20 year old port.
YAY
DO WANT.
This is a fine, fine tasting glass of what is essentially poison.
Wow.
have you toasted to anything cool?
The fine things in life. It was appropriate at the time.
God bless port.
God bless my precious opium.
Why is it that what is bad for the body is good for the soul?
Why is it that what is good for the body is bad for the soul?
Another reason to live?
Heroin.
Heroin, brings out the HERO in you.
Another reason to live?
So you can be there at the confluence of worlds, it is coming. Their world. Our world.
They are here.
Are you high?
port..never had...someone once told me it's like B&B is that true?
No.
It's like wine, right? But take everything REALLY delicious of a glass of wine, magnify it. It is stronger than wine, of course, but the flavours are unbelievable. The spiciness, woodiness, the fruit notes, tannins...
A good, old port is really something to savor and never forget. Which is why you never get drunk on it, for very fear of forgetting.
Por moi.
hmmm. sounds like i have a new entry on my to-do list.
Like the thread title says.
Oh, and try not to buy cheap stuff. If it's too expensive or too cheap, wait until a better opportunity.
When I was born,my father bought a bottle of port,in order to celebrate my 18th birthday with 18 y.o. port...Needless to say,it was even better than the cake...
I've had the cheapo stuff and a few passable bottles.
I will ehatily accept recomendations for brands to look for.
Not bad for a drink that started out as a "Let's see if we can make this drinkable" experiment.
Yeah, it started out as shitty wine full of brandy, right?
Yeah, British importers jokingly dumped a bucket of brandy into strong Portugese wine trying to make it better. It started when they were at war with France, and couldn't get the French wine they were used to.
On my shelf I have a 1963 Niepoort my dad bought when he was a young sailor and never got around to open. After he found out he didn't like port I got it 20 odd years later.
I had a graham from 1979 once which had been stored in casket for six years, the rest in the bottle and it tasted like heaven.
Also, planning my vacation to porto in the beginning of August. Three weeks of drinking ports of different sorts.
To keep it rollin', I'm interested in what ports you people usually buy, whether it's the highend expensive shit or the midsection for when to get drunk. Getting drunk on a half bottle of niepoort lbv and a bottle of ok cava is fucking excellent.
Brands to steer clear from:
Sandeman (the ordinary, the lbv and the invalid works)
Kopke (even their "high end" tastes like shit, don't go there)
Also don't drink ports that are young unless it was an exceptional year. Ports that are aged less than 18 months taste like cheap portugese wine mixed with cheap brandy. 3 years is a minimum if you're low on cash, otherwise go for 6+.