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Christmas Day port...
Posted: 19:05 Tue 23 Dec 2008
by benread
What are you opening for Christmas Day festivities?
I have a bottle of Warre 1985 in mind and expect to open it sometime on Christmas Day morning based on this
tasting note. I will try and link my own TN sometime late on 26th December.
Happy Christmas to all fellow TPFers and general 'lurkers' on the site.
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 20:08 Tue 23 Dec 2008
by Glenn E.
We will be spending Christmas Eve with my wife's immediate family, and I plan to take a nice Bertani Reccioto to drink along with the dark chocolate dessert that my sister-in-law is making.
Then on Christmas Day, my wife's entire family (17!) will be coming to our house for Christmas dinner. I plan to open a pair of 1980s for that - one Graham's and one Warre's. I doubt that we would even go through a single bottle - not many people in my wife's family drink anything - but I figure that if there are leftovers I can probably deal with them myself over the next couple of days.
I haven't figured out what I'm going to open on New Year's Eve yet, but it will probably be a Colheita. I have a half bottle of 1957 Kopke...

that might do the trick.
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 21:03 Tue 23 Dec 2008
by Alex Bridgeman
I've got a Vesuvio 2006 lined up for Christmas Day. After that, it will probably be a Cockburn Quinta da Tua 1987 - the port that used to be my house port about 5 years ago. Not sure what it will be on New Year's Eve. I'm sure we'll come up with something appropriate.
Alex
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 21:15 Tue 23 Dec 2008
by benread
I shall need to go shopping for New Years Eve. I have in mind a trip to
this Houston off licence. They seem to have a good selection - particularly of colheitas. It may be a new year "colheita - thon" in Texas for me!
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 00:09 Wed 24 Dec 2008
by JacobH
Not quite sure what I will have on Christmas day, yet. I’ll see what I decide on the spur-of-the-moment! New Year’s Eve is likely to be a Neipoort 1994 Colheita as I think I might be going to a party where the host is particularly fond of the tawny stuff.
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 11:35 Wed 24 Dec 2008
by uncle tom
I popped a Sandeman '63 yesterday, but it was looking a bit of a faded relic last night, so may quaff it down this evening and open something else.
I recently got hold of a pair of Dalva '44 colheitas...
- why not..
Tom
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 13:46 Wed 24 Dec 2008
by ajfeather
Having enjoyed a Vesuvio 1995 so much the other day I am tempted to try a Vesuvio 1994 but it will probably end up being a taylor from 77...
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 17:54 Wed 24 Dec 2008
by Glenn E.
benread wrote:I shall need to go shopping for New Years Eve. I have in mind a trip to
this Houston off licence. They seem to have a good selection - particularly of colheitas. It may be a new year "colheita - thon" in Texas for me!
Wow that's a good price for the 1937 Kopke... I might have to get some of that!
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 16:03 Thu 25 Dec 2008
by Andy Velebil
Not today, but tommorow will be a 1980 Taylor's VP. Saturday will be a whole lot of ports from my cellar as I'll have friends over and I have deceided it's time to make room for incoming purchased made over the summer.
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 19:06 Thu 25 Dec 2008
by g-man
Fellow NY tasters shall partake in a mini Fonseca tasting =)
Merry Xmas you guys!
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 20:12 Thu 25 Dec 2008
by Michael M.
Yesterday and before yesterday: 1989 Porto Pocas Colheita. Today+ yesterday: 1995 Warre's Quinta da Cavadinha Vintage Port. Today Ferreira Duque de Braganca 20 year old Tawny.
g-man wrote:
Merry Xmas you guys!
dito
Michael
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 22:10 Thu 25 Dec 2008
by Alex Bridgeman
Michael - how was the Cavadinha 1995?
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 16:21 Fri 26 Dec 2008
by Michael M.
Alex,
I find this example to be a very good (SQ)VP, but far from being mature. I would guess that this one is at least 10 years from being fully mature. If served to me blind, I never would have guessed it as a 13 years old Vintage Port. I would have said 2001 or 2004.
+ 5 hours: violet at the edge, opaque, nearly black in the middle. Nose of red fruits, dominating raspberries, lot of alcohol. On the palate full bodied, not too sweet, masses of tannins, aggressive.
+ 24 hours: Always a lot of alcohol in the nose, more raspberries and dark cherries. In the mouth lots of tannins. Long aftertaste.
+30 hours: On the nose raspberries and dominating dark cherries, reduced alcohol. Because of the tannins always very youthfull mouth feeling. Long lasting aftertaste.
+ 51 hours, now: Even after more than two days in the decanter it did not fade away. Reduced alcohol on the nose, red to dark fruits, very powerful on the palate with a long lasting aftertaste. Impressive and better than before. Love it.
Michael
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 20:25 Fri 26 Dec 2008
by DRT
Yesterday I opened a Dow 1983. Very yummy and, best of all, hardly anyone wanted any of it
...the remainder will not see tomorrow
Merry Christmas everyone.
Derek
Re: Christmas Day port...
Posted: 06:57 Sat 27 Dec 2008
by RonnieRoots
We thoroughly enjoyed a Niepoort Garrafeira 1952 after Christmas dinner. A TN will follow in the appropriate section.
That was the only port, but we also had some nice wines:
- Simonsig Kaapse Vonkel 2006
- Le Serre Nuove dell' Ornellaia 2005
- Niepoort Charme 2005
The Serre Nuove was a very nice match with mushroom risotto and the Charme worked well with tenderloin steak, poached in a red wine stock.