Dominic M. Symington's ( Wearing His WARRE'S 1670 Port Hat On This Visit ) White Port Long Drink !! His Recipe Given To Me ( Anthony TONY Quinn ) On October 18th, 2005 @ Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits, Northwest, 20008, Washington D.C.

This was a great visit with you Dominic! I had been selling and drinking WARRE'S ports for many years already, having started way back in the early 1980's : and so to finally meet you now was both a real treat and an honor. I have pictures of your visit with you porting ( pun intended after I quickly realized it as I typed it here ) a broad smile and a real sense of contentment. You even brought your own map of Portugal with the region of port on it and are showing me your location in one of the pictures.

Unfortunately I used my camera before the digital age and have not yet scanned these pictures. I will as they are quite good and do show you meeting and talking with at least one of our lucky customers at the time that just chanced to be in Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits  ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008, 202-363-4265  anthony.quinn@clevelandparkwines.com ) at the right time.

You were kind enough to sign my guest book and use one of the pages to include your recipe for a white port hot-weather summer thirst-quencher. Here it is :


                  WHITE PORT ( Using WARRE'S In This Case ) Long Drink !!


                  W/ Approx 50 / 50 white port & tonic water ( not too much ice ! )

                  Sprig Of Mint & Slice Of Lemon Rind ... This Is A Delicious Thirst-Quenching

                 Long Drink With A LOvely Balance Between The Richness Of The White Port

                And The Tartness Of The Tonic.  Enjoy!


     With Best Regards,   Dominic M. Symington

     An Anglo-Portuguese With A French Name!


     I have two cards from Dominic here :


     1) the WARRE'S 1670 Port card says :  Co-Owner / Executive Director with the address and an email address : warre@warre,com  www.warre.com

     2) Symington Family Estates card says : Director with Travessa Bardo de Forrester  4400-034 Vila Nova de Gaia PORTUGAL, Tel: +351 22 377 6300  and email : symington@symington.com.

     I will have to email you Dominic later today but now at 11:33PM it's time for me to go to bed at the end of this glorious Father's Day celebration of mine to get some rest and to continue working away on so many worthwhile projects of mine tomorrow. Cheers, thanks for the recipe, thanks for your visit , and thanks for the excellent ports that you make. We always have the 10-Year-Old Tawny OTIMA in the 500ml bottle in the store ready to sell to anyone that wants a very fine, great quality and appeal port to enjoy. Perfect now, too in this heat! Will have to order a case of the white port to sell as well. Cheers,  Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn   check out my podcast with Malcolm Riddle here on chatwine.