For The Love Of Port

Marco D. wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:08 pm

Michael R wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:21 pm 1920 Cossart Malmsey

Legendary wine... hope it showed well.

Has been open for only 3 days yet - it clearly needs air. Was very good last night, but it feels like it is still in the improvement phase.

I want to drink it on the 31st - seems a good way to celebrate 2020 coming to a close.

1920 Cossart Malmsey

1922 D'Oliveiras Boal (no bottling date, seems like 199x bottling)
1937 D'Oliveiras Sercial (no bottling date, seems like 199x bottling)

1940 Welsh Sercial
1920 FV Malvazia

Berry Brothers & Rudd Finest Old Verdelho Solera 1851 (bottled 1973)

1895 D'Oliveiras Malvasia
1958 D'Oliveiras Boal
1940 Justino Sercial

Also bought a 1989 D'Oliveiras Malvasia 3-pack at WineBid. It appears 7 * 3-bottle lots were sold last Sunday.

1863 Barbeito Bual (RWC bottling, 10/2004) for my birthday

1865 Lomelino Old Verdelho Solera

1958 Cossart Gordon Bual
1956 Barbeito Sercial
NV Avery's Duke of Malmsey

I have a few open that I am enjoying now:
1845 Cossart Gordon Centennary Bual Solera Madeira
1954 Justino/VJH Verdelho
1969 d'Oliveiras Sercial
1971 HH Sercial
1989 d'Oliveiras Sercial
1978 d'Oliveiras Terrantez

I have asked Edwin Vos of Christie's about the stenciled 1832s (AFAIK, Christie's is the main source of these). Here is what he shared: "The Acciaioly bottles you are referring to have been transferred from their original bottle to a new bottle as the owner was in doubt whether the original gla...

Hi Alan - the 1802 you are talking about had been in a decanter for about 5-6 months prior to you tasting it. It did, however, have a shriveled cork that just felt in during transport. Most likely, the cork had been allowing for at least some oxygen exposure for years. I would also point out that th...

As far as I know, there are two styles of the paper label, the one on the Andreas's picture being the less common one,
see below:

Mannie said that there were 94 bottles of the Pather produced in the 1989 bottling. I assume there were some older bottlings (the bottle sold at Sotheby's is very different from the 1989s), but I was never able to find any information on those.

AFAIK, the two most recent sales were: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/marcus-hiles-macallan-in-lalique-pappy-madeira-top-shelf-online/8e075654-d966-4dd8-8bd8-1e072c538b83?locale=en https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/wine/pather-1720-1-bottle-per-lot-6225925-details.aspx?from=salesumme...

1864 TTC Lomelino Boal
1977 Cossart Gordon Terrantez
1977 Blandy's Terrantez
1977 d'Oliveiras Terrantez

Broadbent says it is one of the top 10 wines of the century: http://www.qrw.com/features/top-ten-win ... ntury.html

The 71 d'Oliveiras T is my favorite of the bunch too!

Has anybody tasted their new 78 Terrantez?

Thank you - this is very helpful!