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I drink Port; from Trader Joe's, Warre's Cockburn's whatever. I've bought a couple of vintage. One for $60 about 20yrs ago for my friends who owned the Ventura Book Store, I bought it at the Santa Barbara "Wine Cask". The other one I bought at an Encino or Sherman Oaks Liquor store on Sepulveda Blvd just south of Ventura Blvd. Cost $60, I bought it for my friend who was getting tokudo at Zen Mountain Center, up on Mt. San Jacinto. We drank the whole thing in one night. I didn't get sick! I can't remember what they were. Other than that I've had Warre's "Nimrod"(great name),supposed to be 15yr and the 20yr Warre's. Every once in a while I'll smoke a cigar. I don't usally drink Port with it. Has anyone had a good Port or Sherry lately? Recomendations?
Ron
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I like both Port and Sherry, but I am really starting to develop a love affair with Madeira. Try the Blandy's 5 year old Malmsey Madeira - it is really quite good as a dessert wine. I don't even mind a cigar with my Madeira. You can also get 10 or 15 year old Malmsey's, but they'll cost a bit more.
The Sherrys and Marsalas along with Madeiras will be closer in taste than the ports. Maderias are very good and interesting wines in that they come in different styles and ages like a good sherry. For the most part Marsalas that are easily found in the US tend to be used for cooking more than drinking.
I personally like ports the best and of course old vintage ones are really a treat. They are a very long lived wine and I have tasted ones back into the 20s and they were very sound.
For everyday the Aussies are good buys or the Rubies from Portugal. I like the fresh fruit of the rubies and think for the $$ the tawny ports of Australia are very attractive.
While I am not going to say not to smoke a good cigar with your port I really do suggest that you do the English style dessert of blued cheese and walnuts with the port. It is really quite the flavour combination and the better the port the better they work. I think it is one of the better taste combos in the world of food and wine.
David Thatcher
Thanks for the tip, I love blue cheese and walnuts. There was a walnut orchard behind the house I grew up in. My Dad turned me on to the blue cheeses. Nice Christmas idea! Thanks for the education.
Ron
Taylor Fladgate 20 or 30 is a nice tawny. Both are less than $50 usually. I like The Galway Pipe form Australia's Yalumba winery. It stands next to aged Portuguese tawnys with no apologies. Truth is tho, my interest in port has waned in favor of Brandy or Madiera.
Thanks for the tip and link, I like the idea of buying some local yokel's stuff. I'll have to check it out.
I also have the anglophile's fantasy of the cabin of a frigate during the napoleonic wars or oak woodlands in Portugal. I bought a bottle of Hooper's 84' for $12 at Trader Joe's yesterday.
Last time I had a bottle of Martel's it mostly evaporated. I have a bottle of Jack that I bought 12yrs ago.
Cheers, Ron
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