Talk:Port (wine)

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This should be moved to Port (wine), no? I have only heard Portuguese people call it 'Port wine'. - Any thoughts on this, Louise? Ro Thorpe 15:54, 2 April 2008 (CDT)

strange Port characteristic

When I lived in London I occasionally drank after-dinner port with a trendy 'Merkin who worked at Christies. Sometimes he had bottles of *really* old port. I would drink it and then become aware of something strange in my mouth like very soft chewing gum. It was apparently a by-product of old port. What the devil is it? Hayford Peirce 15:27, 2 April 2008 (CDT)

Sorry, can't help there, & it's years since I drank any. Ro Thorpe 15:34, 2 April 2008 (CDT)

I am thinking that it is sediment, and the port would have needed to be decanted--the sediment is a mixture of various proteins and tartaric crystals that would have settled over a very, very long time. Clearly I have not had port that was that aged because I would like to experience this myself! Louise Valmoria 15:51, 2 April 2008 (CDT)

Hi, Louise! Yes, it's clearly a sediment of some sort. As I recall, I just sort of chewed it for a while, then swallowed it. In a gentleman's club, I imagine, when they break out a last bottle of Founder's Cockburn 1874 after dinner, they decant it carefully and this gummy stuff never shows up. I was drinking it in 1968 at my friend's flat and I simply can't remember what the dates of the wine were. I imagine it was at least 20 to 30 years old at a minimum.... Hayford Peirce 16:42, 2 April 2008 (CDT)