For The Love Of Port

Have Zachy's ship to a storage facility them then the facility can ship it to you?

Nice work Eric! My cellar at the office is very utilitarian, the racking is largely made from leftovers/castoff racking that my brother collected over the years, but one thing he insisted on was proper insulation & vapor barrier for the room. I've built a few cellars with him (13+ years ago, he'...

Nice - those were appealing, especially because there were a few so I thought they might go reasonably, but I had to draw a line somewhere before I got myself into trouble. :)

If I added up Eric's numbers correctly he spent ~6K for 1000 bottles buying used racking/refrigeration, and I think he bought very well, that's still ~$7 bottle.

The Cellar Trellis product that Eric bought used is ~5-7 bottle/delivered (I just googled it).

Start checking craiglist. :)

Not exactly a fair comparison. :)

OOF! I didn't 'win' a thing - competition was pretty heavy and was willing to go far deeper than I was. Sorry I couldn't make this easier to read...I really wish this site had image hosting. A negative % in the % off retail data means an item went OVER retail - calculated against the result inclusiv...

Thanks David. I googled and found he worked at Corney & Barrow and didn't see any Madeira for sale there - did I miss something? Regarding the Blandy Verdehlo 1968 - I basically agree with his score and comments, I'm working on a bottle now and it's high toned and singing. It might be the bottle...

I wish you guys would post in here more - this is starting to become embarrassing. :oops: Cross posting this from the (quiet) marketplace auction discussion: http://www.fortheloveofport.com/ftlopforum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=38177&p=122115#p122115 I won 3 lots by myself and another 3 with anothe...

I won 3 lots by myself and another 3 with another forum member (I'll let him out himself if he wants). I have to say that having a partner is great - we can split lots that might be larger than desired solo and/or we don't compete, we also can compare notes on what we feel market value is, what is d...

This past Thursday we had another Madeira night at my place. The evenings theme was to compare some of the sub $100 NV options. We were also celebrating the close of the Christie's Online auction that ended that afternoon where I'd scored some cool wines that have me very excited. The H&H Verdel...

Moses - That's not my cellar. Unfortunately I don't have that much space at home to dedicate to a cellar. My cellar is a very utilitarian space built out in a spare office in my companies offices and I have racking for a 3-400 bottles at home and plans to build a real cellar in a few years when we u...

A buddy of mine who is an investment planner, when I mentioned the rate, told me there would be a bounce before we hit parity and sure enough there's the bounce...the day after he told me that FWIW. Where it leads now is anyone's guess but the published expert consensus seems to be that not only is ...

The bottle on WB? I look at it like this. A vintage 1950-1960 Leacock Sercial is a $200-350 bottle on WS - call it ~275. A NV IMO is worth maybe 20% less so now we're at $220, it's an auction so I certainly want to pay less than this theoretical retail, at least 10%, hopefully 20%, so, using 15% off...

I think you've captured the essence of it Eric. I have friends that brew actively and generally their product ranges from good to excellent. The 2 guys I know who make wine well...uh, it's palatable but there's plenty of decent inexpensive wine that's far superior to what they're making. Another fri...

I did run out of space but lucky for me my brother is in the business of building custom wine cellars and he built me a cellar space in an unused office at my business....somehow about 1000 of his bottles ended up in there too. [shrug.gif] If anybody in NY/NJ/CT needs a wine cellar: http://custom-wi...

Yah it was no great deal by any means, only slightly below retail when all said/done. I figured the shipping is negligible since a bunch of the Ridge I won is multiple bottle/mag lots.

Did you buy it? :)

Sure thing Miguel. I'm sure a ride from a train station could be arranged as well. Both Marco and I basically 'have' to drive close by to a train station reachable by Amtrak or Metro North.

I 'won' these: 2143 1988 D'Oliveira's terrantez 2 $194 $170 2149 1958 Barbeito malvasia 1 $309 $225 I bid on but didn't win: 2144 1977 D'Oliveira's terrantez 2 $302 $300 2150 1982 Barbeito boal 2 $242 $300 My major 'score' for that auction was a bunch of Ridge Monte Bello of which I won 7 lots plus ...

Auction is 700-800 incl premium

12/28/2014: $786.00
3/22/2014: $714.00
3/14/2013: $545.00

5/11/2013: $680.00
3/20/2013: $516.80

Gary is correct - the bottle at Rare was $950.