Port and Roaring Forties Cheese

Port and Roaring Forties Cheese – Episode #326

October 3, 2007

Gary tastes some Vintage Port from Portugal and tastes it along with his favorite Blue Cheese the classic and elegant Roaring Forties.

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“Love port. Nice episode. Mighty tempted to pick up some of the Dow ‘…” by Phredd
“mike tyson’s punch-out by far. I always hated glass joe and don flami…” by Chris Lotz
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Wines tasted in this episode:

1983 Warre’s Vintage PortVintage Port
1980 Graham’s PortVintage Port
1994 Dow’s PortVintage Port

Cheese mentioned in todays episode.

Roaring Forties Blue

If you’d like additional help with the above item or would just like to know a little bit more, please email Justin Novello ( justin@winelibrary.com ).

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October 3, 2007

Grapedigger
I LOVE PORTs..
QOTD: BIG BRAIN for NINTENDO DS..amusing and a exercises well your grey cells
Cheers
October 3, 2007

Stu
QOTD: Gotta be Tecmo Bowl. Good to see you in a more rockin’ mood.
October 3, 2007

Ferrigno
QOTD: MMMMMMM SMASH BROS MELEE!!!!! I love sports games, FIFA, Madden, etc.

Great Show Gary!! haven’t tried vintage port yet, but I can’t stand the alcohol of regular port…
October 3, 2007

lenny
I have been waiting for an episode on Port. Now one for Sherry. Next time explain some of the differences in the types – Tawny, etc.

It would help to do some affordable ones also. Not that these are not, I just don’t spend that much on them.

Too old for Nintendo. My girls had a Sonic – Hedgehog. Great fun!!
October 3, 2007

WineGuyAtl
Love ports! Thanks for the show. I will be putting one away for my newborn daughter’s future big days! Anyone got a shotgun I couls borrow?

QOTD: Donkey Kong – of course! It takes me back to the days spending hours at 7-11 with one quarter. Ah, thegood ‘ol days.

Guy (a.k.a. GlaM)
October 3, 2007

Capt M
Remarkable episode, Gary. I LOVE port!!! Thanks so much for openning such remarkable bottles for today’s show (for us). I appreciate that. I wonder what Mr. Sasha thinks about you openning such appreciable and rare bottles. QOTD: The Legend of Zelda and the Ocarina of Time!! I went through the whole journey, prodly.
October 3, 2007

portman
mmmmmmmm. Port.

I have also found that an open bottle of port will last a long time too. Been sipping from a bottle that I opened in March, and it there has been no loss in quality.

QOTD: I had a lot of laughs getting the snot kicked out of me by my (at the time) young son in James Bond. My favorite game was Mario Golf though. That was a game that a non-video gamer could do OK at without looking really bad.

Mike
October 3, 2007

Insane Anglo Warlord
Hey, my comments are finally showing up! They’ve been disappearing into the ether all week. I thought maybe WLTV had it out for me or something.

QOD: Raiders of the Lost Ark, for the Atari 2600. Hey, it was the shiznit in 1982 and I never had a Nintendo.

Aussie blue cheese? So I’m thinking it ships okay.

If I really wanted to, I’ve got a few episodes’ worth of comments to catch up on, but I don’t want Gary e-yelling at me.

Here’s to #10 bringing home the bacon this weekend.

-E
October 3, 2007

Deb
Gary,

You make it sound like part of the reason Port is so expensive is that it is cellared. Ports are released by the producer relatively early, and mostly cellared by the consumer. The best marketing strategy imaginable.
October 3, 2007

Dale Cruse
QOTD: I love my Wii! Does that count? It’s made by Nintendo!
October 3, 2007

Chris
Long time lurker. Had to answer the QOTD — no contest, Mike Tyson’s Punch Out
October 3, 2007

Jesse (PatsFan) G.
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QOTD: How can one choose between countless hours of Dragon Warrior and the Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start that is Contra!
October 3, 2007

DulaMae
QOTD: Mario Kart is my favorite Nintendo game, I am pretty terrible at video games.
October 3, 2007

Grant
QOTD: tooooo many to mention. Of all time though Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Great show today I wish I had 90 bones to buy that Dow’s
October 3, 2007

brookhouser
QOTD: how could you not love the Legend of Zelda….all time greats
October 3, 2007

CUSE WINO
QOTD- Gotta be Mario Bros

Strange you did this topic today. I just got a bottle of 1983 Vintage Port from Cachao from my Grandmothers house that just sold and wondered about the year. Glad to hear it was a pretty good one. Will crack this open at the end of my career as well.

By the way, the camera and the new lighting (sorry, professional camera man here) are awesome. You and the “set” look great. Very nice job.
October 3, 2007

thepiratedoc
QOTD:Super Mario Bros. Had to lie to my parents regularly about homework to go next door and play!
Port – have always had the prune juice meets nyquil experience, but believe it was due to piss poor selection based on zero knowledge. Thanks for a little port education.
October 3, 2007

Jon K
QOTD: Tough one, but I’ll go with either RBI Baseball or TecmoBowl. You just can’t beat Clay Mathews on defense.
October 3, 2007

JonE
Classic pairing show, its hard to impress upon people how enjoyable port and cheese are if they’ve never tried. Pure luxury, and Roaring Forties is killer stuff.

QOTD: Metroid without a doubt on and on, getting lost in the repetitive stages. Oh the memories
October 3, 2007

Zach
Nice episode. I’m shocked but excited to hear there’s value in vintage port. Now I just need to get a better paying job

QOTD: Can’t pick just one… Super Mario Bros. 1, Zelda 1, Punch Out & Tecmo Bowl are near the top of the list.
October 3, 2007

Kenneth A
Great episode, ports are exciting and confusing!

QOTD: Bubble Bobble

I’m a bit ashamed to admit it, but I scored some really cheap ‘port’ about a year ago just to have some fun with, and boy was it terrible. The first bottle was corked, and the next bottle wasn’t much better. On a side note my room mate at the time drank the corked cheapo port and didn’t bat an eye. The discount put it down to about the price of ‘2 buck chuck’ and the hefty alcohol content of port made for some good times…

Is this sort of markdown and clearance typical of the port industry? A bad batch just gets sold on the cheap to college kids looking to get drunk?
October 3, 2007

Marc
QOTD: Baseball Stars. Everybody except me and my best friend at the time (7,8 years old) was playing RBI baseball, but we discovered this one that was superior and incredibly addictive. High quality for its time.
October 3, 2007

E-Rock
Mikey T’s Punch Out…. No doubt!

I have not had Porto in a while. I’m going to have to pick some up.
October 3, 2007

vange
I LOVE ports, I have a lot cellaring, but in the meantime I do enjoy some nice crusted ports and LBVs to pass the time while my VPs mature. I do find that decanting them for 24 hours is the way to go. It really does soften them and takes the sting out of the high ABV.

SUPER Tecmo Bowl (by far #1), Ninja Gaiden series, Castlevania series. Those were/are my favs.
October 3, 2007

Jeff
QOTD – Dragon Warrior