Eira Velha...! But really difficult to spot. And as I believe, there is a connection to Martinez. Cockburn managed the property since the 1970s and and made the single quinta vintage under the Martinez label. Here is the next Quinta... As far as I know, it still looks more ...

Christian

This Quinta seems to be very difficult to solve... I must confess that I don't even know how the Quinta looks today... When I was last year in Portugal, I saw the sign that showed the way to this Quinta - but I had no more time and couldn't stop... :( Here are two more photos... especially the last ...

Christian

Dear Friends, Thank you for all your nice words. It's good to see that these great photos are appreciated - and they are a very interesting example what love and hate can achieve. The photos were taken by Emilio Biel. Emilio Biel would have been one of the most famous Portuguese - if he would have b...

Christian

And here is the next Quinta... To make it a little bit easier, I will post two photos...

Christian

Wow, Andy - respect. You are right - I didn't expect anybody to figure this one out...
Tonight I will post the next photo - now I am in the office and don't have access to my photos.

Christian

Congratulations, Tom - that is a Hattrick... 3 right answers in a row... Yes, that is Quinta dos Carvalhos...

Now we have to make it even more difficult... This Quinta is very difficult to identify...

Christian

Tom,
You seem to have a good run...

Bingo.

Obviously this was too easy for you...

Here is the next Quinta:

Christian

Very good, Tom!

Here is the next one...
What is the name of this beautiful Quinta?

Christian

Dear AHB,
Thanks for your guess... and no, unfortunately it's not Noval.
A little hint: Sandeman might wish that this would be Noval - because this Quinta here belongs to Sandeman...

I don't know the exact date of the photo - but it should be somewhere between 1907 and 1910.

Christian

Hello everybody, We all know the names of so many Quintas... and when we use "Google", it's easy to find out how they look... nowadays. Some of us even had the pleasure to visit some Quintas in person. But how did they look back then...? I have some old pictures and would like to share the...

Christian

Dear Friends, for me, Port Wine is frozen history. It enables us to appreciate something from the past - a footstep in the sand of time, a greeting from previous generations. Imagine you find yourself an affordable Vintage 1908 and sit together with some friends and enjoy a great evening. Wouldn't i...

Christian

Stop 'dissing' 3 great songs! I'm not sure which Stranglers album that was off, but that counts as a guess in my mind. My next guess is Non Stop (Nun). Perhaps you should start to indicate whether I have at least got the right album. Nope. Not on that album. By the way somebody has been surprisingl...

Christian

http://www.revistadevinhos.iol.pt reports today that the Zeller Family has sold 100% of the shares of Quinta de Roriz Vinhos S.A. to the Symington Family. The Zellers owned the Quinta since 1815. There had already been a close partnership between the two families for several years about the grapes o...

Christian

Dear Friends, Over the last days I have spent a lot of time here, reading through the many posts and enjoyed this interesting forum. Since 1994 I spent every year some time in Oporto and I started to enjoy port wine tremendously. Last year I rented a car and drove several days through the Douro Vall...

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