Port Wine

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TheRoadDog
TheRoadDog Posts: 11,786 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
I host a Cigar Night once a month in my home. For about the last 24 years. Mostly bikers. Bourbon is usually the drink of choice. One guy usually shows up with a different Bourbon each time just for him and I to taste. He also knows I enjoy a good Port once in a while. He keeps telling me about this box of 1994 Warre Port that he bought 20 years ago. Anyways, he emailed me yesterday and said he was heading out of town for a while and he wanted to drop a bottle of this port by my home. He's going to drop it off on my back porch at 7:30 this morning on his way to the airport. Can't wait to give it a try.

Went online and found this review:

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  • _pi3_
    _pi3_ Posts: 2,311 Member
    Is really old wine really good like they say? I haven't had a wine older than 3 years
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,786 Member
    forward0backward wrote: »
    Is really old wine really good like they say? I haven't had a wine older than 3 years

    I don't know. I'll be able to answer you tomorrow, though.
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  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,786 Member
    _har_T_Swallow wrote: »
    when i smoke i usually go with Bulleit.
    other times i'll just have a bit of coke mixed with fireball too if i haven't eaten much that day and need some sugar.

    i don't think i've ever actually had a glass of wine with one before. i def don't have any 20 year old wines sitting around. got a bottle of that Apothic Inferno at home though, the one they age in whiskey barrels. i might have to try that after reading this.

    I have a Bourbon collection at home. Down in my Man cave. But, also have a small bar on my back deck where we enjoy our cigars and I always keep a bottle of Basil Hayden and Bakers there for Cigar Night. By the way, there is a humidor on that bar on the back deck. If you don't know me well and I offer you a cigar, you can pull a cigar out of that Humidor. However, if you do know me well, you will likely ignore that Humidor and open the barely visible drawer on the side, where I keep the good cigars for my friends and myself.
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
    I love a good port but I've even gotten a cheap bottle at Publix of a tawny. I was not disappointed at all. Got pretty buzzed with only 2 glasses. Potent stuff.
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    I prefer tawny ports, but that sounds fabulous! Hope you enjoy it!
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,502 Member
    forward0backward wrote: »
    Is really old wine really good like they say? I haven't had a wine older than 3 years

    Some wines age well, especially fortified wines like port. Others don't.
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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,510 Member
    FTMFW


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  • DananaNanas
    DananaNanas Posts: 665 Member
    I bought a house in February with a built in wine rack above the fridge. I got up there to fill it up for the first time the other day and found a bottle of wine from the previous owner's wedding (1999? I can't remember...)

    We drank it that night. It was AWFUL!!!!!!! But it was some kind of rose (Pink Catawba? I think that might just be local to me but I'm not sure) and I don't like rose anyways :P lol
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,835 Member
    All port is barrel-aged, some ports are then bottle-aged. Ports are generally aged two to six years in the vat before bottling. Great vintage ports are bottle-aged for decades.

    Some wines are best drunk young, some best drunk well-aged. Beaujolais Nouveau may be drunk as young as two to three months old and needs to be consumed within six months of bottling. Other Beaujolais may be drunk up to three years old but not much beyond that. A Cabernet Sauvignon is not bottled before 4 years old and may be good as long as 20.

    Whether a bottle-aged wine is better or worse, exquisite or impotable depends on the initial qualities of the wine and its aging conditions.
  • _pi3_
    _pi3_ Posts: 2,311 Member
    DananaNanas wrote: »
    I bought a house in February with a built in wine rack above the fridge. I got up there to fill it up for the first time the other day and found a bottle of wine from the previous owner's wedding (1999? I can't remember...)

    We drank it that night. It was AWFUL!!!!!!! But it was some kind of rose (Pink Catawba? I think that might just be local to me but I'm not sure) and I don't like rose anyways :P lol

    I think only red is the type that ages well but I'm not at all an expert
  • Tweaking_Time
    Tweaking_Time Posts: 733 Member
    Port wine - correction - GOOD port wine is amazing. You have a good friend for sure!
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