Taylor's, Fonseca, Croft and Delaforce report an excellent port harvest and drop heavy hints that they will declare 2007 as a vintage port year...

Janus-like, I look back, and forwards from an end of year pinnacle...

Forum: Wine Talk Posted By: M.Craig Post Time: 08-06-2007 at 09:06 PM

... individuals who are born in trophy vintage year for wine or port. If you were born in 1961 or 1966, you'd ... moms: in addition to checking the horoscope of a potential newborn baby, consider the vintage year ... I know some people who like to buy a gift for the birthday girl or boy of a vintage LIFE magazine from the year they were born, or a crazy t-shirt or other gimmicky item shouting out their age...

... a certain vintage, rather than just obliging with the old “that’s a fantastic year” phrase. What does ... a year ago, there were obviously distinct differences, and those differences all of a sudden made perfect sense. The term “classic vintage” gets thrown around a lot on the sales floor here ... between having tasted a few bottles from each vintage and having tasted numerous bottles, from every...

Investors in fine wine have enjoyed their best year for ten years, making returns of as much as 90 per cent on the most sought-after vintages. Chateau Lafite Rothchild 1998, one of the most actively traded wines, has soared in value from about £1,240 a case in January to £2,370 today — or from £103 a bottle to £198...

Investors in fine wine have enjoyed their best year for ten years, making returns of as much as 90 per cent on the most sought-after vintages. Chateau Lafite Rothchild 1998, one of the most actively traded wines, has soared in value from about £1,240 a case in January to £2,370 today — or from £103 a bottle to £198...

The approach of another New Year always makes one a little introspective and for those of us at Anne Amie that is particularly true. Every year is very dear to a winemaker as you only get so many vintages in your life  - just one a year. In every other profession you can remake and recreate everything as often as you want, but in agriculture you get one shot a year. On top of that, most of what...

In an earlier post I w(h)ined about why we were required to name our Methode Portagee* fortified wine something other than Port. Now I'd like to talk about the rest of it... This Pour't is made from Touriga Nacional grapes....

Voila, c'est fini...Toute l'équipe du pressoir, de la cuverie, et des débardeurs sont réunis...Les dernières caisses sont pesées et apportées au pressoir. A noter, la musique de la video est "Live" ( pas un montage, mais directement enregistrée), cette année encore, c'était Disco-Press ! L'année dernière , on venait d'avoir ...