Question about Port?

Get a stopper from Willie Sonoma or some such place. Cover the left over port with a nitrogen
blanket. It will keep in the frig for several months like that. Don't decant it, even if it old. It
doesn't need it. Cheers, Kent

al said:

I have a nice bottle of Port that I'd quite like a glass of - however, it's quite an expensive
bottle and I'm the only one who drinks it. Once opened, how long should it be kept for? It's a
bottle with a cork, not a screw top, so difficult for me to re-seal it well.

al

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I have a nice bottle of Port that I'd quite like a glass of - however,

it's

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quite an expensive bottle and I'm the only one who drinks it. Once

opened,

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how long should it be kept for? It's a bottle with a cork, not a screw

top,

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so difficult for me to re-seal it well.

Once opened, it should be consumed fairly quickly. Pour it into a smaller bottle so that there is as
little air in it as possible....this will help extend it's life.

Stace

al said:

I have a nice bottle of Port that I'd quite like a glass of - however, it's quite an expensive
bottle and I'm the only one who drinks it. Once opened, how long should it be kept for? It's a
bottle with a cork, not a screw top, so difficult for me to re-seal it well.

There are nine different kinds of port... which one do you mean? No one will be able to give you a
meaningful answer in the absence of any information.

Generally, opened wood-matured ports will keep for much longer than bottle-matured ones. For
example, opened (and stoppered) bottles of real aged tawny ports will keep for weeks and even months
in the fridge, retaining most of their quality; vintage ports, on the other hand, need to be
consumed in a day or three, especially as they need to be decanted, owing to a lot of deposit -
otherwise they will start to resemble a much lower quality Late-Bottled Vintage or Vintage Character
ports very fast.

Victor

al said:

I have a nice bottle of Port that I'd quite like a glass of - however, it's quite an expensive
bottle and I'm the only one who drinks it. Once opened, how long should it be kept for? It's a
bottle with a cork, not a screw top, so difficult for me to re-seal it well.

al

I keep it refrigerated and just keep it towards the back where it's colder. A cork seals better than
a screw top.

I've had port stay good for over a month this way. :-)

Good stuff!

K.
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al said:

I have a nice bottle of Port that I'd quite like a glass of - however, it's quite an expensive
bottle and I'm the only one who drinks it. Once opened, how long should it be kept for? It's a
bottle with a cork, not a screw top, so difficult for me to re-seal it well.

Wait to open it when you are on a crying jag... that should make your question moot. I mean if the
booze is worth drinking then drink it, otherwise donate it to some homeless boozer who will truly
appreciate the gesture.

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Once opened, it should be consumed fairly quickly. Pour it into a smaller bottle so that there is
as little air in it as possible....this will help extend it's life.

Stace

How quick is fairly quickly? A couple of days, weeks ... months?

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Get a stopper from Willie Sonoma or some such place. Cover the left over port with a nitrogen
blanket. It will keep in the frig for several months like that. Don't decant it, even if it old.
It doesn't need it. Cheers, Kent

It's a 1982 vintage. Nothing to blow the world away, but no £5 plonk either 😉

a

I've got 63 and 70 ports sitting around I have done that preservation technique with, without any
adverse effect. Port is high in ETOH, so it lasts longer than 12% red wine without falling apart.
However, if you want to preserve the wine, cover it with the nitrogen blanket, as I said before. The
product I use is called "Private Reserve" Wine Preserver. The most conservative approach would be to
put the remaining port in a small pharmacy bottle, that you fill to the top. Then, however, you
should probably decant it first. Cheers, Kent

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Get a stopper from Willie Sonoma or some such place. Cover the left over port with a nitrogen
blanket. It will keep in the frig for several months like that. Don't decant it, even if it old.
It doesn't need it. Cheers, Kent

It's a 1982 vintage. Nothing to blow the world away, but no £5 plonk either 😉

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How quick is fairly quickly? A couple of days, weeks ... months?

Given my experience, a week or two, max. YMMV..... Stace