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I've got a magnum sized 25 yo with sediment.
Do I decant it now and let it breathe for a couple of weeks*, or wait until Christmas Eve?
* I can't promise I won't sample it.
Day before. Use a candle to see when the sediment is coming out..
I was going to pour it through a pair of tights tbh
😀
<awaits "what denier for vintage port" follow-up>
Do not pour through any cloth!!!!!!! At all pour gently and slowly leaving the sediment in the bottle do this 48hrs before drinking no earlier no later! Sit back and enjoy
Assuming it's vintage Port then no more than 24 hours before in my experience, less is better. An hour or 3 to breathe is fine but too long and it starts to oxidise and this will spoil the taste.
If it's a Tawny Port ignore the above, it's already oxidised so just go straight from the bottle.
what if, hypothetically speaking there is some left over do you pour it back into bottle or just keep drinking?
dad has an old bottle that needs opening at some point
No cloth. Candle. Decent decanter. Steady hand. Stop seeker rather than later. . 25 yrs ain't that old. Don't waste it by drinking it when you're smashed.
Bruneep. No. Leave it in the decanter.
Only after she's come.
I agree with lunge, an hour or two is all you need, it's not the same the next day.
Bruneep - once you crack the seal and pour then the oxidisation starts, so you could decant half but the rest in the bottle will be going off so you have 48hrs really...
Couple of hours before drinking, pour carefully with light behind to see the sediment in the neck, filter the remainder with proper wine filters
Christ. How complicated could this be?
Get your butler to do it ffs!
Decant... ?
What happened to shaking the bottle then hosing it all over the cheeseboard ?
This'll annoy many a wine snob but you can just pour it through unbleached coffee filters and avoid the candle and long pour shenanigans. 25 years is not tools in Port terms so I'm revising my comment, 2 hours max before opening, no more.
What supermarket bought port for the port curious novice as a festive tipple? My only experience of port is drinking too much whilst very drunk at the end of mess dinners in the Navy with consequential crashing hangovers.
Is there a difference between port, sherry and sloe gin?
is this related to mattyfez' point, above ?What happened to shaking the bottle then hosing it all over the cheeseboard ?
Convert, Aldi/Maynards 10 year Tawny, £10 a bottle, no too heavy and very nice indeed. If you want a heavier, darker drink their LBV is a similar price and very drinkable too.
Rubber, yes, lots.
Lunge - ta very much.
Rubber_B.
Port and sherry are both fortified wines, with port being a good thing to have with cheese and sherry being a grandparent staple drink.
Sloe gin is a liquer and is awesome. Try it with tonic for a refreshing twist on a G&T, or just in small glasses for a winter warming drink.
Is there a difference between port, sherry and sloe gin?
What do you think?
I just had a look at mine Its Taylors 1984 LBV. So actually 31 yo. Im not sure its good or not as I know nothing about port but given the advice above i shall leavbe the decanting ceromony until christmass eve and enjoy a glass then.
Willard - I used to think that sherry was just for grandparents - then I discovered the joys of really really rich sweet sherries
e.g. El Candado Pedro Ximinez stuff.
Like drinking liquid christmas pudding.
vvvv nice.
I will be getting a bottle of half price (£8) Cockburn's Port Special Reserve from Tesco later on today. The bottle is packed into a bottle shape tin can which is rather nice but weird.
Cockburn's Port Special Reserve - £8 @ Tesco
Taylor Port Special Reserve - £7 @ Co-op.
I can get some half price port at the moment so which is better out of the two above?
And what temperature should I chill the blue wkd to?
K57 - LBV is NOT the same as Vintage, is usually sold for relatively early drinking, and might actually be filtered. Not sure that will have necessarily improved.
I had am embarrassingly over mature bottle of wine a few weeks ago. If your port is meant to be a special part of a meal, I'd open it and try it while the offie is still open...
It wouldn't surprise me if your LBV is well past its best, especially if kept in the cupboard under the stairs or subject to wide temp variations.
Just go and buy yourself a nice bottle of colheita and drink that instead, all the aging has been done for you and it will last a bit longer once opened too.
Different class to the cheap supermarket stuff that gets opened and then brought out again the following Christmas 😯
Ah, LBV. If it's been stored OK you might get away with it but that is not vintage. You won't need to decant it though so that'll save something there.
don't forget, passing the port from left to right is a social faux pas in polite circles
48hrs before drinking no earlier no later!
So precise? Is that 48 hours from starting to decant or after finishing decanting? I assume you then have to down it in one.
don't forget, passing the port from left to right is a social faux pas in polite circles
But which leg of the tights should it strained through?
lunge - Member
Ah, LBV. If it's been stored OK you might get away with it but that is not vintage. You won't need to decant it though so that'll save something there.
I didn't state it was vintage 🙂
But it does have sediment in the bottom of the bottle...
that was my first thought 🙂What happened to shaking the bottle then hosing it all over the cheeseboard ?is this related to mattyfez' point, above ?
Beware !
25 years old may have enough "strength" left to decant it. Older Ports can be destroyed by decanting, I've ruined a 40yr old bottle by decanting a few hours before drinking 🙁 I have 52yr and 48yr old bottles which we will open amd drink in one session as yhe advice is they won't stand decanting
What straw for drinking Vintage Port?
What straw for drinking Vintage Port?
Cheese ones, obviously!
I've found this very good for very little cash http://www.aitkenwines.com/item/Brand_Red_2009-LBV-Late-Bottled-Vintage-Port-Wiese-and-Krohn-Douro-Portugal_0_0_219_0.html
I need to get my Port from Sainsburys (becuase I can get it free) and based on the fact I know nothing else about port, would this, the most expensive be any good?
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/grahams-malvedos-port-75cl
Theres a Tailors 10yo Tawny as well.
The Malvedos is a non-vintage year, vintage Port. Simplistically, it's made to the same style and process as a real vintage Port but it's not from what has been declared as a vintage year. This means it'll likely be a nice drop, quite dark and heavy and will need decanting. It'll also need to be all drunk with 3 days of opening.
The 10 year Tawny will be lighter, more like a dessert wine almost and will also last a little longer in an open bottle. I would choose this but it's not what the British think of as a "traditional" Port.
They're both perfectly good Port's, albeit in different styles.
Tanks Lunge, I'm not a "sweet" person and like a heavy red wine, so the former calls to me.
3 days eh, Christmas Eve through to Boxing day I could manage that.
Send him back where he came from.....
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