Port recommendations

I need some advice. I'd like to buy a friend a nice bottle of port but don't know where to start. Not too pricey though? (this is where food an drink should come in handy)

My favourite port is Penfolds Grandfather's port.

However it is next to impossible to get hold of in the UK...

OR TRY NEIPOORT PETRE'S vintage

http://www.steephillwines.com/index.php?set_products=1&s_colour_name=Fortified&

Third one down, if you find a really nice wine shop (this is a local one to me) they can generally give sound advice.

My old Cambridge College port was fantastic! Alas, not available outside of the buttery!

Better question - what's your budget? That might help define what sort of thing to go for.

I only cook with port. I wouldn't dream of drinking it.

Sorry that was not very helpful was it.

It's nice with a bit of cheese at Xmas. Only time I would ever drink it really.

Or as a cheeky vimto....now that is yummy! But any port will do for that, not the expensive vintage variety!

helencb wrote:

It's nice with a bit of cheese at Xmas. Only time I would ever drink it really.

Or as a cheeky vimto....now that is yummy! But any port will do for that, not the expensive vintage variety!

Bloody cheeky vimto. How chavlike are you!

I was thinking up to about £15 . he's a lovely perosn but not buying a full on vintage!

Bluebloodedscouser wrote:

helencb wrote:

It's nice with a bit of cheese at Xmas. Only time I would ever drink it really.

Or as a cheeky vimto....now that is yummy! But any port will do for that, not the expensive vintage variety!

Bloody cheeky vimto. How chavlike are you!

I would never make one, wine all the way for me, but you forget, I work in Sunny Scunny and this local knowledge creeps in occasionally.

In that case, head to good old M&S. Their standard "Vintage" is great, very quaffable and nicely presented.

Alternatively Dow's or Graham's Late Bottle Vintage (LBV) will be fine, or, if you can find it, Dow's First Reserve Estate.

All of those should be fairly easy to find without the need to treck far and wide. If you fancy something a bit different but still in price then 1991 Fonseca Guimaraens will really hit the spot!

I love all port.....

Mmm, me too, I once bought a cracking bottle of Vintage Port for a friend for a wedding present - I used a shop in Edinburgh, can't remember its name but I wanted a bottle from the year the couple were born.

They got divorced, I wonder what happened to that bottle....?

Not Valvona and Crolla by any chance?

I could spend hours in there...!

It wasn't.....I could take you to the shop - it was in the street behind Princes Street (not Rose Street but the big road).....still can't remember the name and it is beginning to bug me now!

the Royal mile?

or the other way....?

The other way.....George Street, may be???

not sure. V&C is Leith Walk, not too far, and in the right direction

If you have not been, go! It's yummy! I believe they have a separate cafe/restaurant somewhere in EH as well although not been to that.

Read about V&C in the Scotland street books but never been. Don't actually venture east that often, nothing against the place, just don't have many friends still living through that way that we keep in touch with.

Love South Queensferry though