[Leica] WAS: Party pics and such... NOW: PORT! ;-)

[nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts)]

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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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