Why I Never Drank Port Before.

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Lifer
Nov 26, 2018
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When I think port, I always imagine an old lady, after a dinner, retiring to her room to have her nightly glass of port. Not sure why. Must be the bunch of cheap detective pulp fictions I read. Didn't want to feel like that old lady.

Now I realize, that old lady was a smart fox who has been savoring her stash of port without letting anyone know how good it was!
 

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Lifer
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When I think port, I always imagine an old lady, after a dinner, retiring to her room to have her nightly glass of port. Not sure why.
@bullet08

We will have to get you onto sherry !
Unfortunately what you wrote about port applies more so to sherry - "Aunt Mabel's tipple"

I had an old magazine (?1950's) with a wine list from the Queen Mary where the most expensive drops was sherry. Far more expensive than champagne, 1st growth Bordeaux or Burgundies.

The habit of drinking sherry waned post-WW ll. The sherry trade has been in the doldrums for decades.
The upside of this is the large stash of excellent sherry quietly ageing away in bodegas.
While the sherry prices been rising in the past few years, old mature sherry (while not necessarily cheap) is one of the bargains of the wine world.
 

anotherbob

Lifer
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When I think port, I always imagine an old lady, after a dinner, retiring to her room to have her nightly glass of port. Not sure why. Must be the bunch of cheap detective pulp fictions I read. Didn't want to feel like that old lady.

Now I realize, that old lady was a smart fox who has been savoring her stash of port without letting anyone know how good it was!
I always assumed most port was drunk in drawing rooms by men planning on evil ways to expand the empire mostly to the benefit of their bank account. Or in other words of course I've always loved the stuff.
 
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anotherbob

Lifer
Mar 30, 2019
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The last good bottle of port I tasted was from 1921. I had 2 glasses and corked the bottle with a view to decanting the bottle the next day. My house keeper came in the next morning, tipped the contents down the sink, washed out the bottle and tossed it in the recycling bin. I was not a happy camper! :poop:
My question is what did you do to the house keeper? To me that sounds like pay back.
 

jpberg

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I can see it now, just wondering who’s going to start the “Show us your Port tongs!” thread.
 
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I went to a workshop at Biltmore on fortifying wines. (This is how ports are made), and I've tried to fortify my peach wine we make with PGA, which was rather nasty, so I tried using a peach brandy, which was worse. Then I tried using a touch of Rye, and viola, it's amazing. It's funny how the sugars in wines will react with the spirits added. Sort of like tobacco blending. The most unexpected combinations can make some unique results.
 
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