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The latest newsletter includes an article on http://www.agoodnose.com

It is a site dedicated to fine wine and good food as has a fairly large amount of content focused on port, including a micro site with articles on each of The Douro Boys, their wines and Quintas. More is to be added later and they have an e-newsletter that is easy to sign up for.

Interesting reading and some wonderful pictures of our favourite place on the planet

Derek

Dear Derek,

This is my first foray onto The Port Forum and it will be disgracefully brief, though I promise to return very soon. My working day has been squandered trying to resolve technical issues with France Telecom and Google Analytics and my eyes are now completely square!

I want to thank you most sincerely for your kind interest in A Good Nose.Com during this very first month online and hope that you and many of your distinguished members will help us raise awareness of the exciting new wines appearing all across the Douro valley. I have much to share with you and hope I will be permitted to return - in the meantime, I will be thinking of you tomorrow evening as you and your friends share some fine Port wine in London.

Port is such civilised pleasure, thus, I feel safe in the company of so many like-minded individuals whose passion centres on this worthwhile and convivial pursuit. I send you all my best wishes and look forward to welcoming you at agoodnose.com very soon. David Eley

David,

Welcome to

Please do come back and browse here and feel free to join us any time.

Best Regards
Derek

Welcome!

I have to ask, do they really sell port in a jug like that?

g-man wrote:Welcome!

I have to ask, do they really sell port in a jug like that?

I've seen lots of those lying around the Quinta's. I think they use them for the juice they keep for private consumption. I have also seen them filled with some sort of mind-blowing hooch that they feed to the workers during treading.

Yes they're used for the workers, but also for locals who come to the quinta and buy the cheapest table wine. We tasted a sample of this once at Quinta de Baldias. It was horrible!

RonnieRoots wrote:Yes they're used for the workers, but also for locals who come to the quinta and buy the cheapest table wine. We tasted a sample of this once at Quinta de Baldias. It was horrible!

At the vale de mendiz facilities of Niepoort, some left overs of Charme are bottled into this and it is served to workers during the harvest. It was not too bad

Moreso than the bottle, I approve of the use of a mug, which I think should be noted when we’re next discussing £30 hand-blown Riedel Sommelier glasses!

Frederick Blais wrote:[. It was not too bad

Hmm, can you define this I've not had any, but all I have ever heard was "you don't want to!" Maybe this year I'll be brave enough to give it a go...again, only in the name of science

DRT wrote:I have also seen them filled with some sort of mind-blowing hooch that they feed to the workers during treading.

Aguardente is what that's called, I believe.

And yes, it's fairly mind-blowing!

I bet Derek wasn't using a tin mug last night

David,

welcome!

Good to have you on board.

Axel

A Good Nose wrote:I bet Derek wasn't using a tin mug last night

By the end of the evening I'm not sure I would have known the difference

Port is such civilised pleasure

Absolutely agreed - welcome on board!

Tom