g-man wrote:Quevedo is announcing, email from Oscar to me.
Please post the text of the announcement here, if Oscar is happy for you to do so.
sorry text of announcement came with a private transaction i can't post =(
Or you could ask Oscar permission?
Sorry, i need to clarify that it's my private transaction and due to certain alcohol laws, I have to keep it private, but I'll tell ask Oscar to post directly that he's declaring =)
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g-man wrote:Sorry, i need to clarify that it's my private transaction and due to certain alcohol laws, I have to keep it private, but I'll tell ask Oscar to post directly that he's declaring =)
There is no need to mention your private transaction. But now that you have done so it is difficult to keep it secret.
"The first duty of Port is to be red" Ernest H. Cockburn
g-man wrote:Sorry, i need to clarify that it's my private transaction and due to certain alcohol laws, I have to keep it private, but I'll tell ask Oscar to post directly that he's declaring =)
There is no need to mention your private transaction. But now that you have done so it is difficult to keep it secret.
or i can keep you guys in suspense!
Disclosure: Distributor of Quevedo wines and Quinta do Gomariz
I've tried uploading the Sogrape announcement. But I can't upload a PDF file, I've tried it as a TIFF (and compressed TIFF) and a PNG file but it's still too big. If someone can explain to me how to reduce post it I will (and instructions need to be for an iMac).
My guess: a new "super-cuvee" from the vines around the terraces referred to in this description of Quinta dos Malvedos on TheVintagePortSite?
[url=http://www.thevintageportsite.com/view.php?id=14450]here[/url], TheVintagePortsite wrote:The house at Malvedos has one of the finest locations of all Douro quintas, with a breath-taking view of the Douro from the tranquility of the veranda. Just to the east of the house are the famous Port Arthur stone walled terraces, so called as their shape was reminiscent of a heavily fortified city of that name which was in the news in the years just after the quinta was acquired. They are among the most striking and best preserved in the Douro, with beautiful integral stairways; superb examples of the stone mason's art.
Edit: also a reference here to the "Port Arthur" vineyard producing some of the best TN at the Quinta, although it seems like a single varietal block so not sure my guess is correct...BUT reference here to the separate vinification of 2010 "Port Arthur" grapes with "parcel 37", so perhaps 2011 was the next iteration of this experiment?
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RAYC wrote:
Edit: also a reference here to the "Port Arthur" vineyard producing some of the best TN at the Quinta, although it seems like a single varietal block so not sure my guess is correct...BUT reference here to the separate vinification of 2010 "Port Arthur" grapes with "parcel 37", so perhaps 2011 was the next iteration of this experiment?
A further tid-bit from the Fells site on the 2011 harvest...
Charles is particularly pleased with the quality and flavour of the Touriga Nacional from Port Arthur, and from the north facing parcel 37 just behind the house; it looks as if those will be vinified together again this year.
[url=http://www.thevintageportsite.com/view.php?id=14450]here[/url], TheVintagePortsite wrote:The house at Malvedos has one of the finest locations of all Douro quintas, with a breath-taking view of the Douro from the tranquility of the veranda. Just to the east of the house are the famous Port Arthur stone walled terraces, so called as their shape was reminiscent of a heavily fortified city of that name which was in the news in the years just after the quinta was acquired. They are among the most striking and best preserved in the Douro, with beautiful integral stairways; superb examples of the stone mason's art.
Churchill wrote:2011 has the makings of a phenomenal Port Vintage. In all my 39 vintages I have never encountered young Ports with such colour, structure and intensity. These Ports are head and shoulders above anything I have ever seen at this stage.
Fact or salesmanship?
The website’s list of Churchill vintages ends at 2007 (1991, ’94, ’97, 2000, ’03, ’07). Sigh. So many websites are done in a fit of high-budget enthusiasm, then allowed to go stale.
AHB wrote:The Big Fortified Tasting will be showing samples of the following:
Vesuvio Capella
I wondered whether this was a re-brand or a mistake in the BFT catalogue!
It is a mistake - That should read Capela da Quinta do Vesuvio 2011. You can also now satisfy a little of your curiousity about Graham's The Stone Terraces 2011 on line. More details in a feature article in a day or two.
No, nor Quarles Harris nor Martinez. These ports are typically made with the grapes bought in from Douro farmers, primarily in the Pinhão and Rio Torto valleys. For 2011 Symington was focussed on the opportunity to make creme de la creme ports from our own quintas - and when Charles reviewed the possible blends for these brands, the wines were simply not in the same league, so the decision was taken to let this year pass for those brands.
Cynthia J wrote:These ports are typically made with the grapes bought in from Douro farmers, primarily in the Pinhão and Rio Torto valleys. For 2011 Symington was focussed on the opportunity to make creme de la creme ports from our own quintas - and when Charles reviewed the possible blends for these brands, the wines were simply not in the same league, so the decision was taken to let this year pass for those brands.
Very fair. We traditionalists might slightly mourn the decline, over the last century or so, of Martinez, but that’s how it is.
Are the Symingtons willing to give estimated optimal drinking windows for their 2011 declarations? Which will be at peak first, and which will take longest?
Are the Symingtons willing to give estimated optimal drinking windows for their 2011 declarations? Which will be at peak first, and which will take longest?
No, they do not do this. I don't think I have ever heard or seen SFE put "drink by" dates on their wines! The only call we ever make in this regard is to say that the quinta vintage ports generally are not expected to be as long lived as their corresponding branded declarations, but what I have tasted of Malvedos in the 50s and early 60s makes that seem a modest statement. And as you know, storage conditions are everything.
You know that at the Vinum Restaurant every table has a little arrangement of schist as a centrepiece? I'm not sure how much more stone we can spare right now...
Cynthia J wrote:I don't think I have ever heard or seen SFE put "drink by" dates on their wines!
I’m asking about the opposite of a ‟drink by” date. Instead, what about a ‟wait until” date. E.g., ‟Will be at its best by about 2030, and will drink beautifully for a long time after.” That would have, midst the marketing gush, something useful.
Cynthia J wrote:You know that at the Vinum Restaurant every table has a little arrangement of schist as a centrepiece? I'm not sure how much more stone we can spare right now...
any word if the grahams' stones are going to see light of day state side?
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High budget Metzendorff catalogue arrived in the post this morning - thought it might contain a pre-declaration brief, but TFP products relegated to the rear, and not a mention of 2011...
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly - W.S. Churchill
nine days ago.
