This is my first post and am a neophyte in understanding wine. However, am learning some and would love to get recommendations as to a good Porto Wine. Would love something directly from Portugal.
What suggestions would you have? And, considering there may not be a lot of local choices to find this, is there a thought on a good online supplier?
Thank you all for your help in this.
Where do you live? Are there any big/good wine stores near you?
Do you mean Port wine from the Douro, the fortified stuff? Any idea of which style you are interested in?
North of Atlanta, GA. Have not seen a lot but, again, brand new to this.
Have had some from Chateau Elon. Wife is more of the connoisseur than I am. I guess, looking for recommendations as to a good start.
Port wine traditionally was a sweet wine fortified with alcohol and coming in about 18% alcohol. Magnificent stuff but not a table wine.
Table wines have been improving for some years and can easily be paired with food.
Yes, my understanding, a sipping wine.
Just if entertaining would like to have something that has a rich flavor. Understanding that each person has different preferences, would like to have a starting point and then can experiment with others.
Also, this sipping wine, is there, or are there, food options that are recommended?
I like ports, and so does my wife.
That said, the best I’ve had, aside from a 40-year in Porto, are not Portugese.
I like Penfolds Grandfather Port, and just yesterday I had a Scott Harvey Forte
from Amador County. It was Fantastic!
That said, I’d start with the inexpensive ones, Late Bottled Ports are good and
reasonably priced…then experiment from there. The cost vs tastiness curve is
just like it is on any other wine. You’ll have to pay a lot more to get a noticable
increase in tastiness.
Enjoy!
Wide range. Aged whites, tawnies, colheita, ruby, LBV, vintage are some of the most common. Vintage and single quinta wines generally need bottle age, sometimes a great deal of age. Filtered LBV are drunk as is although unfiltered ones improve with age. Aged whites, tawnies,and colheita are aged in cask so are bottled ready to drink. Vintage, LBV, and rubies emphasize ripe fruit while the cask aged wine are more caramel and nutty.