Sadly in current days port is no longer present in movies etc.. Hence I set up this thread on the to collect the evidence when port was part of movies etc. We may be able to recycle this information if we have enough references e.g. do a tasting. To make a proper start here the first reference of port in a TV series in this thread:
TV series The Saint, S6 Ep5, Taylor 1912
I just loved when Simon Templar recogniced Taylor 12 as one of his favourites after having been poured a glass by Jonathan Roper probably from a Magnum decanter
Good old days or as Simon Templar put it "Uncommonly civilised......"
regards
WS1
"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough" Mark Twain
An excellent thread. I shall have a think about this. Coincidentally I watched 'Babette's Feast' last night which prompted me to buy some Clos de Vougeot when I first saw it years ago. As did Jeanette Winterson, I understand.
LGTrotter wrote: ↑22:51 Thu 23 Feb 2017
An excellent thread. I shall have a think about this. Coincidentally I watched 'Babette's Feast' last night which prompted me to buy some Clos de Vougeot when I first saw it years ago. As did Jeanette Winterson, I understand.
I actually thought there was some Port in babette's feast, no? Been so long since i've seen it.
JoshDrinksPort Port wine should perhaps be added -- A Trollope
PhilW wrote: ↑20:58 Wed 15 Feb 2017
Having just watched the film "Remains of the day", I noted the butler removed a bottle of Dow 1913 from the cellar. Fortunately I was able to check in "Port Vintages" to confirm that no such vintage appears to exist. Does anyone know whether the bottle is mentioned in the original book?
For those of you who have access to the BBC iplayer there is an adaptation of the Montague Egg story about the Dow '08. Read by Nigel Planar (Planer? Planar? Who knows, but Neil is who I mean). I would post a link but I am too frail. If you type 'Dorothy L Sayers' into it, you should find it.
I was thinking that the undergraduate in the first story complained of having his Cockburn 04 drunk by the rowing club. Published in 1933 that would make it just about thirty, an 85 in todays money.
LGTrotter wrote: ↑20:31 Fri 03 Mar 2017
For those of you who have access to the BBC iplayer there is an adaptation of the Montague Egg story about the Dow '08. Read by Nigel Planar (Planer? Planar? Who knows, but Neil is who I mean). I would post a link but I am too frail. If you type 'Dorothy L Sayers' into it, you should find it.
I spotted that in the paper this week. I think I'll download it tonight and listen to it either when drifting off to sleep or - more likely - listen to 95% of it during the day tomorrow when waxing our new bannister, handrail and finials.
Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
In the 1946 film, Send for Paul Temple, 1 hour and 10 minutes into the film the criminal gang about to be apprehended by Paul Temple and the police are meeting in an abandoned pub called the First Penguin. On the table is a bottle of Port. The quality of the film is too poor to be able to read the label, but it is a diamond shaped label which reminds me of the old Ferreira labels or perhaps it could be a bottle of Dixon’s Double Diamond.
Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
"The Abbey Grange". In the 1986 Granada television production, Sherlock Holmes notices that one of three glasses of port had much more sediment than the other two, leading him to believe that the story he had been told about the chain of events was untrue.
Watched over the weekend parts of the old TV series "All Creatures Great and Small". In S1 Ep3 sends Mrs Pumphrey a Fortnum&Masons hamper to James Herriot containing 3 bts of Grahams 1920 and 3bts of 80 year old brandy for improving her pudel Tricki Woo's health.
In Germany the series was called "Der Doktor und das liebe Vieh".
I wish I would get such a hamper!
regards
WS1
"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough" Mark Twain
WS1 wrote:Watched over the weekend parts of the old TV series "All Creatures Great and Small". In S1 Ep3 sends Mrs Pumphrey a Fortnum&Masons hamper to James Herriot containing 3 bts of Grahams 1920 and 3bts of 80 year old brandy for improving her pudel Tricki Woo's health.
In Germany the series was called "Der Doktor und das liebe Vieh".
I wish I would get such a hamper!
regards
WS1
Tricki woo! That takes me back a few years!
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Vintage 1970 and now proud owner of my first ever 'half-century'!
... but it also is true with all other wines. Good labels are not really visible in movies.
One of my favourites "a weekend at Bernie's" shows two: a 82 Mouton discretely on the table and a Belle Epoche (year unknown) which is occasionally drunk. Already some 30y old...
In 1943 the US Army released a film, “Welcome to Britain”, for US servicemen stationed in the UK, intended to give the viewer a small introduction to the differences between US life and UK life.
About 10 minutes into the film the narrator visits a Taylor Walker pub where one of the customers buys a Port for his wife. The brand of the Port isn’t discussed, but it was interesting to see the only two pub drinks mentioned in this American film were beer and Port.
Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
I had forgotten about it, but there's a great scene in 'Yes, Minister', where Hacker, Humphrey, and some people from Humphrey's university (Oxford) are sitting around a table drinking Port. The Port is really not mentioned, only passed around and drunk, but it's such a good scene that I couldn't not mention it. I'll leave a link to it (although most, if not all, of you already know what I'm talking about).
In The Killing - the Danish Scandi-Noir crime drama, Series 3 Episode 7, The Finance Minister is trying to make amends with The Prime Minister after trying to get them to step down, and does this by offering a Graham’s Vintage Port 1997. Maybe Gordon Brown gave Blair a similar offering!
In Ricky Gervais’s film, Cemetery Junction, about 15 minutes into it, Matthew Goode is sitting in a front room persuading a couple to buy a life assurance policy.
On the mantelpiece behind his head is an empty Sandeman bottle. The camera never got close enough to make out the specific wine.
Top Ports in 2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2025: Quevedo 1972 Colheita, b.2024. Just as good as Niepoort 1900!
Alex Bridgeman wrote:In Ricky Gervais’s film, Cemetery Junction, about 15 minutes into it, Matthew Goode is sitting in a front room persuading a couple to buy a life assurance policy.
On the mantelpiece behind his head is an empty Sandeman bottle. The camera never got close enough to make out the specific wine.
So Matthew Goode was upstaged by an empty out of focus Port bottle! Hahaha.
A couple of nights ago I caught the end of an episode of Heartbeat (Niamh Cusack!), didn't manage to grasp the storyline but someone seemed to be stealing Port and selling it on the cheap. The coppers caught them loading cases (Warres) on to a truck and in the execution of their duty they caused a wrong un to drop a case of Taylor's in surprise at being nabbed. My heart skipped a beat!
Wednesday night BBC 1 Celebrity Race Across the world they all had to get from Porto to Pinhao. The finishing point was the reception area at Quinta De La Rosa.
Justin K wrote: ↑19:54 Fri 22 Sep 2023
Wednesday night BBC 1 Celebrity Race Across the world they all had to get from Porto to Pinhao. The finishing point was the reception area at Quinta De La Rosa.
Very cool! I wonder if I can find that on streaming somewhere?
Justin K wrote: ↑19:54 Fri 22 Sep 2023
Wednesday night BBC 1 Celebrity Race Across the world they all had to get from Porto to Pinhao. The finishing point was the reception area at Quinta De La Rosa.
Very cool! I wonder if I can find that on streaming somewhere?
to collect the evidence when port was part of movies etc. We may be able to recycle this information if we have enough references e.g. do a tasting. To make a proper start here the first reference of port in a TV series in this thread:
