Don't worry ! I knew you were kidding (could not be otherwise <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />).

But I never heard about opening Port bottles the way you described. Amazing .... I will have to ask around .....

I won't try it with my old Port bottles (almost as old as I am ...).
I open one, from time to time, when I have good friends, who like Port wine, around me.
Once open, a bottle of Port MUST be emptied at the end of the dinner. Otherwise, it will become oxidized the next day and taste quite differently.
So if we are not enough to drink it at the aperitif, we finish the bottle at the end of the meal, along some Roquefort cheese.

Alain

(Geezzz.... now, I'm hungry ..... and drooling on my desk .... <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />: )