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Port production statistics
Posted: 22:54 Tue 03 Feb 2015
by flash_uk
I have been trying to find some information on volumes of port produced by different houses by type of port. Does anyone know of a place this information can easily be found, other than trawling the (mostly very poor) port house websites?
Re: Port production statistics
Posted: 08:48 Wed 04 Feb 2015
by PhilW
I would have expected (but do not know) the IVDP to know and maintain such information; whether they publish it publically I have no idea, but might be worth a trawl through their website, or an enquiry.
Re: Port production statistics
Posted: 09:38 Wed 04 Feb 2015
by flash_uk
PhilW wrote:I would have expected (but do not know) the IVDP to know and maintain such information; whether they publish it publically I have no idea, but might be worth a trawl through their website, or an enquiry.
I did a quick trawl of their website. A very unrewarding experience. If I could read Portuguese I might stand a better chance - when you select English as the site language, a substantial number of the menu options which were in Portuguese then cease to appear, so I suspect I am unable to see some content.
Re: Port production statistics
Posted: 09:41 Wed 04 Feb 2015
by jdaw1
flash_uk wrote:If I could read Portuguese
Read it through
google translate.
Re: Port production statistics
Posted: 09:43 Wed 04 Feb 2015
by flash_uk
Aha! As if by magic, a "Statistics" section appears. Mr Benn would have been proud. Thank you Julian.
Re: Port production statistics
Posted: 13:33 Wed 04 Feb 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
Where I become aware of production statistics of vintage port, I try to build in a remark on the number of cases shipped when writing my tasting notes.
But there is much hidden or lost in the mists of time, or waiting to be found in old books about port.
Re: Port production statistics
Posted: 14:40 Wed 04 Feb 2015
by djewesbury
AHB wrote:
But there is much hidden or lost in the mists of time, or waiting to be found in old books about port.
And also in yet-to-be-published books about port. That pesky word 'publishing' again.
Re: Port production statistics
Posted: 18:22 Wed 04 Feb 2015
by flash_uk
Sadly the IVDP website was not much help after all.
Re: Port production statistics
Posted: 19:36 Wed 04 Feb 2015
by DRT
AHB wrote:waiting to be found in old books about port.
I have
one or two. What do you need?
Re: Port production statistics
Posted: 22:19 Wed 04 Feb 2015
by AW77
I think there are statistics in Richard Mayson's "Port and the Douro" (in the Appendix at the end). You might have a look if you can use these. (I don't have my copy at hand right now.)
Re: Port production statistics
Posted: 22:58 Wed 04 Feb 2015
by jdaw1
AW77 wrote:I think there are statistics in Richard Mayson's "Port and the Douro" (in the Appendix at the end). You might have a look if you can use these. (I don't have my copy at hand right now.)
Not by house — not that I can see, at least.