Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Walking around Lisbon on my last visit, I happened on a port shop which had bottles of vintage port as old as 1900. The prices were comparable to new Leica glass, so I abstained. Nathan Nick Roberts wrote: > My parents moved out of the house they had been in for over 30 years about > 3 years ago. They had two bottles of 1947 vintage port in the wine cellar > (yes, it had a genuine one!), and so we drank them. They needed > considerable filtering, but the port was sublime - a real intensity of > flavours coupled with an incredible smoothness - better than single malt, > I swear. The best alcoholic drink I have ever tasted. > > With single malt, once it's bottled, it starts to deteriorate (however > slowly!) - it might improve in the cask for many years, but after bottling > it's decaying. Port, however, improves after bottling, as with most fine > wines; so I reckon you did yourselves a favour, Ted! > > Must say that port never lasts long enough to improve in my house - I > adore the stuff, so don't buy it often! > > Nick > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jgovindaraj@eth.net> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 2:26:48 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] WAS: Party pics and such... NOW: PORT! ;-) > > > Ted, > I believe that some Vintage Ports are aged for 30 years or more before > drinking, so it is extremely long lasting stuff. > Cheers > Jayanand > > Walt Johnson wrote: > > >> Absinthe.......Rimbaud.....................very cool and >> destructive......where can I get some? >> >> Ted Grant wrote: >> >> >>>>> absinthe << >>>>> >>>> >>> Cool stuff.... big headache! ;-) Very wild in between!;-) >>> >>> However, my dear wife this evening opened a bottle of Port after >>> dinner that she was presented with by the Secretary to the Ambassador >>> of Portugal ..... ready?..... January 1975! :-) >>> >>> >>> TRUE! :-) My wife was the attending nurse to the Secretary and >>> because she was so kind to her, the Secretary gave her this bottle of >>> Port and it sort of got lost as we moved from one side of our country >>> to the other 26 years ago and it never got opened, but lay in a wine >>> rack until this evening.:-) >>> >>> Big question between us was ....... "do you think it's still OK?" >>> "You go first." " No you try a sip!" I of course being the head of >>> the family, well OK for this taste testing moment only :-) I tried it >>> and it was fine.... 31 years after my wife was presented with the >>> bottle.:-) Actually it was very good! :-) >>> >>> Now of course if you should not ever hear from me again you'll know >>> it wasn't OK! ;-) >>> >>> But it tasted excellent. Unfortunately it does seem kind of a crime >>> to have had this bottle these many years and now we have to continue >>> drinking it until it's gone. :-( Oh well what the hell, I think I can >>> suffer through it to the end! ;-) >>> >>> ted >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" > ? The Wall Street Journal > http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS! General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog