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- Sat Mar 27, 2021 10:53 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
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Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
It's expensive because it seems pretty rare It's only rare because the sales guy got carried away and sold it off cheap to the French, leaving the quinta with just 18 bottles. That scarcity then morphed into the idea that it was very special, but I've had it twice and was not impressed. The first b...
- Sat Mar 20, 2021 10:54 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
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Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
I've been buying LBV recently - a dozen Niepoort 2016
- Where have the years gone? 2016 LBVs already....
- Where have the years gone? 2016 LBVs already....
- Tue Mar 16, 2021 10:28 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
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Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
Quick tally: I currently have 140 magnums of vintage port, the oldest being an 1897 Graham.
- Mon Mar 01, 2021 3:29 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
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Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
I've not got a note on the Hooper '85, but the minor players of that vintage have a very poor track record..
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:04 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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Re: What have you opened this week?
Croft 66
A light wine for a '66, but quite pleasant nonetheless. Score 6-5
A light wine for a '66, but quite pleasant nonetheless. Score 6-5
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:39 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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1963 Dow
Like other 63's finding a serene plateau now. Am I imagining it, or does the aroma strengthen when a VP reaches this stage?
Anyway, a lovely indulgent quaff - score 9-9
Like other 63's finding a serene plateau now. Am I imagining it, or does the aroma strengthen when a VP reaches this stage?
Anyway, a lovely indulgent quaff - score 9-9
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:27 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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'77 Warre's. W77 remains the most frequently seen VP on the UK auction circuit. My general impression is of a good but not stellar VP, nothing particularly stands out about it. As to maturity, when I opened a couple of magnums for my birthday in 2017, I noted that they were way too young - my note ...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 7:33 am
- Forum: Port Forum
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Re: What Port(s) have you purchased this week?
Yet more firewood - this time containing a dozen Warre 2008 LBV - my first purchase this year. Aside from burning them, there's nothing you can do with those open fronted wooden presentation boxes once you've taken the bottle out. It seems a terrible waste, not to mention an expense I'd rather save....
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:54 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
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Croft 91 LBV
When did Croft LBVs go unfiltered? This one has just a pinch of gritty sediment, so clearly got the full treatment. Despite that, is in reasonably good order.
When did Croft LBVs go unfiltered? This one has just a pinch of gritty sediment, so clearly got the full treatment. Despite that, is in reasonably good order.
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:27 am
- Forum: Port Forum
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Oh to pay $13 for a 1977 Got me looking to see the least I've ever paid for a '77.. An odd Dalva was once bought for £10 in 2007, and in 2006 an eight bottle stash of Offley cost me £13.35 each. Anyway.. Calem '94 First VP of the year. OK, but very young, a bit closed, and not a huge amount of body...
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:50 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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Weird in every respect - the asymmetric bottle shape with it's drip stop flared neck, a tapered cork and a paper thin wax capsule that is prone to cracking and curling (I've re-waxed most of mine)
Whoever designed that was re-inventing the wheel..
Whoever designed that was re-inventing the wheel..
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:51 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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the little plastic thing that protects the bottle from scraping on my metal racking I gave up on those in very short order - if you neatly wrap the horizontal metal bar on the rack with a small piece of 2" wide silver duct tape (sometimes marketed as 'Duck' tape) the bottle is protected from s...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 11:15 am
- Forum: Port Forum
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I have a stash of these, but haven't opened one for nearly ten years now. Mine were bottled in 1973.
The bottling date is normally in the middle of the label in small black text over the brown label, so easy to miss.
The bottling date is normally in the middle of the label in small black text over the brown label, so easy to miss.
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 3:22 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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There's also the non-vintage port I drink at home..I love how Tom has to add this caveat because he also drinks a bit of Port with others!
In total, I've consumed about eight dozen bottles of port this year.
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 9:10 am
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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I am on course to drink exactly 48 bottles of VP at home for the 10th year running. Two bottles now left for this year - a Niepoort '78 which I'm going to decant this evening, leaving just a Cockburn '60 to finish the year off.
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 11:25 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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I try to avoid re-visiting the same VP more than once a year, to maintain diversity..I’ve had it 6 times over the past year. It’s not getting better. Drink now.
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 8:55 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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Re: What have you opened this week?
1977 Delaforce VP. It’s, uh, pleasant. Past it’s best, drink up if you own them. I've had this six times over the past twelve years - the early notes are poor, but the trend has been upward. My last note from April '17 reads 'light and slightly sweet - very fine drinking' It's dotage looks much bet...
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:12 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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'86 is a light but very clean vintage, which gives it away to a degree. '87 is much beefier and the '88's all have a very distinctive, and not very attractive earthiness on the palate.I also opened a 1986 Dow's Quinta d. Bomfim VP. Very lovely and elegant
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 2:23 pm
- Forum: Port Forum
- Topic: What have you opened this week?
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1980 Warre
Not quite fully mature yet, but a lot closer than it was five years ago. It's a strong player, as are all the Symington 80's - but a bit thin on the ground compared to adjacent vintages. Score 7-8
Not quite fully mature yet, but a lot closer than it was five years ago. It's a strong player, as are all the Symington 80's - but a bit thin on the ground compared to adjacent vintages. Score 7-8
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:41 am
- Forum: Port Forum
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Re: What have you opened this week?
Harveys 1954
Believed to be a Malvedos wine - lovely juice, but absurdly young and immature - would easily pass as a '94!
Score 8-9
Marking the rest of the stash as code R : Reserve stock..
Believed to be a Malvedos wine - lovely juice, but absurdly young and immature - would easily pass as a '94!
Score 8-9
Marking the rest of the stash as code R : Reserve stock..