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Dr. Edward Peters

 

Updated 26 dec 2012

 

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Gertrud: Would you like a cup of tea, mother-in-law?

  

Mother-in-law: Thank you my sweet. I'd rather have a glass of port.

Gertrud (1964)

 

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Catherine: Where are your sons?

 

Henry II: They're locked in the cellar. The royal children are aging along with the royal port.

The Lion in Winter (1968)

 

 

The Vintage Port Site

 

My worst

(not my only, but my worst) experience

with corked wine:

Thursday,

August 16, 2007

1991 Robert Mondavi

Cabernet Sauvignon

$ 79.95 (several

years ago).

 

I like screw-top bottles!

Dessert Wines


For just over two years (January 1999 to February 2001), Dr. Peters wrote the dessert wine column for Gilbert! Magazine, sharing space with no less a wine expert than Hilaire Belloc (who happened to be dead at the time.) Peters' essays appeared in more or less the following order:

 

 


 

Briefly Noted

 

Godfrey Spence, The Port Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide (1997)

 

     A delightful read, beautifully laid out. An excellent first book on port, though long-time devotees doubtless will consult it regularly. It could have been a smidge longer, as Spence obviously draws on a vast storehouse of port knowledge, but that's a small criticism. The book greatly enhances one's understanding of, and enjoyment of, fine porto.

 

 

 

Some Notable Quotes on Port

 

     It [is] much more sensible to offer yourself for admiration because you had drunk three bottles of port at a sitting than to offer yourself for admiration (as Lady Grove does) because you think it right to say "port wine" while other people think it right to say "port." G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, 1 February 1908.

 

     I could tell [my cousin] that all the wickedness of that time was like the spirit they mix with the pure grape of the Douro, heady stuff full of dark ingredients; it at once enriched and retarded the whole process of adolescence as the spirit checks the fermentation of the wine, renders it undrinkable, so that it must lie in the dark, year in, year out, until it is brought up at last fit for the table. Charles Ryder, in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1944).

 

     "No. He only drinks one glass of port a day." Mrs. Railton-Bell, demolishing a defense suggested for Maj. Pollock against a minor morals charge, in Separate Tables (1958).

 

     James: "Let's see, now. Eighty-year-old brandy, beluga caviar, and port, Grahams 1928." Siegfried: "James, you've struck gold this time." All Creatures Great and Small. by James Herriot.

 

     Miss Freneau: "We had martinis before dinner, white wine with the fish, red wine with the main course, champagne with the desert, cognac with the coffee, and port after dinner."

     Mr. Eckland: "Sounds great!" ...Father Goose (1964).

 

     "I think another glass of port won't harm us." Aunt Gussie to Miss Melvyn, My Brilliant Career (1979).

 

 

Wormold: "On this auspicious occasion…"

 Milly: "Spell it."

 Wormold: "Oh, not after a couple of bottles of Krug ’52."  Our Man in Havana (1960).

 

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Port Vintage Chart

from here: http://www.intowine.com/portvin.html

 

Vintage
 

Rating
 

Drinkability
 

2000

Classic

Hold

1997

Outstanding

Hold

1995

Outstanding

Hold

1994

Classic

Hold

1992

Outstanding

Drink or Hold

1991

Outstanding

Drink or Hold

1987

Very Good

Drink or Hold

1986

Good

Drink or Hold

1985

Classic

Drink or Hold

1984

Good

Drink or Hold

1983

Outstanding

Drink or Hold

1982

Good

Drink or Hold

1980

Very Good

Drink or Hold

1979

Average

Drink

1978

Good

Drink

1977

Classic

Drink or Hold

1976

Average

Drink

1975

Good

Drink

1974

Average

Drink

1972

Average

Drink

1970

Classic

Drink or Hold

1969

Average

Drink

1968

Average

Drink

1967

Very Good

Drink

1966

Outstanding

Drink or Hold

1965

Good

Drink

1964

Good

Drink

1963

Classic

Drink or Hold

1962

Good

Drink

1961

Good

Drink

1960

Very Good

Drink

1958

Good

Drink

1957

Very Good

Drink

1955

Outstanding

Drink

1954

Very Good

Drink

1952

Good

Drink

1950

Very Good

Drink

1948

Classic

Drink or Hold

1947

Outstanding

Drink

1945

Classic

Drink or Hold

1942

Very Good

Drink

1938

Good

Drink

1935

Classic

Drink or Hold

1934

Outstanding

Drink

1931

Classic

Drink or Hold

1927

Classic

Drink or Hold

1920

Very Good

Drink

1917

Very Good

Drink

1912

Classic

Drink or Hold

1911

Good

Drink

1908

Outstanding

Drink

1904

Outstanding

Drink

1900

Outstanding

Drink

 

More Ratings:

 

Decanter.com

 

Churchill's Reviews

 

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Sauternes Vintage Chart

from here: http://www.intowine.com/sautvin.html

Vintage

Rating

Drinkability

2003

Outstanding

Drink or Hold

2002

Outstanding

Drink or Hold

2001

Classic

Hold

2000

Very Good

Drink or Hold

1999

Outstanding

Drink or Hold

1997

Outstanding

Drink or Hold

1996

Very Good

Drink or Hold

1995

Very Good

Drink or Hold

1992

Average

Drink

1991

Average

Drink

1990

Classic

Drink

1989

Classic

Drink or Hold

1988

Outstanding

Hold

1987

Average

Drink

1986

Outstanding

Hold

1985

Very Good

Drink

1984

Below Average

Drink

1983

Classic

Drink or Hold

1982

Average

Drink

1981

Good

Drink

1980

Good

Drink