Sainsburys LBV Port - just say no..

if that's the stuff I'm thinking off, it's utter fucking bilge.

 

I do find myself treating it like red wine i.e. open a bottle -> drink
a bottle.

 

I shall lay in a bottle of something a bit out of the ordinary port-wise
next week from 'Champion' (no not you). They have stuff you don't see
here. Very acceptable with a late night snack of a few chestnuts roast
wrapped in foil in the log burning stove. Tasting notes will follow.


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Well Port doesn't keep. It should always be finished promptly on
opening.

 

Heh. I had to stop buying it frequently for that very reason.

I restrict myself to 3-4 decent bottles a year now.

 

What the hell did you expect? I mean *some* of the upper end Sainsbury's
Whiskey is acceptable, but there are far better ones out there at better
prices IME.

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I've never been able to find a decent port in a French
supermarket,mainly because they view it as an apertif, so they tend to
shy away from the rich dark heavy stuff that is proper English port.

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Ah, but if you recall, I am a peasant who likes tawny. They have a large
range of armagnacs though.
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If you can stretch to just over £11 then try Grahams Late Bottled
Vintage 1997/8 .... this stuff is very fine indeed, heavyish in style.
A very good lighter styled port is Delaforce.

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Is there any other way to drink it?

Phil

 

I dunno. Something drinkable maybe?

 

Looking in totally the wrong place then.

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i tried a sample in-store. I couldn't finish the little plastic glass
of it. Disgusting supersweet muck.

 

apparently - get this! - some people put the cork back in the bottle
after they've taken it out.

I know! Unbelievable.

 

If it's Port it really does go off quite quickly

 

yeah, I know. Generally, I will drink a bottle over the space of a
week or so, but I have finished an entire bottle in one sitting far,
far too often.

 

I've not since I downed a bottle ontop of some Vodka, maybe Tequilla and
redbull as well I forget it was about five years ago.

Still, when it came up it tasted quite nice. I think Port makes the
best tasting vomit; when it's your own, someone else's I wouldn't be so
keen.

 

heheh. I haven't drink-related-vomitted for years and years and years,
but from memory, the worse puke is Pernod puke.

 

Gluhwein puke. Makes me want to puke just thinking about it.