Dow's Porto 1964 Reserve

[Glenn E.]

There has been some PM discussion about this Port, and so since I have 5 in my cellar I volunteered to post pictures. As you can see on the back label, mine were bottled in 1989.

[g-man]

and as discussed


a curious specimen of a port.

The notes given from the website states

This Reserve Port was bottled in '72 and has an intense nose of chocolate, berry fruit, and tar. On the palate it is concentrated, powerful, and full-bodied with layers of fruit. Drink now - 2012.

[DRT]

Dow and Warre have been producing these colheita ports for decades, primarily for their customers in Denmark. I suspect that the absence of the word "Colheita" from the front label is a typically British aversion to using strange foreign words to describe a product of the Empire

[g-man]

Dow and Warre have been producing these colheita ports for decades, primarily for their customers in Denmark. I suspect that the absence of the word "Colheita" from the front label is a typically British aversion to using strange foreign words to describe a product of the Empire

ah ha but look at the tasting descriptor i posted, that can't possibly sound like a colheita

[Glenn E.]

Dow and Warre have been producing these colheita ports for decades, primarily for their customers in Denmark. I suspect that the absence of the word "Colheita" from the front label is a typically British aversion to using strange foreign words to describe a product of the Empire

ah ha but look at the tasting descriptor i posted, that can't possibly sound like a colheita

I don't find chocolate on the nose of anything - I generally only find it on the palate - so I'm not sure that TN is all that accurate to start with. But yeah, aside from the chocolate an 8-yr old Colheita could have a nose like that. An 8-yr old Colheita is practically just an old LBV after all. That's why I usually don't like them, they taste like a ruby-tawny hybrid to me and not like a proper Colheita.

[DRT]

Dow and Warre have been producing these colheita ports for decades, primarily for their customers in Denmark. I suspect that the absence of the word "Colheita" from the front label is a typically British aversion to using strange foreign words to describe a product of the Empire

ah ha but look at the tasting descriptor i posted, that can't possibly sound like a colheita

I don't find chocolate on the nose of anything - I generally only find it on the palate - so I'm not sure that TN is all that accurate to start with. But yeah, aside from the chocolate an 8-yr old Colheita could have a nose like that. An 8-yr old Colheita is practically just an old LBV after all. That's why I usually don't like them, they taste like a ruby-tawny hybrid to me and not like a proper Colheita.

1964 vintage aged in oak casks for 8 years - it's a Coliheita. No doubt about it. None!

[JacobH]

The bottle Glen posted was bottled in 1989 so I would have thought that one would be fairly tawny (unless they are lying on the back of the bottle and it was matured in Tonels!) but I wouldn't be surprised if the other one had developed some weird flavours having been matured in the bottle for nearly 40 years...

Dow and Warre have been producing these colheita ports for decades, primarily for their customers in Denmark. I suspect that the absence of the word "Colheita" from the front label is a typically British aversion to using strange foreign words to describe a product of the Empire

Whilst I admire DRT's enthusiasm for this conspiracy theory, it is slightly undermined by the fact that the bottle has "Porto" and not "Port" stenciled on the front!

[marc j.]

it's a Coliheita. No doubt about it. None!

Absolutely correct! I just checked a bottle of the 1964 as well as a bottle of the 1972 and there isn't any doubt in my mind that these are simply Colheitas without the word "Colheita" on the bottle.

[mosesbotbol]

I had this same Colheita, but bottled in the 70's. It was awful. Not all Colheitas age well in the bottle.